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Its a 20vt fwd beastie!
420 @ wheels
0-60 2.99
0-100 6.2
0-135 10.6
180+ mph
It does me!

I think it needs dropping a little more and your tyres are well past legality James!!!!

Simply awesome.

I take it, it's not a daily! Saw you run at Santa Pod last year, certainly a very good tool for the job.

It used to be my daily! Its fully road legal and gets driven to and from all race events. It is a VW after all!
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Damn website keeps clipping the photo's!

My prefered wheel/tyre combo!
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So how do you go about squeezing 420bhp from a 1.8!

IHI VF34 running flat out. External wastegate. Leaded race fuel and a 60 shot of the good stuff!

What boost does it run to be flat out?

1.85 bar. 27 psi. Too much really but it loves it! Its the origional turbo i bought 5 years ago! Not all IHI's fall to bits!!

What gearing do you run?

Now, dont tell anyone . Its 02A with vr 1-4 and tdi 5th using vr final drive. With a Peloquin ATB diff. Works a treat. Only stripped 3rd once which was my fault. It also has 02J selector. Much better than 02A although it often misses 3rd if you rush it! Need sequential box really.

James H wrote:Now, dont tell anyone . Its 02A with vr 1-4 and tdi 5th using vr final drive. With a Peloquin ATB diff. Works a treat. Only stripped 3rd once which was my fault. It also has 02J selector. Much better than 02A although it often misses 3rd if you rush it! Need sequential box really.

You must be getting plenty of traction with those front tyres, at what point can you give it full throttle down the track?

I take it you have seen these?

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Full throttle straight away! With NOS too!! Best 60' of 1.58!
Bill 'Badger5' Brockbank had one of those shifters. Nothing but trouble. Problem lies in gearbox. Shame good sequential boxes cost£20k+ Quaife is ****! Still £10k!

Hey another Cambs lad, this thing looks awesome.

What no swearing?!
Quaife box is ****!!!

James H wrote:What no swearing?!
Quaife box is ****!!!

To be fair, I've heard a few times that the Quaife if shit!

I'd love to see this run down the track. Sub 3 sec 0-60 is fapping awesome. So I'm guessing it's not a standard block?

Awesome stuff. Glad to hear the VR gearing is holding out with 420whp!

Great times for FWD too

It is standard block. They're bomb proof! It has Pauter I beam rods and JE pistons. 82.5mm. Standard crank. Mildly ported small port head. 1 piece exhaust valves. Standard cams. I dont like to change things for the sake of it! VW know what they're doing!!
If you check out VWDRC.com the race meets for next year should be on there. We need more Pro cars. Why not join? You need to run quicker than 12.99 to be in Pro. Slower than this and you'd run in Sportsman.

Awesome, inspirational stuff I love sleepers like yours.

One day I'll get into this track stuff. Got loads more to do to get mine ready for that kind of punishment first!

Thats me in the sportsman class then, damn, do you do proper drag racing or the break out style of it?

Also interesting that you use a ported small port head, any reason why? Are you using an AGU as well then?

The VWDRC is bracket racing where you dial in the time you think you are going to run. Run quicker and you're disqualified! Its so cars of different speeds can race together. Slower car getting a head start. I would call it proper racing!! Its great! You need good reactions and be consistant on your runs.
Big port gives a bit more top end but loses bottom end. For road use small port is the way to go. Its not all about max hp bragging rights!! Having said that, my new engine is big port and i may swap it over to help me on the strip!

i love drag racing.i'll deff come along and watch some of these next year.