Project Great White

[mfbmike]

Interesting.

[Ryan E.]

Starting my new OEM+ Brake Arsenal for Fastivus Prep:

1. RacingBrake 2 piece Rotors - check
2. Hawk HP+ Front Pads - check
3. Rear Hawk HPS Pads - Ordered
4. G2 blue caliper paint - Ordered
5. Rear OEM Rotors - pick up @dealer today
6. High Temp Black Paint for Rear rotors - pick up @Pep Boys today
7. Front Caliper Clips, pick 2 extra from the dealer to get polished

Pics soon to come!

[Oils]

Great looking ride cant wait for FASTIVUS!!!!

[Ryan E.]

It's on!

Great looking ride cant wait for FASTIVUS!!!!

[JohnnyvDub]

Sick!!!

[Ryan E.]

Finally got around to putting on new pads and rotors all around. The stock front rotors with EBC Yellowstuff pads still had a lot of life left in them, I think I'll save them for a back up set. The rears were the original brakes that came on the car, they still had about 4mm left on them. Man, the rear caliper brackets that use a 12 point bolt were a pain to loosen. The area around the bolt is so tight, you have to go from underneath, and I only had a regular length 3/8" socket, no way to get a 1/2" breaker bar on them. I had to use a dead blow mallet to loosen them and that still took a bit.

Brakes are goods to go and I left the car off at the body shop to get the rear bumper repaired as well as some hood chips and misc stuff handled. Someone tapped my bumper in a parking lot and took off, go figure

Friday I'll do a oil change and install my BFI lower engine mount replacement for the VF I have, this one is 90 durometer. Then off to Fastivus Saturday!

New Brake Setup:

• RacingBrake 2 Piece front rotors w/Hawk HP+
• Stock Rear Rotors w/painted hats and Hawk HPS

During break in the car seemed to rev up a little faster and feel lighter. I didn't get on it too much since I was bedding the brakes, more info to come...

[Uncle Wiggley]

You went with the BFI lower mount over the HPA puck? curious why, or are we going to have a loaded Fastivus Raffle box for it.

[Ryan E.]

I got it before the sale happened, so I figured I'd just use it. When this one goes I'll get a puck. Keeping fingers, eye's, toes crossed I can win something

You went with the BFI lower mount over the HPA puck? curious why, or are we going to have a loaded Fastivus Raffle box for it.

[Ryan E.]

Here's a short video of my last run before heading out @Fastivus. This was my first time running Buttonwillow, I have to say this it's my new favorite track. Best time was 2:16.2. The new front brake setup performed great.

After the event my friend and I stopped at Titas for some bomb eats, here's a pic with car loaded up.

[mfbmike]

Always love your track videos man. Looks like so much fun.

[Uncle Wiggley]

Good video, what was the temperature out there?

Nice to meet you on Saturday

[Ryan E.]

Thanks mfb!

Always love your track videos man. Looks like so much fun.

It was in the low 80's, just hot enough for my car not to overheat. Gonna finally order that oil cooler next week so I don't have to worry about anything.

Likewise, good meeting you Wiggles!

Good video, what was the temperature out there?

Nice to meet you on Saturday

[Uncle Wiggley]

Oil cooler? are you having a custom one made? hmmm very interesting.

[Nebby]

Oil cooler? are you having a custom one made? hmmm very interesting.

Ryan: You're gonna do a similar setup to Nebulizer II's oil cooler right? http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4512779

[gottiR32]

How are the rims holding up??? Easy to keep clean or what...

[sixteen10]

Epic Video

[cleanA3]

Looking good , got a good set up going

[Ryan E.]

Gonna go with the Nebulizer II setup: Mocal Sandwich Plate/Mounting Kit with Setrab 20 row, it's been proven so why try something else.

Oil cooler? are you having a custom one made? hmmm very interesting.

I am, are the SoCal R32 discounts on the Setrab unit still available? I'd like to order the setup early next week. If not, no worries.

Ryan: You're gonna do a similar setup to Nebulizer II's oil cooler right? http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4512779

The wheels are holding up great, I keep them waxed and use the brush below to keep them in good shape. I also just order some Sonax Wheel Cleaner to replace the Meguiars Body Soap I usually use, I guess it helps cut the iron deposits from the pads. I couldn't be happier with the wheels.

How are the rims holding up??? Easy to keep clean or what...

Thanks, gotta represent the MKV R's, they're great cars even though the MKIV R guys don't think so

Epic Video

Thanks, I'm diggin your new setup too

Looking good , got a good set up going

[infiniteecho]

What is the noise under braking in the second video?

Doesn't sound like engine overrun... is that the RB slotted rotors?

You could hear and slightly feel my slots (no homo) when my rotors were first put on, but I've since worn down the edges some and I no longer have that noise. Then again I haven't tracked the car yet so I haven't pushed them that hard.

[Ryan E.]

This is now my second time bedding in rotors with race pads and it seems as every time I have to bed them in I can never get them up to race temps on the street. I even did a double bed in procedure and got them to smoke on the street. So, in my first session I cooked them pretty good to finish the bed in procedure, I had to run through staging for like a minute to have the come back down to proper temp, but usually after this first occurrence, I have that sound until they've had time to sit over night and cure so to speak.

I also found that I was braking too hard, these new rotors have much less rotating mass so it takes a lot less pedal pressure to brake. I adjusted my braking after I ran through staging.

I looked at the calipers mid day and they turned pretty dark, so they must have gotten pretty hot. The next track session I do I should be able to give more feedback.

I've never heard anyone talk about this much so it's reassuring that you've experienced the same issue, ha, no homo

What is the noise under braking in the second video?

