My friend just got his Exhaust installed. He also has an Intake.
His GTi is like a 2000 or something and he has the 5speed. I asked him if he wanted to race and he accepted.

We headed off to a dark country road with no one around but me, him, and some friends to watch the race.

We had someone with a flag to tell us when to go.

What I do:
turned off Traction Control
Put it into 1st gear gate
Brake TQ to 1,500rpms


We both start and he gets a jump because he has a manual and starts to walk on me most of 1st gear. Once I reach the upper half of the rev range, I start to gain and catch up. I moved the shifter into "2" and it shifts at about 7,100rpms. In 2nd gear, he again starts to walk on me but once the revs are above 6,300rpms, I start to gain and I finally get ahead of him. In third gear, he's at my door and stays there until once again I get above 6,300rpms and I start to pull hard this time. In 4th he starts to gain until he reaches my door again, BUT once I'm back into the HP cam's, I start to walk again and continue to until we stopped at 140mph. He was about 2-3 cars back now.

umm ok... why did that small car stay so close?

 

Power to weight ratio. Those little fuckers are lighter than our cars by a lot.

Watch out for the little MINI Cooper S, those little 4 bangers only weigh about a ton, and have a great balance, and a SUPERCHARGER! They hit the states this month, but I saw them on vacation in Barbados lastmonth. They come with nice paint, 17's and hella cornering ability, these would make great SCCA cars, better than the Miatas, 914's and MR2's.

Little shits can haul ass!!!

 

It's a vr6+stick+MODS+LIGHT WEIGHT

get some bolt-on mods like your friend and you will whoop him faster and easier

 

tell your friend to get an ECU chip..that thing will FLY

 

Yep, those buggers are fast. I had a tough time with one out at the 1/8th mile track.

 

I friend strapped a supercharger to one of those buggers. Plus all the usually goodies (intake, exhaust...etc etc).

Thing hauls all. Ugly as shit though.

 

haha yeh dose thingz move pretty wuickly

 

my pops has the same car, 99 v6, nuespeed help him trick it out like CRAZY

 

I destroyed a stock one a while back. It was no contest.

 

2001 GTI VR6 - I ran my friends from 50-120. I beat him pretty bad. 2+ Car lengths, and he had cai, ecu and NOS, but he wasn't using now.

When he used his 40 shot of nos, he pulled on me, but only got 1 1/2 cars on me the same distance, thats it.

 

I wonder John's view of that race


If you are going to race a GTI vr6.. race them high end.. they have no top end.. they have first 1 2 3 gears real short.. and great low end torque.. so if you race for a dead stop.. thats a going to be a suprise..

 

In my Max, always off the line he jumped on me at least a car, and it always pissed me off!! hehehe. But highway he defintely got his ass handed to him. Hehe. How did you know John? Yea ask him on the forum on vwvortex or texasracingscene.com he goes by madvw.