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A month after Inters we were at Donington for VAG Tuner Live 2018. The only real changes, aside from a working braking system, were the Aero mods. We didn’t think we had tested the chassis enough to start pushing the Engine any further. Despite only having ~230bhp, the van performed brilliantly. The chassis feels great and will easily take another 100+bhp. The Craner Curves were an easy flat all the way from Redgate, through Hollywood down the Old Hairpin The only thing we found to be a …

On the same weekend as Round 3 of the MSV Trackday Championship (which you can read about here) a special event was scheduled for the Sunday Afternoon. It was a race, combining all entrants from the MSV Trackday Championship that we are in, with all classes mixed together, as well as Class B, C and D from the MSV Trackday Trophy - http://www.trackdaytrophy.co.uk/ More info about the TDC can be found on their website - http://www.trackdaychampionship.com/about-tdc/ Our Ibiza is in Class …

After an eventful first time racing in the Ibiza at Donington 15th April 2018, which you can read about here, we missed the 2nd round of the MSV Trackday Championship at Snetterton so we could improve the car as planned, and rejoined the action at Silverstone. More info about the TDC can be found on their website - http://www.trackdaychampionship.com/about-tdc/ Our Ibiza is in Class B. The regulations for the series are reasonably relaxed, so that most cars that have already been use …

Intro Dynamometers are a tool at the heart of the tuning and automotive industry. Being able to measure the power an engine produces is the only way to get a good indication of how much difference your new turbo, injectors or remap has really made. The power figures and graphs produced are the source of much speculation, competition and controversy in the industry. This is made worse by a general culture of misunderstanding by the public, which can be taken advantage of by those in the tuni …

Once the Chassis was done, we moved on to the interior, and got all the cage painted! With the cage painted and all dry, on to the fiddly and time consuming interior refit! I wanted to fit as much as possible with it being my daily driver, so we cut some Touran door cards around the cage and flocked the top to match the dash. I also fitted a rear view camera on an ignition live to use as a rear view mirror. Andy Forrest does this on his Time Attack Subaru so thought I'd give it a …

Our first ever race since acquiring a National B Licence took place on the 15th of April in our Red (and a bit black) TDi Ibiza We decided to enter the MSV TDC as the rules are fairly relaxed and a diesel car can still give the petrol cars a run for their money. It also works well for 2 driver teams, as it is a 45 minute race with a mandatory 2 minute pit stop, which allows for a driver change. The class structure is based upon Power to Weight ratio which is a very good way of keeping diffe …

After a number of inquiries regarding the variance in performance between vehicles fitted with DPF, removed DPF and cleaned DPF we thought it was necessary to carry out some specific testing so we could back up our predictions with data. The vehicle of choice was a 2012 1.6 VW Caddy Engine code CAYE, This vehicle had covered 150,000 miles on the original DPF and had a custom tune to ~139bhp. This was an ideal test vehicle as most start to suffer DPF & EGR issues around this mileage / age. W …

Over the past few years we have tuned a lot of PPD engines and suffered many problems along the way.These share pretty much all of the hard engine components as the BKD, but both engines have totally different issues, especially when we begin to tune them.InjectorsThe PPD engine run on a Siemens / Continental Injection and Management system. When these cars were fairly new, the Siemens injectors failed regularly. As soon as cars were out of warranty customers were faced with £300 per injector fa …

While the Caddy was away having some work done at Slide Motorsport, we thought we may as well get some parts ready for it's return, everything that could be has been blasted & powder coated by KTS Refinishing. We've tried to stick to the SRS Logo colours to keep a theme and I think it's worked out well. They've turned out so nice it's almost a shame to fit them as they won't be seen. Some parts needed to finish the re-build are still on the van but once it's back they will be sent for doing …