Doesn't sound like engine overrun... is that the RB slotted rotors?

You could hear and slightly feel my slots (no homo) when my rotors were first put on, but I've since worn down the edges some and I no longer have that noise. Then again I haven't tracked the car yet so I haven't pushed them that hard.

[infiniteecho]

This is now my second time bedding in rotors with race pads and it seems as every time I have to bed them in I can never get them up to race temps on the street. I even did a double bed in procedure and got them to smoke on the street. So, in my first session I cooked them pretty good to finish the bed in procedure, I had to run through staging for like a minute to have the come back down to proper temp, but usually after this first occurrence, I have that sound until they've had time to sit over night and cure so to speak.

I also found that I was braking too hard, these new rotors have much less rotating mass so it takes a lot less pedal pressure to brake. I adjusted my braking after I ran through staging.

I looked at the calipers mid day and they turned pretty dark, so they must have gotten pretty hot. The next track session I do I should be able to give more feedback.

I've never heard anyone talk about this much so it's reassuring that you've experienced the same issue, ha, no homo

Interesting. I've never run racing pads either. So that wouldn't surprise me I guess that there is a bit more noise from them as well.

Only got them smoking? You're not doing it right then! 12 near-stops from 120 mph in a row with the only cooling time being the time it took to get back to 120mph left me with lots of smoke and red-hot rotors. Last 'stop' was very scary. Yay abandoned air strips! This was in my G35 which also had stoptechs.

Have any pics of the rotors and calipers after the track day? I'd like to see how the rotors look after building up a nice layer of track pad.

[Ryan E.]

I'm not sure where I could do a break in like that, but that's what I needed, hahaha.

The cars sitting dirty in the garage, so I'll take some pics this weekend before I exfoliate.

Interesting. I've never run racing pads either. So that wouldn't surprise me I guess that there is a bit more noise from them as well.

Only got them smoking? You're not doing it right then! 12 near-stops from 120 mph in a row with the only cooling time being the time it took to get back to 120mph left me with lots of smoke and red-hot rotors. Last 'stop' was very scary. Yay abandoned air strips! This was in my G35 which also had stoptechs.

Have any pics of the rotors and calipers after the track day? I'd like to see how the rotors look after building up a nice layer of track pad.

[wrturnerjr]

Yet another .:R on the track- Awesome!!!!

[Ryan E.]

Decided it was time to finish my cooling system so I can move to making more power.

Setrab Oil Cooler Series 9/20 row:


2 Pushlock fittings for the cooler:



Mocal Sandwich and mounting kit, similar to this but with pushlock fittings:


I'll be discoupling the water/oil heat exchanger so I can keep temps regulated at the track, after about 10 minutes the car is getting heat soaked by running warm, border line red. When it's hotter than low 80's I'm having issues. So, this combined with my Mishimoto should keep temps in check.

actual pics coming soon...

[cleanA3]

Decided it was time to finish my cooling system so I can move to making more power.

Setrab Oil Cooler Series 9/20 row:


2 Pushlock fittings for the cooler:



Mocal Sandwich and mounting kit, similar to this but with pushlock fittings:


I'll be discoupling the water/oil heat exchanger so I can keep temps regulated at the track, after about 10 minutes the car is getting heat soaked by running warm, border line red. When it's hotter than low 80's I'm having issues. So, this combined with my Mishimoto should keep temps in check.

actual pics coming soon...

that should be a nice set up,where did you get the setrab stuff from

[Ryan E.]

I got the Setrab Oil Cooler from this shop that's local to me: http://www.bakerprecision.com/

The site isn't the nicest but hey, they had the cheapest price from all the searching I did ($220) and their customer service has been great. I had them order me the Setrab fittings to go with the cooler since their stuff is such high quality. I didn't want mis-match couplers and don't want this to be a weak link.

that should be a nice set up,where did you get the setrab stuff from

[kevinivek]

love everything about your build

[Ryan E.]

Overdue for some updates, haven't driven the car since Fastivus over a month ago. Gonna break out a detail session this weekend with a bunch of new products I got from Detailers Domain.

The Mocal VR6 Oil Cooler Kit came in, the cooler itself and 2 extra 90° Setrab fittings should be in sometime next week. Here's what comes with the kit along with 2 additional pushlock straight fittings which I don't need. Armandobmx is rounding up some R32 peeps for a track event next month at California Speedway, so that should be the perfect time to put the cooler to the test. Looking forward to no heatsoak...

[abeR]

[mfbmike]

What aber said. It's retarded how hot our engines get.

[willlangford]

Good stuff Ryan!

[wrturnerjr]

Most awesome! (said with best Bill & Ted Canadian accent)

Looking forward to a oil cooler install thread.

Thanks Ryan.

[cleanA3]

looking real good , what did the mocal kit run you

[Uncle Wiggley]

Ryan-What dates are you looking at for Cal Speedway?

[Ryan E.]

Armandobmx is rounding up some peeps to go out Aug 13th. Here's the discount info he was able to get:

You must have a minimum of 5 drivers signed up for the event by FRIDAY, AUGUST 5.
- Have your members enter "R32 Discount" in the comment section of our registration process. If they don't enter that, they will not receive the discount.
- Your discount is as follows: Drivers will receive $10 off for attending just Saturday. Anyone attending BOTH days will receive an additional $20 off. The minimum of 5 must attend Saturday, but it is not necessary for Sunday.
- The discount is taken off the base price at the time of sign up. We have a limited number of early sign up spots, so the price is subject to change at any time.
- Please do not post this on any public forums, message boards, etc. This is a discount for you and your friends only.

I'm going to Portland the week before, so I should be back in time.

Ryan-What dates are you looking at for Cal Speedway?