AMD's 2 litre 304bhp 162mph Fabia Monte Carlo TDi *6 speed conversion*

[Schtum]

19 minutes ago, AMD87 said:

I did remember seeing 146 degree c once at Donington in the summer a few years back 😅

 

I think that's much too hot.  I had that discussion with a friend a few years ago when I was seeing 108 - 109 on a Tiguan with a tuning box fitted.   

 

He was a chemical engineer and a senior exec with BP.  I'm pretty sure he said that anything over 130 would lead to the oil breaking down. 

[AMD87]

1 hour ago, Schtum said:

 

I think that's much too hot.  I had that discussion with a friend a few years ago when I was seeing 108 - 109 on a Tiguan with a tuning box fitted.   

 

He was a chemical engineer and a senior exec with BP.  I'm pretty sure he said that anything over 130 would lead to the oil breaking down. 

Yeah it is that’s why I went for an external cooler after that 

[thomasaspin]

22 hours ago, AMD87 said:

Finally got the oil temp gauge hooked up so more track days 😆

 

 

 

 

Little trip here to test it out 

 

 

noticed it was running pretty cold due to the cold weather so friend was selling this to help block the oil cooler but it doesn’t seem to like the milotec grill. 
 

Bit Of a messy install that for a gauge good sir ,  could you not of engineered a nice vent gauge pod? 
 

something properly engineered like this would do the trick not just stuck through the vent 👍

[AMD87]

16 minutes ago, thomasaspin said:

Bit Of a messy install that for a gauge good sir ,  could you not of engineered a nice vent gauge pod? 
 

something properly engineered like this would do the trick not just stuck through the vent 👍

Looks to be the definition of messy there bbz x 😘

[AMD87]

Little test session at Crail on thier track yesterday, Mainly for datalogging and watching temps to see how it copes on track. Was running great until the last session.

after the first couple of laps the car started spluttering go into limp mode but instead of letting you drive it would just die (not the best when you're on track!) Into the pits plugged in VCDS and came back with a fuel pressure regulator valve code. Cleared it and then car wouldn't start great. Had a look had it and it looks like the cable on the plug was abit tight so loosened it and made sure it was plugged in properly and car fired right up so luckily nothing broke. Always have been happy to talk about the failures unlike some other people that seem to hide them and not mention them so it makes it all look good all part of the adventure of these cars.

Also hate steering wheel controls on track.

 

1st session

 

2nd session, mistakenly hit the phone call button on the wheel and ended up calling my friend 😂
 

 

3rd session mistakenly hit the voice activation button on this one
 

 

last session go pro died on this one
 

 

 

 

 

[thomasaspin]

13 minutes ago, AMD87 said:

Little test session at Crail on thier track yesterday, Mainly for datalogging and watching temps to see how it copes on track. Was running great until the last session.

after the first couple of laps the car started spluttering go into limp mode but instead of letting you drive it would just die (not the best when you're on track!) Into the pits plugged in VCDS and came back with a fuel pressure regulator valve code. Cleared it and then car wouldn't start great. Had a look had it and it looks like the cable on the plug was abit tight so loosened it and made sure it was plugged in properly and car fired right up so luckily nothing broke. Always have been happy to talk about the failures unlike some other people that seem to hide them and not mention them so it makes it all look good all part of the adventure of these cars.

Also hate steering wheel controls on track.

 

1st session

 

2nd session, mistakenly hit the phone call button on the wheel and ended up calling my friend 😂
 

 

3rd session mistakenly hit the voice activation button on this one
 

 

last session go pro died on this one
 

 

 

 

 

Good to see the honesty! there’s been quite a few expensive  failures with that Skoda of yours hasn’t there 👍

[AMD87]

26 minutes ago, thomasaspin said:

Good to see the honesty! there’s been quite a few expensive  failures with that Skoda of yours hasn’t there 👍

Not really no if I’m honest  🤷‍♂️

 

[AMD87]

well street weekend was fun, after the car had been sitting for a few months thought id bring it back out again.

managed 2nd in the overall diesel class with darkside taking 1,2,3.

