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Hi superkarl, are you having trouble seeing images?Incredible work mate. Truly inspirational. I love your out of the box thinking here.
You can win any race with an invisible car!
Incredible work mate. Truly inspirational. I love your out of the box thinking here.
You can win any race with an invisible car!
No mate it was just a sarcastic reply to your first post which was basically blank.
Looks a nice car. Did you buy it in that colour? It's had a respray.
With regards to building a race car, what kind? Also you're limited by your imagination and wallet really. Plenty of threads on here to read so check out the stickies at the top of the forum.
Where are you planning on doing your degree?
what a lovely colour, is it a kind of green? - I am coloured blind.
can't you get a 2K shed and turn that into a race car rather than a clean example of a future classic?
If your wanting to make a reliable race car then internals would need uprating
There are some excellent threads where people have turned their A3s into Track Cars - the underlying advice is that the engine internals are not capable of 300-350 the rods bend and come out the block.
If you are broke then where are you going to get the 4K to maintain and modify your car?
It will be a sad day when you remove the carpets, seats and dash - I expect the sunroof will go too - that is another 250grammes you oould save.
Most of the track day conversions on here buy £200 A3s and make them into 290+ monsters.
I have an S3 but the general opinion is they carry around a 30 stone haldex and associated components, which does very little on the track apart from make it slower.
I just wished George never posted those pictures of his beautiful standard S3. They are for Sundays, repairing and admiring their pretty rears when they're not on axle stands - not for drilling and cutting.
what turbo are you planning to use as a standard ko4 won't get you that bhp there's a few hybrids (bbt, aet, tte) ones about that will get you that and more if everything else is up to scratch
Haldex is the 4wd system it adds around 300kg over a Fwd 1.8t
okay you keep your car - this one has been looked after.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2002-Audi-S3-1-8-Quattro-3dr-/162201538741
this one has too - but many miles (but you will be changing everything and the Noggy is the quickest version)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Audi-S3-1-8-225bhp-2002-Quattro-/301994170891
my god - I got an awful car for myself.
good luck with your project - someone on here created his own wiring loom.
You would only need to go stage 2 to reach 175hp/tonne.
Does that take into account weight reduction? the s3 is 1420kg off the assembly line, plus me 70kg = 1490kg.
What can i predict ill loose through weight reduction? if i go all out that is?
You will need to get the car on a weigh bridge to get the exact weight with fluids etc.
280bhp at 1500kg = 186bhp at 1000kg
Thanks i didnt take fluids into account! So if i can save say, 400kg, that should put me in the Bhp/tonne limit comfortably.... is that a realistic weight save, 400kg?
Haldex is the 4wd system it adds around 300kg over a Fwd 1.8t
Haha sorry dude, yeh bought her in that colour. i beleive its dolphin grey (gloss)... or so ive been told.