Mk2 Fabia vRS 1.4TSi (Twincharged) build thread

Mr Fletcher · Post by **Mr Fletcher** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:06 am

nice one, glad you had a trouble free day .

Post by **Stuart** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:51 pm

Great post and update

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:28 pm

Bet this car surprises a few people on track days. It certainly was wet nin those videos. Glad it all went well for you.

vRSy · Post by **vRSy** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:03 pm

Cheers guys

Think the fact the car was relatively softly sprung helped alot. There weren't many cars that were outperforming me, however change the conditions to dry and id have overheating tyres and brakes and to much body roll, then id be slowing guys up.

vRSy · Post by **vRSy** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:06 pm

Been a busy little bee recently

A bit of background

As said elier in this thread, i donated my car to Shark Performance to have them develop a remap for the 1.4TSI back in May last year in return for a F.O.C remap. I had been on the look out for a map and at the time was torn between APR Motorsport and Shark Performance for the job, Shark made the offer of no cost for development, to which i jumped at the opportunity. Saved me

vRSy · Post by **vRSy** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:08 pm

BUT

That wall happened last wednesday. Today is a week on and i am having a different map, from a differnt tuner

So i currently have the custom jabbasport map on my car and its very very good.

BUT the night i got back from having it done i was contacted by APR who have now started to re-enter the APR UK tuning scene and wanted my car for hybrid turbo map development. I had been having a distinct lack of communication from the old APR UK guys(tuningwerkes) so had just given up. Now under new management, its a huge improvement.

APR was my original choice even before i went with shark performance for my first remap anyway, mainly due to the switchable map system. The map isnt going to cost me anything, so that wasnt a factor to consider and ill also get a water methanol injection specific map that i can switch to when using water meth for max output B).

There was alot of oohing and ahhing over the last few days trying to decide if i should change from a remap that i am very happy with, ie why fix something that isnt broken, and Jabba were more than capable of doing the hybrid, but after a few discussions with many people, i have gone for it.

We've decided to take the modifying alot further though, we'll be sorting suspension, brakes, engine mounts etc etc. My situation is perfect for this. Im out of the country for 6 months, thus dont need the car, so APR are keeping it for me and going to go crazy on it on my behalf

Previous Spec
Decat DP, Pace Intercooler, Pace radiator, Forge intake, shark stage 2 remap :|

Current spec
Decat DP, Pace Intercooler, Pace radiator,Jabba Custom remap

Next weeks spec
Decat DP, Pace Intercooler, Pace radiator, Loba LO270 hybrid turbo, APR Stage 3 remap

This shiny little badger is getting bolted to my car

LO270 turbocharger

state-of-the-art “Extended Tip” compressor wheel
5-axis CNC re-profiled compressor housing and backplate
5-axis CNC re-profiled turbine housing
special clipped turbine wheel
optimized clearances
modified actuator
uprated bearing
precision balancing of individual components and CHRA

Not bloody cheap though

Apparently its capable of 270hp with all the bolt on parts and components you would expect a stage 3 car. but i removed my Forge intake as it was restricting power so its the stock intake fitted currently it will choke the power for the minute, but its only a minor mod to sort. Im not expecting 270hp by any means in all honesty, but im expecting to gain plenty over my current 216Hp, especially with a nice big intake.

Very excited.

This time next year, the car should be a very very different beast, but will have had considerably more money plowed into it than previously planned :S ,

Knowing my luck something will go wrong lol

The Polo GTI in this hot tuner challenge test is where my car should be performing (same engine/chassis/tuner etc) except my car wil have alot more power!!

http://goapr.com.au/media/mm-june2011.pdf<<< Makes interesting read

Post by **Stuart** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:13 pm

2.3bar

Fair play. Reading back through your weight saving bits, don't forget that the rotating bits are worth 4 x the static bits (i.e. wheel weight savings of 5kgs are worth 15kgs on the bodywork)
Interesting to hear about the diff. Nice update

vRSy · Post by **vRSy** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 7:28 pm

New wheels and new brakes should save me around 10kg a corner. Wheels 3kg lighter, brakes 7 kg lighter.

So potentially 40kg total static weight removed, but even more when you consider the rotational and unsprung mass saving

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:40 am

Great write up and update. Very informative:thumbs:

vRSy · Post by **vRSy** » Sat Feb 18, 2012 12:41 am

Car is niw away getting worked on.

LOBO LO270 hybrid turbo, heatwrap and stage 3 remap
Adjustable AST coilovers
330mm 2 piece discs and Caparo AP 4 pot
VWRACING front and rearcanti roll bars
VWRACING intake.

In the meantime I've got their courtesy car.

Stage 2+ VW Golf R, with 380hp, AST suspension, race haldex controller, Caparo brakes...
Its an absolute animal

Using the RACELOGIC Performance Box I timed the 0-6_ sprint in 4.1seconds

and that was with 3 of us in the car. It is immense.

There is a very large downside.....They have put graphics and vinyl over it, so its embarassing