 

also managed a 0-60 in 5.18 seconds on melbourne's no prep surface










 

 

 

 

 

 

[thomasaspin]

Would be interesting to know how many diesel cars actually turned up, as 2nd in diesel class isn’t that impressive if only a handful of diesels turned up … 

[AMD87]

1 minute ago, thomasaspin said:

Would be interesting to know how many diesel cars actually turned up, as 2nd in diesel class isn’t that impressive if only a handful of diesels turned up … 

At least I turned up unlike you sweetheart. 

[thomasaspin]

Just now, AMD87 said:

At least I turned up unlike you sweetheart. 

Yea you paying £275 entry and a ton of diesel is loads of fun when you haven’t even got a car to compete with the big boys? Why would I turn up in a stage 3 Skoda fabia vrs running a mere 380 bhp when there are people turning up with 1000 bhp plus American muscle cars who will easily win the £1000 jackpot price 

[AMD87]

10 minutes ago, thomasaspin said:

Yea you paying £275 entry and a ton of diesel is loads of fun when you haven’t even got a car to compete with the big boys? Why would I turn up in a stage 3 Skoda fabia vrs running a mere 380 bhp when there are people turning up with 1000 bhp plus American muscle cars who will easily win the £1000 jackpot price 

Only 1000bhp? Not sure what event you followed but there was RS3’s making more than that 🤣 never mind Andy’s car that runs 6s at over 200mph and if you paid attention there was classes but then you’d still have got gapped in the fwd class if you turned up😅

[thomasaspin]

26 minutes ago, AMD87 said:

Only 1000bhp? Not sure what event you followed but there was RS3’s making more than that 🤣 never mind Andy’s car that runs 6s at over 200mph and if you paid attention there was classes but then you’d still have got gapped in the fwd class if you turned up😅

Classic , this coming from the guy who got beat in every class he competed in but I’m the loser for not turning up to be cannon fodder  🤷🏻‍♂️ as for FWD class your probably right being as though any k20 Honda civic could probably turn up with over 600HP with minimal supporting mods and weigh about as much as a bean can.  

[AMD87]

2 hours ago, thomasaspin said:

Classic , this coming from the guy who got beat in every class he competed in but I’m the loser for not turning up to be cannon fodder  🤷🏻‍♂️ as for FWD class your probably right being as though any k20 Honda civic could probably turn up with over 600HP with minimal supporting mods and weigh about as much as a bean can.  

 

who said I was there to win 😂 also it’s you’re not your but this is keeping a lot of us that competed in street weekend entertained and a laugh including the rtmg folk that were there 😂

[ColinD]

Thread cleaned again. did some this am but rushing for a meeting.
 

please keep the bickering to a minimum.

 

if you don’t agree that’s fine, but as per the guidelines, please be nice. 
 

i’d maybe go so far as to revise that to: be nice.

 

[AMD87]

Back out at crail at the weekend, decided to head up to help a friend with their 9 second street car. managed to get a few runs in as well to test out some changes, look forward to see what the fan club have to say this time 🥰

500BHP Noble owner seemed as surprised as me there was only a car length in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9CbyNlwHAM


GTB2566 Fabia vRS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsprhjKbyk

 

425BHP M140i
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibdssb45Vd0

 

390BHP 8V S3 staged too deep on this one so tripped the beam and red lit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyiTySzu30

 

the 2 AWD Honda's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdk5m21yTU

 

[TrevorB33]

On 12/07/2023 at 23:49, AMD87 said:

Back out at crail at the weekend, decided to head up to help a friend with their 9 second street car. managed to get a few runs in as well to test out some changes, look forward to see what the fan club have to say this time 🥰

500BHP Noble owner seemed as surprised as me there was only a car length in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9CbyNlwHAM


GTB2566 Fabia vRS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsprhjKbyk

 

425BHP M140i
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibdssb45Vd0

 

390BHP 8V S3 staged too deep on this one so tripped the beam and red lit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEyiTySzu30

 

the 2 AWD Honda's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdk5m21yTU

 

Awesome mate what times are you running?

