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Turbo VW GOLF

Juanmiguel

Juanmiguel

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So I went to the rack on friday. Guy on a turbo VW golf comes up to me and asks if I wan run against him. I never turn these guys down since I like to beat them. Everybody here thinks a VW Golf or Jetta is the best car in the world and act accordingly.

To me it has added value beating these guys straight up even if they have turbo swaps and what not. Even better, the guy had his girlfriend ridding with him during the run.

I walked the guy right from the start and kept pulling until the end.

My 1/4 mile ET was 14.60 vs his 16.15 (@5000ft).

I don't know about other stats since the idiots at the track only enable ET and RT... I don't know why, not even trap speed. Anyway mine is at around 150-160 kmh whatever that is in mph. The GTP shifts into 3rd gear @5900 rpm like a second before reaching the finish line with stock ratio.

My WOT LTFT was at -9 and I needed to add some fuel in the PE vs time table, so I could still have taken at least 1 tenth of a second off that ET easily, but it was my first run of the night.
 


So technically...he ran a...

13.694 @ 93-100...which is 150-160 kph.

It's probably closer to 160 kph since 13.6 is normally 100-105 trap speeds...I trapped 106 once at 13.3x.

Good runs though man...15.14 for a new Golf...is kinda lamesauce.
 


I had basically the same mods as the OP on my old GTP, except a 3.0 pulley. I also had stock injectors and they held up just fine.
 


That ET does seem a bit slow to me. . coming from a guy with similar mod's and higher elevation
i'm on rocker's,headers, E85,3.2(genV) and run 14.3's consistently at 5800ft
nothing heinously slow but i would expect a little more from it. . . .
 
E85...and a GenV with a comparable pulley size....are hardly comparable IMO.

Because I'd expect a rocker'd/Jinny5/E85/3.2" setup to run well into the 12's...especially down here.
 
Altitude doesn't affect boosted applications near as much as it does NA applications. NHRA only gives 1/2 correction to a boosted car. So that 14.60 only translates to 14.15.
 
not really, back when the GTP was stock, it ran 16.60s. I think they do 14.90s stock at lower altitudes.

LT1 camaros are also in the 16s around here. I also used to run a bone stock 5.0 TPI 85 trans am, ran 16.70s. Those are NAs though.

Boosted apps are affected equally the same IMO. The amount of oxygen in the air is still lesss, it doesnt matter if youre compressing it. its still compressed air with less oxygen in it.
 
No, they are not affected as much. They are shoving far more air into the car than can be had naturally. Its not about your opinion, its about racing boards standards. Look it up, boosted apps only get 1/2 factor. Its even a known FACT that boosted apps arent as affected as NA's. NA's suffer BADLY at elevation, whereas boosted cars are hardly affected.

And there is more to your time than just your ET. How bad was your launch? What was your 60'? What was your trap?

If you fu*ked the launch and got a 2.6 60' then that is going to make your time so much slower than it would be with a good launch. In a 1/4 mile race, the first 60' really makes or breaks a run.
 


i don't need to look it up, i'm the one who's running at higher altitude and has taken the same car to the sea and tested it. rather than take for a fact what i read on an internet page.
 
You are acting like a child now. Its a PROVEN FACT, and nothing you can say or do is going to dispell that boosted cars are not near as affected by altitude as NA cars.
 
well next time i go to the track i'll tell everybody that they should be running lower times because a guy with an NA car who hasn't tried to run at different altitudes with a boosted car saw on an internet page that we are all crazy.
 
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