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!

Silverstone May 2014

For our first race of the season we raced at Silverstone with the 750MC in the Cartek Roadsports series.

We still hadn't had chance to see if the new fuel pump had cured the fuel delivery issues so it was straight into the deep end.

For qualifying we had an intermittent issue with the turbo pressure and ultimately the turbo control valve feed pipe split, but not before we had managed to put in a respectable quali time.
Assuming that this was the issue we temporally fixed the pipe that had split at one end  (buy cutting off the end) and it was race time.

Unfortunately the split pipe was masking another fault that was a dodgy N75 turbo control valve. So for the first half of the race we had intermittent turbo power. Then half way through it suddenly started working properly and we were 4s per lap faster. Unfortunately this was to little to late but at least we finished the race and enjoyed driving TTRS flat out around Silverstone.

We have since replaced the N75 Valve (to the brown one mounted upside down )and also uprated the feed pipes to the diverter valve and the with silicone ones from Forge.

Read the full report in TrackDriver Magazine