Greetings,
Those that know me, or know of me, will know that as long as my Octavia, I also have a MG ZS to play with. Well, as fun as the MG has been, I've been hankering after something with a bit more grunt so I can go faster on track days. After much thought, I decided a good prospect would be a MK1 Audi TT. Cheap to buy at the moment, quick and good handling out of the box and good availability of parts and bolt on upgrades.
I started to keep an eye out for a decent TT with the intent of preparing and upgrading it for track work. Had my eye on a couple but then stumbled upon one that has already been prepared to pretty much the spec I was aiming at. It was a long way away, 300 mile round trip, but it wasn't something I could pass up on so I arranged a viewing, hitched up my trailer and went and had a look.
It needs some attention to the paintwork but underneath and mechanically it's good so a deal was done.
It's a 225 BAM engined Quattro. It's stripped out, lowered, has bucket seats, decat, a new set of track rubber on and its been mapped so should be over 250bhp as it sits. Certainly pulls well.
Plan is to go right through it and sort anything that needs attention as I'll be looking to push it hard on track.
I started taking bits off the engine this afternoon. All the pcv hoses are past their best so I'm going to replace the whole lot with a catch can set up. I even managed to make a split in the turbo intake pipe as the oily stuff from the pcv system had caused it to rot. No bother, as high on my list of upgrades was a Badger 5 oversize TIP anyway. Whilst the inlet manifold was off, I've cleaned it right up and will be painting it a nice matt red colour with VHT paint along with a replacement cam cover so it'll look a bit nicer under the bonnet.
Along with the new intake, I've also ordered a Newsouth Power Gasket, to help reduce heat transfer between the head and the mani and whilst I was on a shopping spree, I've also ordered a nice set of billet injector cups.
So whilst I await all the parts I've ordered the engine bay is currently looking like this:
Once I've got it all back together, I'll be giving it a full service along with dropping the sump to change the pickup pipe and I'll stick a fresh cambelt and water pump on it.
Once I'm happy with the mechanicals, I'll have a look at the cosmetics as like I said earlier, the paint work isn't the best. The roof needs sanding and repainting ideally and also the driver's side has a different silver door so I'll keep my eye out for one in the correct colour.
I've got a track day at Donnington booked in 6 weeks time so I'd like to have it all sorted a bit before that so I can MOT it and drive it a bit before hand. No pressure