[AMD87]

On 18/07/2023 at 02:41, TrevorB33 said:

Awesome mate what times are you running?

timing system went down so no times

Took it to a hill climb a couple of weeks after that event, a friend had rented out the track to test on it and invited me along. been a while since i did a sprint and never on this set up, 2260 really doesnt look low speed stuff 🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsoKAw51z7E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAXrySVX3ak
 

Was talking to Tomas from Darkside who has the silver fabia on saturday night about how i was wanting to go back to Melbourne in York and that there was an event on there at the weekend, He said we should go along so que a 5am start from me to head down. Took home fastest fwd of the day. Also good helping one of the RTMG Mk 8 Golf R's and met up with @FabiaGonzales as well

 

 

 

 

 

Vs Commer Van
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0CHzXYEEpe4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWL72W5yY54

 

vs classic mini
https://youtu.be/o3Bqnt7BltA

 

vs foxbody mustang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9V6hsIVW0
 

vs S Type R

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkIilulq6PI

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL0uugMYA2U

 

vs Darkside 1.6
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xLRrIyfWmUk

vs Abarth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlM78VNST6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4atMgcls2zg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGviok1dy-Y

 

vs @FabiaGonzales

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqjC_je4Q-o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMv3z_aEy7s


darkside 1.6 vs @FabiaGonzales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKt_LuGMLb4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7YWbuscf0s

[AMD87]

Took it back up to crail last weekend. New fastest time and trapping a lot faster than it did on the old engine. 
 

Vs 500whp corsa c

 

 

Fn2 civic

 

Astra VXR

 

 

2jz s13

 

 

Next one was the fun one 

 

Vs b204 Astra

 

 

 

As you can hear shifting from 2nd to 3rd and didn’t have a 3rd gear. On my mounts they are solid mounts which have spacers on them like this

 

 

 

the nut had came off and the spacer came out and lodged itself in the cable engine pulling the linkage out when I changed gear 😂 thankfully an easy fix. 

 

 

 

Darkside wanted the car at a show down their way so it went down at the weekend. 
 

when the car originally went on this engine it was given a base map then every since then it was remapped remotely on the road so never knew how much power it made. It’s also got some new experimental cams as well and thought why not see how much power it has. Certainly surprised us and explains why it’s faster than it was before! Now on 172 dyno pulls on darksides dyno 😂

 

 

 

Some from the show 

 

 

 

[AMD87]

last day of the year out at crail, times down due to no heat in the ground but fastest trap speed its ever done so making the power still

 

Racing a PD160 Cupra with a 2260 and 100bhp of nitrous on top
 

Racing a friend who does VWDRC in his 20vt Lupo on drag slicks, no traction for me at all but still reeled him in
 

 

 

PD130 ibiza with a PD150 turbo
 

 

Racing a friends clio 182 turbo, ran out of meth but before this run and forgot to top it up so was a fair amount of power down compared to usual
 

Then ended the reason with a trip to pod with the AWD RX7
 

 

 

 

Edited 14 November, 2023 by AMD87

[AMD87]

Well the briskoda number plate holders lasted until a trip down to elvington at the weekend 😅  

 

@ColinD do yous still do them? 
 

[ColinD]

I have a few, I think, somewhere in the depths of an untidy garage.

 

I’ll have a look tomorrow and drop you a pm  

[AMD87]

On 01/03/2024 at 21:08, ColinD said:

I have a few, I think, somewhere in the depths of an untidy garage.

 

I’ll have a look tomorrow and drop you a pm  

Thanks 😁