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Tony Gillham is organising a 'Hot Lap Day' on the 27th June at brands hatch in the Regal MK5 VW Cup car (build thread in my sig below) and also the 366 BHP track ready Regal Astra VXR, obviously i know you guys are going to be more interested in the cup car!
The prices are £35 for 3 laps in the passenger seat of either of the cars, or £50 for 3 laps in the passenger seat of each. This includes the insurance for your time on the track. The cars will be driven by Tony, and he knows brands like the back of his hand - this will probably the fastest you'll ever lap this track!...
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Update: Some of you might know the Volkswagen Racing 2007 Season started for us just over two weeks ago. We finished preparing the car for the opening round at Oulton park at the last minute, about 9pm on the sunday with the our scurtineering for season commencing at 7.30 on monday morning.
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Here'e some photos of the car on the dyno and just before it left for testing on tuesday. That was a track day we attended to shake the car down, there's still a few more things that need to go on the car before the season starts, but there car is drivable and on the track. we've come a long way since collecting out lovely white GTI road car.
First "proper" test is at donnington parkthis weekend. It's going to be interesting....
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Update is, car now has the KW coilovers, Alcon 343mm Brakes, Team dynamics wheels and as i'm typing this the AWE exhaust is being fitted....
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Ok, the car is back from paint and in the workshop undergoing it's transformation....
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Cage is in, interior has been painted and the car is due back from the paint shop today for us to start work on building the car.
Brakes, suspension, wheels, exhaust etc. We have people on this car full time to get it set up for the season opener. Things are about to move along very quickly. I'll be sure to keep you updated....
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Quick update. The interior has been stripped and is ready for a new colour! Here's the Golf as it currently stands....
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The race exhaust has arrived from AWE Tuning in the USA and the turbo manifold from Dbilas in Germany. This is how the standard manifold compares to the new Dbilas cast manifold that will be going on the car:
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The MK5 GTI has arrived. And the only modification we've carried out so far, added a EVOMS V-Flow air intake which gave us a really good power gain, I can host the dyno sheet if people are interested. This was installed as a demonstration for Auto Express magazine, but the intake will feature on the race car....
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Last year Regal Autosport and Tony Gillham entered the Volkswagen Racing Cup in a New Beetle 2.8 24v VR6 backed by GIAC and VF Engineering. The lime green Beetle was a firm favourite with the fans, and Tony's skill as a driver meant that it was always up there with the front runners, but an unavoidable Startline accident early on in the season menat that the car needed to be repaired and unfortunately this held us back from a really firm title challenge....