Such underrated track cars these. Had loads of fun pushing  some tasty track cars around and even kept a few race cars honest.

 

 

Great video! Your lines and smoothness look excellent you can tell compared to a lot of the other cars how your lines really help with your corner exit speed.

What Mods have you got? BHP?

I only live an hour away and am building up to my first track day in the wife’s Mk2 Fabia vRS (with a few mods/remap) last thing I need is some track tyres looking at Nankang NS2R.

9 hours ago, Chunk11 said:

Great video! Your lines and smoothness look excellent you can tell compared to a lot of the other cars how your lines really help with your corner exit speed.

What Mods have you got? BHP?

I only live an hour away and am building up to my first track day in the wife’s Mk2 Fabia vRS (with a few mods/remap) last thing I need is some track tyres looking at Nankang NS2R.

Cheers mate, those lines come from lots of practice at Oulton Park, I've probably done over 1000 laps there in the last 3 years.

 

Current spec:

 

Shark stage 1 remap (circa 240hp)

Revo induction kit

S3 intercooler

Bilstein B12 proline suspension

Whiteline RARB (set to full stiff)

Whiteline anti lift kit

Ferodo DS1.11 front pads

Ferodo DS2500 rear pads

Nankang NS2R competition compound 80 tyres

 

If going with Nankang NS2R's then make sure you buy at the least the track 120 compound as the road 180 compound are poor. Another option is Yokohama AD08R's.

 

 

Yeah I have looked at quite a few other track tyres but the Nankangs are so much cheaper and get good reviews.

 

How have you found them? Out of interest where did you get your tyres from?

Most places only seem to do the 180 not the 120 or below.

Hows the wear been on the 80 compound?

 

Fabia upgrades are:

 

-Eibach lowering springs

-H & R Rear anti roll bar

-Stage 1 AMD Remap producing 215Bhp

-EBC yellow stuff front pads

-ATE super blue brake fluid

 

So think it would be a bit of fun around the track with some decent tyres on.

 

 

13 minutes ago, Chunk11 said:

Yeah I have looked at quite a few other track tyres but the Nankangs are so much cheaper and get good reviews.

 

How have you found them? Out of interest where did you get your tyres from?

Most places only seem to do the 180 not the 120 or below.

Hows the wear been on the 80 compound?

 

Fabia upgrades are:

 

-Eibach lowering springs

-H & R Rear anti roll bar

-Stage 1 AMD Remap producing 215Bhp

-EBC yellow stuff front pads

-ATE super blue brake fluid

 

So think it would be a bit of fun around the track with some decent tyres on.

 

 

I got the 80's already on a set of Golf GTI wheels. The 80's are good, not as good as the likes of Avon ZZR and Kumho V70a but on par with Toyo R888's etc. I've never used the 180's but have used AD08'r which were decent for a road/track tyre. What size wheels & tyres are you running?  I have a set of 16" VAG wheels (112 x 5) with 2 x ZZR & 2 x V70a tyres i'm selling but not sure they'd fit the mk2 Fabia.

 

Car will be decent with the above spec but as you say you'll need decent tyres to bring it all together.

I used ZZR's on track with my fabie and they are great on track, worth looking at A052's as well as they are very good although you can get ZZR's pretty cheap (£150 a set) 215/40/17 if you know where to look.

 

Should come to cadwell in may.

19 minutes ago, AMD87 said:

I used ZZR's on track with my fabie and they are great on track, worth looking at A052's as well as they are very good although you can get ZZR's pretty cheap (£150 a set) 215/40/17 if you know where to look.

 

Should come to cadwell in may.

Yeah A052s look very good although expensive. Ive used Avon ZZS as a wet ture and they are fantastic. Best tyre I've used is Toyo RS1. Details on the ZZR's for £150?

16 minutes ago, JB21 said:

Yeah A052s look very good although expensive. Ive used Avon ZZS as a wet ture and they are fantastic. Best tyre I've used is Toyo RS1. Details on the ZZR's for £150?

I tried ZZS when my mate had them on his fabia at a sprint when mine was on ZZR’s and tbh I felt they were dangerous and that was in the damp. 

 

ZZR’s, MX5 race teams, it’s the control tyres for their championships and cause it’s a 1 make they chuck on new tyres nearly every race to stay competitive so you can get the hardly used ones cheap. 

I've been toying between a VRS or a 2.0tfsi b7 quattro, is the car stripped or standard?

 

I concur with everyone’s comments, your flying round there.

 

do you reckon a haldex system would help you? As I’ve also been toying with fitting it to the Octavia if I was to track it, I find standing starts the most frustrating due to the lack of grip.

 

have you done anything with your ABS and ESP? 
 

sorry for all the question, it just seems you’d be the person to ask.

On 03/12/2019 at 14:51, Vrsburnzy said:

I've been toying between a VRS or a 2.0tfsi b7 quattro, is the car stripped or standard?

 

I concur with everyone’s comments, your flying round there.

 

do you reckon a haldex system would help you? As I’ve also been toying with fitting it to the Octavia if I was to track it, I find standing starts the most frustrating due to the lack of grip.

 

have you done anything with your ABS and ESP? 
 

sorry for all the question, it just seems you’d be the person to ask.

Haldex wouldn't be a benefit i'd be looking at a wavetrac diff or a plated one as i doubt you'll get that much of an advantage from a haldex on track.

There’s been a few changes in the household so I reckon I’m going to go for the 4wd VRS route, just because I can more than anything, would be nice to compare on track one day but when that day is I couldn’t say.

On 31/01/2020 at 18:23, Vrsburnzy said:

There’s been a few changes in the household so I reckon I’m going to go for the 4wd VRS route, just because I can more than anything, would be nice to compare on track one day but when that day is I couldn’t say.

Sorry for the late reply. Haldex system is not good for track at all. Traffic light GP yeah. Just remove as much weight as possible, increase front negative camber. And fit sticky tyres. I tracked a Mazda 6 MPS with similar to Haldex and it was terrible. Point and squirt only and very understeery. Not fun at all.

 

I disabled ESP for full control of the car. 

yesssssss! You're on here too?

 

Friggin taxi blitzing me up the hill in my ep3