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Car stripped out today in practice for my upcoming 1/4 virgin run. Popped it on the weighbridge and with the TD Pro 1.2,s, Milltek and the strip its now 80kg,s lighter:D

Loving your work.

Fingers crossed for a good 1/4 mile time

Lovin your progress pal, gunna be a right pocket rocket. Jelous comes to mind. Lol keep up the good work pal.

Tomioka racing battery ordered.Weighs 6.8kg instead of 25kg for stock one. Car now around 1085kg

Why strip a new car? Good work though but rather do 1/4 mile stock interior

Have you done the 1/4 mile run yet?

Hurdy wrote:Have you done the 1/4 mile run yet?

Next Sunday. Got any tips john ?

Blaade wrote:

Hurdy wrote:Have you done the 1/4 mile run yet?

Next Sunday. Got any tips john ?

Yep, get down as fast as you can

Seriously though, firstly all I'd do with the GTI is press and go, ensuring less than half a tank of fuel and lower tyre pressure at the front. I'd have the car in sport for the first run with traction control on, then I'd be trying the same with traction control off and metering the fast pedal on launch in case of tyre spin, then once i'd got that right I'd be swapping to manual mode with traction off and seeing if short shifting from first to second makes a difference. All the time keeping an eye on the times. Eventually you'll hit on a combination that suits you best and gives you the fastest time.

Cool stuff, looking forward to this. Gonna do a few 1/4 mile runs in mine as soon as I find a suitable event, so it'll be interesting to compare with your modded car.

Absolutely love this car!

Tomioka racing battery now fitted. Excellent install by Andy O @ ARD, looks factory

Looks like theyve done a good job fitting it. Can you tell a noticeable difference in acceleration after changing that house brick off a battery lol

The car accelerates like its on crack anyway so its difficult to tell.

I need an exhaust in my life feels restricted with just Revo map

Any 1/4 mile times Ryan?