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Not sure haven’t seen it done and it’s based on a different platform. Easier to go with tried and tested stuff that you know fits unless you want to be the first to try. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363060427029

till I get better pics on Saturday

You can still buy them from Škoda direct that’s what I did if you look on page 14 there’s details there

Getting there also some pics from the weekend

Car dropped off at Raceworx hopefully the bonnet will finally get fitted Also vide of simon's focus from sunday

As long as it’s a 6J you can’t go wrong. The fabia vrs will fit too bit the Ibiza one is around 15mm wider. Mines off an estate too.

probably going to be a longish post so best to make some tea. First "competitive" event for the car since the 2 litre was put in, Always wanted to do one of these top speed events just to see how fast the car can go, event is a standing mile with speeds also taken at the 1/2 mile too. Looking at the logs from 1/4 mile runs i had a realistic idea of speed of 135mph with a hope of maybe touching 140mph. Managed to rope in my mate simon in his 700bhp Focus RS and Richie who had a monte carlo before but now has a 400bhp 335d. Since it was the first time at one of these events i know from experience just to build things up. First run i did was no meth, no hard launch and short shift to 5th and let it run out, hit a crosswind at 100mph as you can see in the video it weaves a little. Running a Vbox sport i had a live gps speed on my phone, looked at the speed and it seen 150mph. 150mph in my little diesel skoda in around 1 mile from a standing start. Couldn't help but have a giggle to myself at that one in the shut down area. Official timing had it at 147mph. Expectations already exceeded! Next run decided to go a slightly harder launch and rev it out abit more, keeping an eye on the gps speed i decided to hit the meth switch to give it a little push to maybe get to 150mph but the light didn't come on! No meth and it went through the timing beams at 149mph! No meth 149mph! All i could think was what on earth have Darkside built here. Had to work out why the meth didn't kick in, knew it had meth as even if the tank was empty the light will still show if the solenoid would still activate and a green light comes on in the car and if the tank is empty another light comes on to show its low and i had just filled it when we arrived. First thing to check was the fuses, all ok and it was 100% working the night before as i had a run in with a golf r in mexico. The system is activated via boost so when it reachs a certain boost level it kicks in. Checked the line on the manifold all good, traced it back to the switch and theres no boost line there. it had came off so fitted it back on and cabled tied it in so it couldnt come off again. Went to line up again for another run but it was lunch time so had to wait for afterwards Also as you can see parked outside the guys selling some race fuel got chatting to them and they gave me some stuff to try. Plan was to do as i did in the last run, run the car up get to 5th then when in 5th hit the meth switch, run was good and the car was hauling, hit the brake and looked over at the gps, 160mph, 160mph in a daily driven diesel hatch. Couldn't believe it and got abit excited at that. Went through the beams at 153mph Next run thought i would try and full meth run from start to finish and go for 155mph. Forgot i had the window down slightly so put it up when i was in 3rd but then hit the hardcut for a second before then going into 4th, lost some speed/time but at the 1/2 mile it was 3mph up even with that which shows how much the car was trucking along, got to 154mph on gps still not at the timing beams yet and we get limp mode, brown trouser moment for me as i thought i had broke it, thankfully ryan from darkside was on hand by email most of the day and was keeping in touch with how i was getting on. The car isn't mapped for meth its just an add on which you can turn on or off but i think full throttle for that long was abit much for it, as you can see the IAT's were over 60 degrees C. still went through the beams at 149mph and that wasn't me breaking but it coasting down in limp mode. Fault code reset i made the decision that i was going to do one more run as i need to drive this thing back to scotland over 200 miles and would rather drive it back than tow it back. Decided im not going to do a full meth run but run it till 4th then hit the meth so its on for 4th and 5th all the way through. set off and car was just freight training alone, kept it in again after the timing beams for as long as i dared before hitting the brakes look over and seen 162mph! Timing beams were 155mph! brakes really did get abit hot! @DarksideDevelopments have built me an amazing car, it's hard to describe just how all round this car is. I can drive it 250 miles fire down a runway at 160mph then drive it 250 miles home that isn't loud you can still have a full convo on the motorway and dont have to shout or raise your voice and no smoke. Thats something you'd expect from a top spec audi/bmw/merc diesel not a little diesel skoda ecohatch. And it averaged 51mpg. Through out the day there was loads of people commenting on how quick it was and that they didn't expect it to be putting in those kinds of speeds. Couple of guys also said it was the car of the day for them as with the supercars you'd expect them to be quick but not a little diesel hatchback and they were even more surprised to see it was stripped out or trailered down and i was going to drive it home. Safe to say i love this car, still my first car and its going no where ever.

Great day at Elvington. Expectations were a realistic 135mph with a hope for 140mph. He blew by that expectation!

Morning at Darkside catching up with folks and having a map tweak and some stickers

Mine gets realigned after every Knockhill track day due to the landings and still does this 🤭😂 just learned to live with it tbh but I get my tyres at cost price.

first of all sorry to @Schtum was in your neck of the woods and didn't prewarn you so you can come see the car 😅 One of my friends Simon who is a ford tuner (a car he has tuned is currently the fastest 1/4 mile fiesta st in europe and is closing in on the world record) is bringing his 701BHP Focus RS with him to straightliners this sunday so went up to pay him a visit today and we got talking about my gear ratios and speeds that i posted above. So he had the idea of sticking it on his dyno and see what speeds it gets, while on it he wanted to do some power runs. I trust simon's dyno as i've seen multiple cars on it that have been stupidly quick on the track and the cars he has built over the years have a proven track record. Graphs are in WHP as simon hates Flywheel hp and i calculated it using a 15% drive train lose. I know Darkside underrate thier cars as i've been to dyno days with bobby in his golf and its always made more and a couple of the other cars but here was the results. 2.3 bar of boost too. As you can see all constant too which shows how good their mapping is for the cars to be constant. In other news air con is fixed! just needed a regas.

Change the limiter in vcds did a quick launch in it tonight. First time on full power still no traction till 3rd

Maybe we share mot testers 👀 😂 still spaces if you fancy bringing the superb

You coming to York on Sunday

So the fabia now has it's first event arranged with the new set up, Standing 1/4 mile and Standing 1 mile racing at Elvington next weekend Had a think about what tyres to take the ZZR's have a slightly higher profile and dug out the ratios to double check them, i think in the standing mile i'd be hoping for 140mph The top speeds at 5000rpm Top speeds at 5400RPM where the rev limiter is set to So prep started and have now mixed up 20 litres of Water/Meth and a tunnel run yesterday

How do you know it’s in normal range if the sensor isn’t and I’ll quote you here “may not necessarily be very accurate anyway” ?

There’s diesel ones too 🤣

Hi what you want to know https://youtu.be/q5-XXeiLCZ4

You mean the same oil temp sensor that any respectable tuner would use through vcds or any other logging system? oh look an oil cooler on a Monte Carlo Must be photoshopped . 😉

Not very well it seems.

How is it poverty tuning 😂 and that’s on the assumption they are allowed in low emissions zones anyway. loads of us have tested these parts way past their limits and know what we are talking about

I got 263bhp and 400ft lbs out of my 1.6 before it bent rods. Now on 304bhp and 425ft lbs in a 2 litre that got fitted.

Wrong as usual. You can fit an external oil cooler and the gauge is very accurate.

it’s still a restriction and you needed a better mapper if you think they will be filthy. And they are restrictive the fact you’re flat out saying they aren’t is wrong. Although tailgaters love them