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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #225 on: July 09, 2015, 02:17:54 pm »
Need to see how the car feels with a lot less weight up front. :happy2:

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #226 on: July 09, 2015, 02:20:02 pm »
Bonnet looks sweet :happy2: whats the plan for the washer jets then?

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #227 on: July 09, 2015, 05:14:56 pm »
Glad to see its all getting sorted man!  :happy2:

Bonnet looks awesome!

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #228 on: July 09, 2015, 07:57:08 pm »
I wish you can turn the page to these mishaps and move on to an happier string of events. :smiley:

Your Scirocco is just nuts. :notworthy: Pure diesel power! :drool:

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #229 on: July 15, 2015, 11:44:31 am »
Need to see how the car feels with a lot less weight up front. :happy2:
Haha, umm it feels more pointy although it's probably in my head. I also had my tracking re-done so that's probably it haha!

On it's own I don't imagine 10kg make much of a difference lol.
I would like to see how much it weighs now under a certain car without the rear seats and lighter wheels, brakes and the carbon bonnet. Probably not much difference really.

Bonnet looks sweet :happy2: whats the plan for the washer jets then?

Thanks mate :) No idea.. can't really do much with them. Gonna have to live without them for a while. outside of actually cutting the bonnet (no thanks) can't really do much.

Glad to see its all getting sorted man!  :happy2:

Bonnet looks awesome!

Thank you buddy :) appreciate the kind words, seems to be a marmite mod but everyone so far seems to like it!

I wish you can turn the page to these mishaps and move on to an happier string of events. :smiley:

Your Scirocco is just nuts. :notworthy: Pure diesel power! :drool:

Thank you :) I hope so too.

Happy events are better! Lol  :laugh:

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #230 on: July 15, 2015, 11:49:36 am »
Got the AC rad and crash surround sorted out yesterday night.

All stripped down.



You can see where the AC condensor was damaged and it punctured the core.
Luckily, the Intercooler was totally unmarked, and so was the water radiator. Although the IC wasn't damaged where it had bent/damaged/distored the AC condensor my intake temps were taking longer to recover and this seems to have been resolved now so I'm really happy about that as they're back to speedy recovery.

Put a new AC condensor on, pain to fit with the IC being so fat. Don't remember how alex did it so easily before.
New crash panel thing went on as well, so that was fun (not) getting everything to line up, but once it was done, you couldn't tell.
Only thing is I lost all my OEM stickers now :( so going to look at putting some cool racekor stickers on there instead.

Also had an issue where my coolant fan was catching on the boost pipe which was stopping it spinning, saw my temperature was rising a bit quickly for my liking (stayed at 90 on the gauge) but the polar was going slowly up past 90 which it never does, and smelt an electrical smell, which turned out to be the fan.
Did a bit of tweaking on the boost pipe which has now given me the clearance I needed so it spins freely.

Only thing left to do is re-gas the air con and enjoy the cooling breeze in my face rather than turbocharged hot air.


Did give the bonnet a bit of a polish, it wasn't too bad considering it came from spain (pablo got a bit happy with a machine polisher) but I just gave it a gentle polish and tried a coating we've had sat around for a while but haven't used.. migliore strata coating,
Not very impressed with it TBH so far, harder to apply than CQUK, very streaky... But we'll see how it lasts.






« Last Edit: July 15, 2015, 03:19:15 pm by xjay1337 »

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #231 on: July 16, 2015, 12:24:53 pm »
Looking good!  :happy2:

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #232 on: July 24, 2015, 10:35:33 am »
Thanks mate!

I can't remember if I mentioned that my little MTX Terminator amp (For my sub) blew up so my friend gave me a spare amp he had lying around..
On the plus side it is lovely and bassy, definitely better audio quality  than the MTX.

On the downside, well it's f00king massive. I did only get it fitted a few days ago, cos unbelievably my friend lost it (it's hardly easy to mis place!  :signLOL:)

2015-07-24_09-48-59 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr
« Last Edit: July 24, 2015, 04:07:30 pm by xjay1337 »

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #233 on: July 24, 2015, 10:39:39 am »
Yeah, you mentioned that some while ago. :smiley:

I bet you prefer to have better sound quality. :laugh:

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #234 on: July 24, 2015, 03:32:49 pm »
I do prefer the better sound quality but not the size of the stupid thing haha.

I'm going to get a smaller Hertz mono amp soon, and I'll probably get a newer/better Hertz 4ch amp as well for the door speakers. If th budget can stretch I'd love one of these...

http://www.amazon.com/Hertz-Audio-HDP5-5-Channel-Amplifier/dp/B009PBUC8U


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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #235 on: July 24, 2015, 04:56:55 pm »
That's quite expensive... If you like it, it should be awesome! :grin:

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #236 on: July 24, 2015, 05:15:44 pm »
Realistically, 2 Hertz amps is going to eat into that price anyway, and it'd mean only one power cable running off the battery, which surely would make maintenance easier? Plus it's less weight and space taken up if you use just one 5 channel amp...

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #237 on: July 24, 2015, 05:23:38 pm »
Realistically, 2 Hertz amps is going to eat into that price anyway, and it'd mean only one power cable running off the battery, which surely would make maintenance easier? Plus it's less weight and space taken up if you use just one 5 channel amp...
Yeah, putting it that way. :laugh:

Before getting the Ed. 30 I was thinking about doing a sound upgrade. Now I'll have to use the BCS exhaust from the Eddie instead. :signLOL: No more money for sound...

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #238 on: July 24, 2015, 05:51:37 pm »
Hard life...

I was in the process of running all my speakers off an amp in the GTI but will never finish that now as its moving on. My new R has the Dynaudio upgrade already which is pretty good for my needs.

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Re: Jay's Golf Coupe "racek0r" project.
« Reply #239 on: August 01, 2015, 01:06:46 pm »
Realistically, 2 Hertz amps is going to eat into that price anyway, and it'd mean only one power cable running off the battery, which surely would make maintenance easier? Plus it's less weight and space taken up if you use just one 5 channel amp...

Glad to see everything is back up and running for ya jay, onwards and upwards ay

That bonnet as well  :love:
I spoke to a few people before starting to source my audio, one sets up home audio for a living and he said if you can separate the amps for subs and speakers it is best to, sending signals clearer or something so that might be worth considering

Its just a way of life.