cabby and rocco photoshoot

me and matty washed the cars today and decided to take a few pictures, enjoy.

the cab looks sweet on those rims!

yeah - my rims! but he's thinking about getting a set.

can anyone spot porky the pig in one of those pictures? the first person to post a reply with the correct location of the pig will win 1 jaffa cake at the next meet.

Yeah thought they were, needs to be wound down on the rear though!

5th pic down sittin on the wheel

cab looks rude on those rims

good work on the pig spotting ed. come and find me for you jaffa cake prize at the weekend

i want me rims back!, looks sweet

Matty defo needs to get his own set, looks fookin great. Will be having a close-up of that bay too, at the weekend

MarkGTX wrote:

me and matty washed the cars today and decided to take a few pictures, enjoy.

I see even that much money doesnt buy you a tidy engine bay then . How does it run? Has it been set up on rollers? From my experience of twin carbs that first carb fed from a T piece will be restricted for fuel a little more than the other carb. The first carb should have a twin barbed banjo fitting, one for the feed pipe and the other going off to the other carb.

When i have run T pieces on the engines i have run twin carbs on(including a 16v) the carb fed off the top part of the T gets less fuel than the other one and doesnt make the power it should do.


What happened to the BBS splits it had in the pics you showed? Did it not come with them?

also, you wanna get some sort of shroud set up or cold air feed for the carbs, cause when your driving along all they will be getting is hot air from the rad and when the fan comes on even more hot air.

Yeah it dint come with the bbs splits,

the bay its pretty much how hes done it not me, there is alot i would do to it 2 make it alot better but im not gonna spend the time and money on it, jus gonna run it for the summer then have the engine out.

the radiator hes used is to big thats the problem, ill be using a small ali 1 and slimline fan when i put it in the tintop.

the car aint at good as it looks in the pics but ive never claimed it 2 be.

ah yeah i see now, is it a mk2 16v rad in it? Would be good with an ali rad with some plastic ducting made up so no hot air goes into the carb throats.

What engines gonna go in this then after summer?

oh yeah, what ignition system is it running? 3d mapable or is it just running the standard kjet ecu?

ill put standard gti lump in it and sell it on i think,

yeah when i put it in the tintop itll prob go on bodies and will fab a box up 2 enclose all 4 bodies so they r all at the same pressure and air is there waiting sorta thing and have tubing feeding cold air in to that.

First dibs on the carbs matty

Nice cabby btw mate

matty_mk1 wrote:

ill put standard gti lump in it and sell it on i think,

yeah when i put it in the tintop itll prob go on bodies and will fab a box up 2 enclose all 4 bodies so they r all at the same pressure and air is there waiting sorta thing and have tubing feeding cold air in to that.

Yeah bodies are definately they way forward, would be nice to have it all enclosed with a cold air feed, perfect. You thinking of going with megasquirt? or a more off the shelf management system?

will be using dta management cuz thats wot johnny uses on most of the race cars, and works really well. hes sorted a few things on it yesterday and it runs loads better now

awesome, has it had any other work done? head work, cams, bottom end work or is it a standard KR on carbs. I think you said its on 45 dells didnt you?

its a standard audi 6a block with standard kr head at the mo on twin 45 dells

oh its a 6a, forgot you said it was a 2.0. Bet it sounds bloody awesome but i bet it drinks worse than mark . What exhaust system is it running?

yeah it does like its fuel, its jus got and ashley 4branch and stainless system 2 a horrible back box

whats the backbox its got on it then? Horrible as in loud/droney or as in you dont like the style of it?

What do you reckon it does on the MPG front or dont you care calculate it lol, what wheels is it running atm, is it the pslots on marks rocco?

Dunno the make of it, it sounds alright though jus dont rally like the twin pipes really.

im not 2 fussed wot it does mpg wise its more bout wot it does mph wise that i care about yeah its on the crappy old psluts

oh yeah spose you have got the diesel to worry about mpg lol. God i need an economical daily and a thirsty toy. Damn fuel lasts 5 minutes in my gti

yeah the a3 makes a pretty good daily although i dont really like driving it,
ive never really worried bout mpg 2 be honest its jus sumfin u have 2 do to get around aint it, fosel fuels aint gonna run out in my life time so i may aswell use wot i can

I take it the A3 is as numb and lifeless to drive as the leon was then? same engine isnt it just with the DSG? Does it have a nice unpredictable understeery chassis like the leon as well lol?

Yeah true, When i get my lazy ass a bloody proper job i wont care about MPG either just a bit hard running a GTi on money i get from doing odd car jobs for people and selling a few car parts lol.