Brake upgrade to Tarox!

Whilst the stopping power of the 4 pot Brembo GT Senior kit was good with the fully floating race disks etc. they finally overheated and warped the disks, plus melted the rubber seals etc. 

Time to go even bigger on the brakes and with the advice from the kind people at Tarox UK we have now fitted the Tarox 6 pot calliper kit on the front which also now matches our Tarox rear brake kit.

  Brambo vs Tarox

 Here you can see the difference in the pad surface area

 4 pot vs 6 pot

 Easy acess for changing the pads and bleeding

 Took less than an hour to fit the including new braded lines etc.

Forge Action Day

The TT was on track at the Forge Motorsports Action day @ Castle Combe!

Here's the link to the photos: <here>

Forge Oil Catch Tank

One of the known issues with the 1.8T VAG engine is that is vents excessive oil vapor from the crank case back into the air intake. This oil vapor not only reduces the engine efficiency but slowly clogs up the intercooler etc.
Also if you fill the oil level past 50% on the hatched area on the dip stick this can get really bad!

Recently I slightly overfilled the TT and this resulted in spewing oil out of the crank case vent into the air intake and ultimately killed the MAF and soaked the air filter in think oil - you have been warned!

There is a simple solution and that is an oil catch tank, Forge Motorsport make one specifically for the TT that fits snugly into the engine bay (The shiny silver cylinder):

This helps remove the oil form the air and stores it in the little tank, this will need emptying every now and then, if you are racing after every race weekend.

Silverstone and Donington

We had a great race at Silverstone with the 750MC, after a poor qualifying (because I didn't know the Intonational Track), we made up 10 places to finish 16th:




There were Flames at Donington with the CSCC:

New TT Race Car Wing

As the TT has got faster and faster we are starting to stuggle with rear downforce in high speed corners!

Simple Solution a big carbon fiber wing:

We also removed the rear 18Kg steel counter weight hiding under the rear bumper (Audi you should be ashamed).

Class win at Anglesey

We had a good race at Anglesey with the CSCC:

Note the addition of a chin spoiler/splitter and the TTS look rear spoiler! 

We also carbon fiber vinyl wrapped the rear valance.

New Forge Race Intercooler

Whilst our original front mounted intercooler was an improvement on the OEM side mounted ones it was really designed for road use, for racing we needed a much bigger one!

We opted for the Forge Motorsports Race intercooler:

At the same time we added an oil cooler too.

We have now raced a couple of times using the race intercooler and the power difference is amazing!

Even though the charge pipe is too hot to touch the intercooler exit pipe is stone cold to the touch!