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Wow so really bad luck lately then mate.
at least it's all fixed up now. The bonnet I'm not sure yet. But as said above. Needs painting rising blue . Imo it looks put of place on a blue car. But your car it's what you like.

Cheers Jack, it's not to everyones taste, but I wasn't sure when it came in, but I have a habit of just taking a risk, I think it worked, i absolutely love it.

DAN180Y wrote:devastating about that deer and how the hell did your rcd set on fire could of been much worse i guess.

i seen you post the pictures in the facebook owners club were both in didnt realise how much damage youv actually taken from that vile creature, nightmare

not sure about the bonnet mind better than a ruined one though haha

When I was earthing the high to lo converters a screw dropped into the HU. I didn't realise you can take the facia off and shake the screw out, i forgot about it and then I guess it shifted and shorted something out inside.. not ideal lol.

Could be a lot worse, airbags could have gone off or something lol.

AshleyHerbert wrote:Should definitely get this bonnet wrapped or sprayed Rising Blue!

I like it carbon for now at least.
also will be getting carbon front wings, and carbon rear spoiler. I will be painting the badge blue though.

Got new boots all round and a fast road alignment set up
Vredestein Ultrac Vorti's. Coming from Goodyear Eagle F1 Asy2


I also got a new front badge through which I am going to paint blue to match the car.. just both the paint shops I went to over the weekend didn't have aerosol cans to mix up Rising Blue for me...so I'm going to order the paint online.

Going to Pod at the weekend hoping to beat my 14.2 best.

Post pod update.


I did manage to beat my time!

I went up to VW Action with mate my Royce , then found out it was £60 sign on fee! Cheeky buggers.
Was there anyway so coughed up.

Had 7 or 8 runs, beating my original PB of 14.22 with a 14.08, then oops.....

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Pretty sure that something's wrong there haha.
Royce towed me a little bit up the road with a borrowed tow-rope


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Something seems to have been missing from the end of the shaft.....

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Completely ruined that lol, spline sheered off and took the hub nut out with it.

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My mate Alex at AKS very very kindly came up from his Workshop with a spare driveshaft and hub nut. What a lad.

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Swapped it over, nice and easy, drove home. Result.

What a day.

bloody hell mate! what caused that to go?

Fair play to your friend for coming up with the bits (and beating your PB time haha)

Glad you got it sorted there and then

benny1703 wrote:bloody hell mate! what caused that to go?

Fair play to your friend for coming up with the bits (and beating your PB time haha)

Glad you got it sorted there and then

That torque lol combined with not preloading the CVs.

Was also busy at the weekend .






Considering I rattle-canned it outside and didn't flat/polish it, really happy.





Didn't really like the black on black. looked weird.



Much better IMO.

Not normally a fan of colour coded badges but it works really well against the carbon.

I like that badge a lot in blue. Good choice.

Yeh blue badge works much better.
I still think the bonnet needs spraying blue though.

Going for this look?

Nice;)



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Dave7692 wrote:Not normally a fan of colour coded badges but it works really well against the carbon.

Thanks mate, I saw it done on another car on Google (without the vents though) and took the plunge, for the sake of £30 for a new badge and some paint lol

Wazzaroc wrote:I like that badge a lot in blue. Good choice.

Cheers mate, i really like it, adds a new touch.

whiteDevil_170 wrote:Yeh blue badge works much better.
I still think the bonnet needs spraying blue though.

Haha, it's never going to happen! Not until the lacquer starts to peel.

Irvysan wrote:Going for this look?

Nice;)


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Not quite mate, going for the GT24 look eventually.
Wings and all.
Already got a place to buy them from.

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That fibre surround needs spraying blue

What torque are you running? I had a PD130 Ibiza previously that I was running 240bhp and 380ft/lb abs never had any issues with drive shafts! Bit of an inconvenience that!

Bowser wrote:What torque are you running? I had a PD130 Ibiza previously that I was running 240bhp and 380ft/lb abs never had any issues with drive shafts! Bit of an inconvenience that!

It's about 360lb ft mate.
Not that bothered, it happens when you're dragging and stuff lol

philjay92 wrote:That fibre surround needs spraying blue

Lol what is it with people painting stuff blue!
Maybe in the future.



Got this on Wednesday.

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Very happy with it.

Had a trackday with a few mates at a very wet and rainy Mallory Park
Unfortunately it ended up in a recovery home for my mate who smashed up his MX5.

My Scirocco was OK but the brakes caused me no end of problems.
The RS4-2s would cause pad build up meaning MASSIVE steering vibration (shaking the whole car) and it felt like the subframe was going to fall off.
Shame really as they stopped the car well and there was absolutely no fade and I was pushing it hard, the rainy conditions were handled well by the car.

I also knew how bad the subframe was with the shifting but it was again a problem on the tracky day making some pretty horrible noises.

To this end I have purchased a Tyrolsport Deadset Kit from Alex @ AKS Tuning . It comes with some ARP bolts to replace some shite OEM ones, I'm going to get a complete set of replacement bolts for the subframe anyway to mount when fitting the subframe kit.

Also have some Powerflex rear arm bushes to go in as well as mine have had it and that will be pretty much the whole car Polybushed then.

Going to fit both as they will require an alignment after and no point doing it twice. Will aim to do this in a few weeks.

Looking at getting fresh discs and some new pagids, either some Project MU H18s or Pagid RS29 Yellows.
Time will tell.


A couple of obligatory-well-overpriced-trackday-watermarked-photos

trackday1 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr

trackday2 by Fat Bear Photography, on Flickr

Hi, I just went though this topic, TOP Rocco with 170engine !!! I just wish I could met you and take a closer look.
By any chance don't you have any videos from inside or outside how does the car goes around circuit?

junti wrote:Hi, I just went though this topic, TOP Rocco with 170engine !!! I just wish I could met you and take a closer look.
By any chance don't you have any videos from inside or outside how does the car goes around circuit?

Thanks buddy.

Unfortunately no videos - I took my Go-Pro but you weren't allowed helmet mounts.
I was trying to sneak it on while I was driving but it's very hard lol.

Love the steering wheel!

Just read this, brilliant absolutely brilliant mate lot of work gone in to it!


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