FWD TDi - 10.8 second 1/4 mile at 141.1mph

numbnuts said:

Will it ever be possible to have a vag tdi that quick?

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Lol... No, it won't be.

Good job guys darkside.
Greetings.

Satiro said:

Lol... No, it won't be.

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The only way I could see it possible would to somehow build a dragster from a 4.2 TDI lump. But even then, unless it had awesome traction and a transmission to boot, it would struggle to beat an 8 second quarter.

numbnuts said:

Will it ever be possible to have a vag tdi that quick?

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Sure. It's possible with other pretty small diesels so can't see reason why not.
For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-jYkEwqY8

diffas said:

For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-jYkEwqY8

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where in the hell you see that awful thing to be seemed to a vag tdi?
It has fiberglass body, rear wheel drive,etc.

Check the keyword 'other'.

diffas said:

Sure. It's possible with other pretty small diesels so can't see reason why not.
For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv-jYkEwqY8

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Check the keyword 'sure'

can't you see the reason why not? you are comparing apples to oranges maybe...

Satiro said:

Check the keyword 'sure'

can't you see the reason why not? you are comparing apples to oranges maybe...

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B please. Tell me more! I'm probably missing some point you have.

diffas said:

B please. Tell me more! I'm probably missing some point you have.

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wrong! i have not any point more...
I'm completely out of those 'races'...
I'm waitting see one VAG TDI CAR(while it still been a car) been so fast, so please, point it to me when you are SURE about it, i will be glad to see it...

New arches ready!!

What brand tires do you run???

More pics and descriptions needed Ryan. at the moment this is probably the most interesting thing in the whole of the internet!

in germany an mk1 fwd 1.9 AFN runs 10.8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3-FOF377s&list=UUt6wkv4xeKT9vgJQr3SRMsA

sali87 said:

in germany an mk1 fwd 1.9 AFN runs 10.8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e3-FOF377s&list=UUt6wkv4xeKT9vgJQr3SRMsA

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Friend, there is good in all side projects, for example in Portugual we ibiza 1.9tdi 8v doing 10.8sec.
Arosa is getting better

I put this on FB last night, just so people know what is going on here, the engine nearest in the shot is FUBARED and the race is on Sunday:

When you have engine problems with the race car and the race is only a few days away, do you:
A) Not race
Or
B) Strip the engine out from your daily driver van and put that in the car to make the race on Sunday
A picture paints a thousands words they say...



We wont break any records until mid season, too much to sort and not enough time to get max power from this!

How's that saying go....you can sleep in your car, but you can't race your house

Details on the fubared engine?

Just seen the dyno plot for this Ryan, gutted I can't make it to Springfest now

I think the Cruze Diesel will get somewhere soon.. Suncoast already mentioned in there article on the Cruze Diesel in Diesel Power that they are working on bulletproofing the 6spd auto trans and coming out with a upgraded torque converter.. which will make it much easier to drag race..

This is the dyno graph we managed to get the day before racing:



This was the result:



I need to learn how to drive better with these tyres on a warmer day with less headwind!

Videos's later today!!

Interesting you got only 1 tenth slower than with the nuts 1.9 8v, but over 10 mph slower. Better traction this time around?

Ignore the 10mph thing - for some reason my head said you had 140mph ETs last time around?!

Hi good job

you have a dyno before 16s ? for compare

ryanp said:

I need to learn how....

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to resize your photos? the plot is three times the width of my screen haha
it's always nice to see some good results

1.79 0-60 time is not bad at all ! Definitely hooking up much better this year.The warmer weather will help and the track will probably be prepped better as well.

575 ft-lbs on nitrous! that's a big TQ number for our little engines. The engine is breathing good right to redline even without nitrous. nice work Ryan!

What gearbox takes ~800nm?!

devonutopia - Actually was 0.05 seconds slower, which is not bad for ~100bhp less. We got the 60' Times down by ~0.2 seconds, which gave a big improvement on the ET. We have wider tyres and a better gearbox for that.

The best Terminal we had before was 141mph, best we had on Sunday was 132 so 9mph down. We will get it back when we have closer to 500bhp again

I am more pleased with the initial acceleration, which we measured with a Race Logic GPS Performance Box -
0-60mph - 3.5s
0-100mph - 6.84s
These were both on the 10.9 run.

gerico_200 - We posted it somewhere on Facebook last year, was not a pretty graph, the Nitrous make it go really weird.

Dakta - Sorted, Scott had to help me with it ;-)

andy2 - Thanks Andy, yeah its a lot better than last time, now we don't have 4th Gear wheelspin! We are hoping to get closer to 1.6 or even 1.5 would be great, but it will take a lot of practice and dialing in the car. The track was cold, it makes a big difference. At Ultimate Street Car, where we got the 10.88 it was a fully glued track and pretty warm, perfect conditions. The headwind was also bad at the weekend, but it always is at Santa Pod!

TDIsyncro - We were shocked when it did it, but the torque is also strong without NOS. This is on a completely stock BKD 16v Engine, the Ported Head we had on the race engine spooled a GTB2260VK really fast! We want 6000rpm when the Race Engine is back on there.

bhodgkiss - Stock 02M Gearbox with Quaife LSD and Shifter Forks modded. Then one of our SMF Kits with a 4 Paddle Disc. No drama up to now

We got a video up on YouTube last night for those who want to see it
http://youtu.be/6u1t6kvI16s

Someone in the crowd also filmed one of the slower runs from the start line (along with a 100bhp 1.6 GTD Caddy, which did some 17s if I remember correctly!)
http://youtu.be/sH5ChKcZDtY

I really need a set of drag radials. 3.5 seconds to 60 is nuts for a front wheel drive car.

ok thank You Ryanp

In portugal seat ibizia is the best ..
this year will go to santa pod take title to seat arosa: P
Look

http://youtu.be/tRxmMCgudtc

Portugal in small cars are great machines ... "just some attention"

hope to see them soon, last year they made a lot of talk and never came