Yeah agreed, surprising as I always thought of ECS as the king of VAG tuning and that it was a shame they're only US based with a small amount of their stock making it over here but it is quite dissapointing really.
haha never considered doing that actually, I will try my best to refrain from that approach
Well AC is staying for now... there was some confusion when it was booked and time restraints meant they're going to leave it for now, not that bothered as the bill is large enough already so
I might have a crack myself later in the year, just thought if I had to have it de-gassed they must as well do the whole thing. The idea of a blower and some ducting have entered my mind as replacement like this one
https://www.demon-tweeks.com/uk/demon-tweeks-in-line-blower-fans-242248/ so swapping a heavy front end 10kg unit that hurts temps and replacing with a 4 inch electric blower aimed directly at the driver, logistics of that is for another time however.
I still have not picked it up yet as I've been busy but its sat waiting currently for next weekend for me. Hopefully they made a note of total weight as I forgot to ask the other day over the phone.
Josh who set it up last time and who I ran into at Pembrey last year mentioned they cannot adjust the seat as it will hurt the integrity of the seat base so they've left it for now and advised to find some universal side mounts that will have far more extreme options in terms of height available. All air bags are now gone though, they mentioned they can leave the steering wheel one in but it would never go off as the front air bags work off the oem seat belt which is now gone so may as well ditch. I know what you're saying about air bags
but with a helmet no air bags is supposedly safer anyway and the amount of road miles will be very small until the car is caged with a harness anyway.
They've put the idea in my head of taking it racing, hillclimbs/sprints will definitely be on the cards for next year but they were mentioning they got have some good links in a few close to home series and can assist in getting to that point... would love to but budget is not there just yet, maybe in a couple of years. It will definitely be going in for a welded up roll cage however next year to meet regs for sprinting and they did mention they can ditch the oem seat mounts and weld in a new base thats custom fit for me so I can try and get it as far back and low as possible that is still drive-able for me and without having to re-engineer the entire pedal and steering wheel position.
I need to stop faffing about with my trying to find extra performance here and there and just focus on getting it to meet regulations, even if its slow in its class at least it is eligibile and being used rather than a fast car that sits on a private piece of land year in year out
So the focus right now and over the next 12 months will be only very cheap and free mods asside from repairs and maintenance to raise those funds which will be things like:
Build up better brake ducting
Remove any weight possible without cost that allows it to remain road legal
Any cheap/easy/free mods to allow better cooling (that actually work!)
Relocate battery
refurb 2nd set of wheels
try again to convert to solid top mounts and linear springs
Anything else is just not needed right now so I need to pull my finger out
Bit boring to have no pics I know but I have been reading and watching a lot of Julian Edgar recently on aerodynamics and would highly recommend to anyone, its made me realise just HOW MUCH can be improved on the golf and how many quite mainstream mods out there are probably hurting drag, IAT's, cooling and lift. He shows just how easy you can test this stuff yourself with about 50 quids worth of equipment, its pretty cool.