Boost v Temp v Timing v Power

[Lito]

What a coincidence, I just stumbled apon this thread after completing this...

Everytime i turned my engine off, i couldn't touch that pipe because it gets soo hot, hopefully this will net some lower temps. I do reccommend taking the pipe off to wrap it though and probably wait until the engine cools down, I did neither of the above and have a nice blister on my left hand along with a few cuts and scrapes.

[seangti]

At the Polo dyno day I was seeing almost 90 degree IAT's on a fairly cool day
Don't think I'll be pushing it too hard on the track..

To reiterate the performance drop between hot and cold weather, the frosty trackday at QR was around 5-7degrees when on track compared to recently being mid 20's. I was consistently at least 5km/h slower on my top speed, being 188km/h Vs 183km/h, cornering speed and braking g-force was much the same/marginal across the varying temps, though obviously deteriorated after successive laps which is normal. It was much more evident that after a cool down lap, my following lap achieved higher top speeds.

Probably no surprise in what I've said above, but good to have firm data to back up the feel. The speeds were measured by an incar 10hz GPS logger, that's 10 recordings per second.

[dood9n3]

As said, the intercooler wont be adding power but rather holding onto the power thats already there

I have a wmi kit which I plan to fit some time soon but being revo tuned, means I will be able to drop settings via sps when I want to run without it on