Sunset Red 1.4 TSI(TFSI) GT Sport - daily drive & track car

[rex]

Yup, I intend to solve the issues but if not I will just go like the last trip (a little bit slower and changing at 6000 RPM).
I may have misled you. I am not sure it is Cylinder No 4. I only know I might have issues on one cylinder but I am not sure yet which one.

[Hurdy]

Usually it has been cylinder 4 on the forums...furthest right as you look under the bonnet.

[rex]

I've cleaned my track wheels and tires and this is what I found:



I was really lucky because it did not cause a puncture. The screw is caught in the excess rubber collected from the track so no damage to the tire. I only went on the Hungaroring track so I am glad I collected this screw and not somebody actually racing over there.

This is one of the disadvantages of buying expensive track tires. If you manage to puncture them there are a lot of money lost...

[Top Cat]

Are they your new Direzza's ! i used to get quite a bit of tread beading with mine but not as much as that, i thought your car was a fair bit lighter than my GTI.
Perhaps i wasn't trying hard enough. 

[rex]

Well, It should be a little bit lighter than a GTI. But the rear should be identical...
Those are the rear tires and I always collect rubber with the rear tires. In fact, I have more rubber on the rear tires at the end of the track day than in the beginning  .

Maybe you didn't push hard and the rear tires never got warm enough to collect a lot of rubber...
Anyway... I don't think this is a good indication of how fast we are going. It might be that there is not much rubber on the track for us to collect...

[rex]

So, as I said before I like to work on the car when I have the time and here is my last update...

Because of the rollbar installation there were some estetic issues. First of all the rear seats came off and I had to do something about the space. Second of all the interior was trimmed to acommodate the roll bar. These gaps had to be covered.

Here are some photos...
Before:



After:



Before:



After:



As you can see now I have a very big trunk  .
Unfortunately I could not make the trunk at the same level because the piece sitting where the back seats sat is taken from a friends S3 (Adrian since some of you know him) and the S3 has a higher trunk due to the 4WD system. I trimmed the piece but this is as low as I could get. Anyway, this is good enough for me...

Before:



After:



Before:



After:



As you can see the carpet is not closed around the rollbar because I still want access to the rollbar nuts and bolts. I will probably use some velcro to bring the two pieces closer together.





So one step closer to having the car just the way I like it  .
Comments are welcomed and thanks for watching!

 

[Tfsi_Mike]

Fantastic touch Vlad 

[Hurdy]

Nice work. It is the finishing touches that make a car.

[Fcan_PT]

Great job! 

[rex]

Thank you very much guys! 

 

[fab5freddy]

Superb mate 

Love your attention to detail. Keep up the good work 

[rex]

Thank you  !

[rex]

So, yesterday the tests were finally finished. Spark plugs are ok, injectors are ok, camshaft is ok.
But, the mechanic found some issues when measuring the cylinders compression:

Cylinder No1 - 7,5 bar (I think bar is the measuring unit)
Cylinder No2 - 10 bar
Cylinder No3 - 10 bar
Cylinder No4 - 9,5 bar

So it looks like the valves (at least at Cylinder 1 and 4) are not working ok. I will clean them as soon as possible and than redo the test.

[fuscobal]

Took a look today with my mechanic in VW technical papers and it seems a difference of 3bar between cylinders is accepted !?!? That's quite weird so I read it 2 times to be sure !

[Hurdy]

Any guidelines as to what pressure they should be running. I'm sure when I had mine tested they were 175-180psi = 12.4bar  but it may be that mine run a higher pressure than yours?