teemmy
Ready to race!
- Location
- bay area, CA
Pretty clean build, but man do I gots some questions lol.
You went from TTRS brakes to Mk VI Golf R brakes, any reason why? I mean going from a floating rotor to a solid rotor and doing track time seems kinda backwards lol.
Also noticed you went from VWM superstreet plus coilovers to their springs.
Also notice you do track days, and on the pic of your car getting ready to hit up the corkscrew you look like you're out of suspension travel lol. I will say reading the description of the superstreet plus coilovers makes me scratch my head a bit, in one part of the description, they say the spring rates are linear, and later they say they're progressive.
Oh why go from adjustability to not? Looks like it was a single adjustment that did both dampening and rebound(which would drive me nuts but alas) so it looks like adjustment is easy, AND you're in CA so it's not like you're dealing with coilover adjustment collars and calcium chloride and rust.
Didn't like the XR8 pads? Well, at least on these cars?
I really want wavetrac eventually mainly because once you tune these cars at all, the unit that comes in the PP can't do anything anymore. Plus I miss the torsen "foresight" at turn in.
Oh you do track days and get the G's up there, ever have any issues with fuel starvation under high G's? Probably get a CEL for high voltage on the LPFP or the car would stall almost lol.
Has your catch can setup caught anything?
I think that's it.
Non-SE/Autobahns look weird with their body colored roofs, especially in white lol. Wish I could get a black roofed, non-sunroofed car. Fkn hate my sunroof. Nice build op.
I'll try to answer your questions best I can
I had mk6 golf R brakes prior to the TTRS setup, but got new rims and the rims couldn't clear the TTRS brake calipers without a 5mm spacer. I ended up rubbing with the spacers and it was driving me crazy so I decided to ditch the brakes. Don't get me wrong, the TTRS setup a big improvement in stopping power over the mk6 R set up. I had my fenders pulled and I would still rub - I realized the issue with the clearance wasn't actually the sides of the fender, but I was really rubbing more towards the front where the bumper attaches. I think this may be due to the fact that I'm running the superpro bushings that increased the caster.
In terms of track duty, I sadly never got to try out the TTRS setup. I haven't had issues with the mk6 R calipers and rotors on the track and it's performed well for me with upgraded pads, lines and fluid. The brakes take quite a beating at Laguna Seca and they've held up well. I spoke with a mk6R owner who regularly tracks his car and he says the stock brake setup has worked well for him (I think his PR at laguna was a 1:44 range).
Also - XP8s are great, i just used up the set so I changed to GLoc
The VWR superstreetplus was a great coilover set up and worked really well on the track, but this car is my daily and it was still too stiff on it's softest setting so I went back to springs (it was easy to adjust). I still take the car to the track with the springs they work out, but I get a good amount of body roll... Also, you can buy the superstreet plus with either linear or progressive springs. The set that I bought was progressive.
The photo above had plenty of travel It's when you come up and out of the corkscrew that your suspension gets pushed more
I have not had any issues with fuel starvation - I'd like to think that I push my brakes pretty hard, but maybe not hard enough? I also don't just floor them immediately/abruptly but it's more a "press" than a stomp. That being said - I found out about this issue a few times after I tracked my car and went with the Racingline catch can to avoid this issue, so I haven't encountered this problem. (however, the racingline catch can leaks oil...)
The racingline catch can definitely catches a lot of oil because it replaces the stock PCV system.
Hope that answers your questions...