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Back in 2019 we collated all the build photos of Stef's SRS Automotive Caddy Van. You can view that by clicking the image below The one thing is was missing was a proper engine! Stef suffered for a long time with only 240bhp, so we decided to give him the same Engine as our CitiGo which should give it a good kick up the rear! Part 1 of the video is a walkaround of the van showing the attention to detail of the whole build, before we rip out the stock engine. Part 2 shows us going th …

With the MSV Trackday Championship over with, we could have some fun. If you haven't read about the TDC Championship, click below:. As the season finale, held at Brands Hatch in Kent, hosted the SuperCup and Trackday Trophy races on the same day as the TDC, we thought it would be pretty cool to do all 3 races. The timetable is below, with back to back qualifying sessions for all 3 races, then only a gap of around 1hr between the TDC and SuperCup Race, the team needed to be on point! We c …

Something a little different to what we normally do race wise, we decided early on in the year to enter the 750 Motor Club Birkett 6 Hour Relay Race which takes place every year at the end of October on the Silverstone GP Circuit.Instead of a straight race or normal endurance format, the relay element is for the driver AND car. Basically, a car and driver goes out, does their stint (which can be anything from 1 lap up to 3hrs of driving), and when they come back in the pits, a second car and d …

Last year with the Arosa was a disappointing one, mainly because we only managed to do just over 30 runs at Santa Pod over the full year, as we didn't get chance to do anything with it until BugJam in July. We also had the problem (as does everyone else) that with Santa Pod being the only purpose built drag strip currently in operation, whenever there is an event, the queues are so big that you can only grab a handful of runs each day. With the expense of preparing the car and getting to the str …

What do all drag cars need? Nitrous! We have the WON Kits fitted to a number of big power projects, both ones that are used on the drag strip Our Arosa - 633bhp & 680Ft/Lbs Jerome's Ibiza - ~450bhp & ~550Ft/Lbs And ones that are used on the road Bora ASZ - 449bhp & 580Ft/Lbs Roberto's Fabia - 364.6bhp & 475ft/lbs We can supply the full range of Wizard of NOS Products, but currently just list 3 of the most popular Diesel Specific kits WON Street-Blaster 150D Dry Nitrous K …

Cooling is essential, especially on track! In Part 15 of this series we fit our in house developed engine and gearbox oil coolers as well as a custom larger radiator in preparation for the Nurburgring! Knowing from past track experience that cooling is vital we did not want to take any chances with this engine. The 3.0 TDIs run a 95c Thermostat from the factory, so we set about modding a brand new one to open closer to 80c, and while the front end was stripped down it made sense that all of the …

This one blog is summarising 2 Video's of our Audi A5 3.0 TDI Project! Part 14 and 14.2. Back in Part 8 we travelled over to John Sleath Race Cars to carry out a series of upgrades on our car whilst on the dyno, taking it from 228bhp - 340bhp in the same day. Since then a lot has been happening, and not just with the car... We have recently purchased our own 4WD Dyno Dynamics rolling road. This is something we have had planned for a while but when one came up at the right money we could not refu …

As we plan to run our A5 on the track and have a trip to Spa and the Nurburgring planned in a few weeks time, we thought it wise to install at least a half roll cage, and from past track car experience, we wanted bucket seats and harnesses too to stops us sliding around! We had a look online and nothing that was easily obtainable (most cages were in the USA) or reasonably priced, so we decided to speak to Matt at Slide Motorsport, as they made the cage in our BMW. After a bit of discussion we re …

Some subscribers to our YouTube channel will have already watched the 2 part series on tuning the latest 2.0 engine VW have to offer Part 1 Part 2 We find the Mk7 / MQB Platform 184 models with the CUNA or CUNA Engine code usually produce between 170 and 180bhp on our dyno in standard form. The GTD in the videos made 170bhp when flashed back to stock, 177bhp on an updated stock file, 188bhp with previous old tune that quoted 230bhp and then 209bhp with our custom remap. This was no …