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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4)
« Reply #60 on: May 31, 2011, 09:49:22 pm »
Eurotuner then made my pics look average and gave me some nice shots as a keep sake















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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #61 on: May 31, 2011, 10:36:52 pm »
Great update and some cracking pics of the Rocco there Wigit :happy2:
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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #62 on: May 31, 2011, 10:37:37 pm »
bruntingthorpe showed the flaws of the acc damping set up and stock brakes took a pounding

so off to autosport to do some perving research





and decided ideal brake set up for what i wanted was the daveb boxter/caymen set up and as look would have it SteveP was selling his set up which was shipped off to daveb for some refurbishment works









acquired some oem porsche damping shims





porsche calipers are under half the weight of the stock items and were to run on Mintex 1144s, the rear GTI set up has larger disks than rocco 286 instead of 256 with stock oem going on rear

these spent a month in the garage waiting to go on, given rising fuel prices it was not making sense to run the rocco for 20k a year (Pirelli has been having a rest whilst swmbo is lady of leisure), didn't want to sell it and go berg derv, so decided to acquire another motor for the fleet to mean the rocco could become a weekender, originally went out for a polo bluemotion but were fetching silly money

instead ordered a Fiat 500 Twin Air Lounge in white with some toys given the deal from fiat meant fule savings paid for the car, currently awaiting delivery of 'Pootle' (in honour of the flumps) and will be sporting P500TLE when it arrives late june



this meant round two with the lowering stick........

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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #63 on: May 31, 2011, 10:48:06 pm »
some pics with the porkas on, nice and understated and big thanks to DaveB and SteveP for their patience help  :happy2:







given roccy semi retirement decision was made to do a few track days, never fancied the thought of a towing eye sticking out the front of the rocco so thought i would go TRS strap instead, got to thank MATED30 for all his help which from his mk5 set up which proved no relevance to the rocco which was ompeltely different with limited space

given i was doing consultancy work for the University of Oxford Department of Engineering Science at the time a few favours were called in to get this to work

oem tow hook was cut down and re profiled to a wheel brace bolt size so bolt could be mounted to car, TRS strap hole was enlarged slightly



new cover then had a slot machined for the strap, also some black tape applied to inside of bumper so blue was not visible





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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #64 on: May 31, 2011, 10:50:47 pm »
next up was a session at Surrey Rolling Road to see what Stage 2 did on an honest dyno, very pleased with the figures and pleased i have an uprated clutch, there is no shortage of mid range  :happy2:



289bhp and 355lbft  :evilgrin:

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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #65 on: June 01, 2011, 07:50:41 am »
i just love this car!
and the mods thus far are subtle but pure class :congrats:
matsu
keep on doing what ya doing you,ll keep on getting what ya getting.

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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #66 on: June 01, 2011, 08:30:43 am »
i just love this car!
and the mods thus far are subtle but pure class :congrats:
matsu

Cheers fella comments like that make it worthwhile

Next post will bring it right up to date as round 2 with the lowering stick is complete

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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #67 on: June 01, 2011, 08:33:39 am »
I really love this too, and lots of inspiration for my own Scirocco.  :happy2:
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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates page 4 onwards)
« Reply #68 on: June 01, 2011, 09:38:59 am »
lookin good pal, more more more :laugh:

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Re: Pirelli & Scirocco (rocco updates from page 4)
« Reply #69 on: June 01, 2011, 11:17:15 pm »
so bringing things up to day

was debating which coilover route to go down given i wanted to do the odd track day and wanted the car a bit lower, the question was which KW variant, V1 was more road biased, V2 seemed ideal, V3 if properly set up

having been chatting with VWR they said they were doing their own V1 kit with a stiffer set up than the stock V1s more akin to how they set up their V3s, decision made to go down this route and add some ARBs later

wanted to do things properly so a ACC cancellation kit was needed so I could cancel out the damping but alter the steering weight (in reality car has rarely been out of sport)



VWR have raised their game on late on workmanship, only hiccup was wrong spring rating from KW for the rocco, revised springs fitted last week, with the words 'drop it another 10mm'

so decided to celebrate breaking the 50,000 mile barrier by taking it to Beford Autodrome on Friday, car has been cranked up 10mm front and rear as just too low (there was still 5mm to go on these pics), ride has improved on normal roads and can get over the speed hump by my house  :evilgrin:













new suspension really made a difference to how the car handles and whislt its a little firmer the damping has meant its no longer crashy like the stock set up :happy2:

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Looks great Andy! :happy2:

Bet you can reach right over the roof now it's that low!! 

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Looks great Andy! :happy2:

Bet you can reach right over the roof now it's that low!! 



you can when you have got a load of bags of soild form b&q  :happy2:

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Oh and your still a tart!  :P

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Oh and your still a tart!  :P

so no longer a whore :)

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