Not 100% sure if this is the right area, if not my apologies, feel free to move it!

Sorrry about quality of some, and size (if to big) alot done on camera phone at random points

Here are a few pictures of my car, over a long period of time, with some changes made.

Picture 1.

Doing what it does best....

Picture 2.

Had to show off the Oil Burners features...

Picture 3.

A mini meet (not as maccy's!)

Picture 4.

Still under contruction at Ed's

Picture 5.

Whats delivery milage?!

Picture 6.

Seeing Double :p

Picture 7, 8, 9 & 10

Arty photo's.. in the middle of the road

Picture 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17

Most upto date, Speedball coming soon!

Picture 18.

Side view of zorst + showing off its a diesel!

Picture 19.

Just a random picture tbh

Picture 20.

My old 1.2 SX beast!

Picture 21.

Every cloud has a silver lining, a

Hope you like guys & girls!

T.

You're brave - putting your car up on 2 scissor jacks... :eek:

You're brave - putting your car up on 2 scissor jacks... :eek:

My suspension's so stiff I can lift the car about 1 foot from the front wheel and I change both front and rear wheels on one jack. Speeds it up a little though.

It was before my new suspension so think I needed 2! Whats wrong with that then, I had sand bags there just incase :P

Nothing really - but I just dont trust them. Maybe its just Skoda, but theyhave been known to buckle.

And the pressure they'd be under with half a car weight (esp. the PD engine) I would trust them...

Obviously worked ok for you though...! :P

Aye, didnt drop and the sand bags were there just incase!

Of course since doing that, ive now got the 312mm brake upgrade, so grey calipers again!

I would have just used a trolley jack and some axles stands, but fair play. IMO, it's just not worth the potential choas, sandbags or no sandbags. I've heard too many horror stories about those jacks.

Some good pics though

Steve

Well I popped down to Santa Pod raceway for a few runs yesturday, weather was nice albiet a little warm at 22c. With my old set up of around 170bhp and 300lb.ft I ran in 2006 a 14.7 as my best, and generally always saw under 15 seconds which from what I can gather and seen, is very good! I then popped down earlier this year (GTI fest) however couldnt crack under 15.1 seconds, puzzled I ran a few more times to figure out if I was just lucky the first time I went to the pod, or if something was up, I figured out I was loosing around .4 of a second from my 2nd to 3rd gear change, it was clunking and wouldnt go smoothly in, soon after and racing "DanCupra" on a run, I heard a large crunch whilst trying to go into 3rd, and that was it gearbox had gone so slip diff in whilst it was being fixed!

However I went down yesturday with the intentions of trying to get back into the 14's and maybe hit 14.5 seconds, after all again looking at others running 220bhp++ they maybe couldnt get the power/torque down off the line. So here I go....

First run of the day

After my first run I had already cracked under 14.5 seconds, with a stonking 14.3

As I always do I then thought bugger this, lets try and get a few .10's of a second off!

So a few more runs and I did these :

Well as you can see I was most impressed! 14.1's! The 2nd be slightly quicker! lol. At this point a few others that whent down on the day all believed I had reached all the car could do in its current set up, running two 14.1's right next to each other. However me being me, I always had to try to go that little bit quicker, get that slightly better launch, that faster gear change, that less wheels spin, and better top speed. I wanted to crack the 13 seconds barrier, a unheard of feet for a TDi that I know of (dont brake my dream yet!) I however had to agree with the people around me, from what I could see my launch's were great, getting a 0-60ft in 2.2 seconds in a FWD car is damn good, esp with a torque monster of a diesel. There is only so fast you can change a gear, and I had to change 3 times to get over the line! So I figured the only way to shave .2 seconds off my time is to get rid of a gear change. So the challenge was set, I needed to break into the 13 seconds 1/4 times and to do this a 2nd gear launch was needed. So im sat at the side of a BMW 325 (nice chap btw) in 2nd gear, giving it some revs... well as you can see by the results, you can see what happened next!! Here :

Doh! I didnt give it enough revs, no where near enough revs, so as I bogged down in 2nd off boost (by around 1,000rpm!) the BMW shot off, however as you can see boost came back (the crowd could tell due to the bloom of black smoke out of the rear *which I now like to class as my own Death Race 2000 mod!* ) I clawed it back, just. So with a 2nd gear launch at 1,000rpm I ran a shockingly FAST 15.2 seconds!

Anyway, the day was getting hotter and was now at 21.5c and my hopes of cracking into the 13's going slim, we talked about getting the weight down, taking the spare seat out, lowering the pressure on front of the wheels, and even putting the rears up a few PSI. However with no tools to take bits out, and no pump to check/change PSI in the tyres, we came to realise the chances of doing what I wanted was very very unlikely. So I waited in line for another go, looking at the black astra turbo at the side of me thinking, this should be a good race, me running early to mid 14's and thinking these astra turbo coupe thingy's should run 15 seconds or so? So giving up on my dream of 13 second 1/4 times I waited at the lights for the astra to get set.. the lights go green and off I go,

Well, as soon as I set off it just seemed to grip and go.. as soon as I got off the strip, I had my hand over my phone waiting for my passenger to call me to tell me if it was as fast as I thought. The phone rang, I answered, my passenger asking me if I finally did a 2nd gear launch right, I said no. But then he asked me if I wanted to know the time, to which of course I Replied... YES!

13.8 FTW!!!!11one.

My job here was done, I was more than happy with that! However as my passenger used to own a very well known TDi Sport on here and left us for a 'sports' car I decided to let him have ago to show him what he was missing! We waited in line for bloody ages, so before he ran we both decided to let this be the last run for the TDi today, I had personally done what others, and even I thought couldnt be done. So I left the last run to him, which of course if he beat my time I would have taken that all back, and ran until I had again got my title back... So he ran :

I was happy to see my car fly down the track, next to what I can only assume was a 400bhp+ perfect white scooby! Was also very happy at the fact that EdButler didnt beat my time, yet IMHO did very well to say he hasnt been used to a TDi for awhile, nevermind mine far from standard!

The only injury of the day is a sheered (sp?!) off engine mount which vibrated the cabin on the way home.

More than happy with the day, times and people who we spoke to whilst then (Ben CTR etc!)

might be better in the motorsport section with that amount of detail?