*PORSCHE EATER* The FASTEST VW GOLF 2 on The Nürburgring!!

Good morning comrades, welcome back to the channel, welcome back to the Nürburgring, amazing destination, Nürburgring track day today and we have here next to us the fastest golf on the Nürburgring in the world and it's builder, owner, founder and engineer and everything, Nige. Hello, how are you doing? Hello, I'm doing fantastic. Good, it's a wonderful day today to go out for some laps. Yeah, yesterday was a bit wet but today's dry, conditions are perfect, it's not too hot, fantastic conditions. Wonderful, so we did a lap already a couple of years ago, we featured this car but for people who are new to the channel and I think you've probably done a couple of things to it ever since. It never stopped. Exactly, it never stopped, so let's give it a quick update. So originally on the outside it's a Golf Mk2, was it the GTI originally? CL. CL. Golf CL, it's no sunroof, that's the difference. It now has a roof scoop. Yeah, multi-purpose. Yeah. But the most important or the most prominent and the most special part about this car is again, you built it everything by yourself. Everything by myself, lots of tests, lots of development, quite a few changes but yeah, the splitter, the air dam, so the air down there, they feed for the cooling for the brakes, the splitter, I find these wires were necessary to stop that going about 150 miles an hour, it was bending down and touching the floor. So you can probably almost stand on it? I can stand on it, yeah. Wow. You can stand on the splitter. Yeah, that's important. Yep. So in here you've got an oil cooler that's all ducted, duct there for the intercooler and for the water radiator, that makes about 15 degrees water cooling temperature, with that being open or closed off. Fiberglass bonnet, that scoop there is to suck the air out from behind the radiator, so it goes in through the grill or through the vent and then out through the back and over the windscreen. Okay, we'll get back to the engine later, let's continue with the aerodynamics mods. Wheel arches, these are plastic arches on fiberglass wings I made myself, these have got a vent at the back to get the hot air, high pressure air out of the wheel arch, you can see there where you go over stones, you sometimes get some chips in there and mark them. Front brakes, I'm not aware of any larger brakes on the Mk2 Golf on track, they're 364mm, 36mm thick brakes off a current British touring car, 6-port AP Pro 5000 with Project Mu pads. And that's to get the car on the jacks? That's the jack, yes, with the aluminium side skirts, it's got a full flat floor, so I can't get a jack underneath it, this skirt helps make a tunnel down the center of the car to stop the air spilling out underneath, so these are welded into the bottom of the roll cage area, put a bar in and it lifts the car up from the jack. Going further to the back, again wheel arch extensions, I have spacers between the stub axle to increase the rear track, standard Mk2 Golf rear brakes, it doesn't need any more, it's so light at the back end, I can lock up the rears if I put too much bias on the back, so those and some padded RS pads, and that's fantastic, that's all it needs. And then more aero on the back? More aero on the back, the flat floor that comes all the way down from the splitter feeds this diffuser, this is a fibreglass diffuser that I made, it started out aluminium and this one is a fibreglass one, the little gurney flap on the back just helps extend the effective length of the diffuser. Gurney flap on the diffuser, that's something I haven't seen before. It's the same on the wing, it just extends the effective length apparently, ties it up, standard boot, plastic rear window, the rear wing was added a few years ago, it used to run without, what I did, I fastened a lot of pieces of wool to take photos and see what the airflow was doing at the back of the car, fitting this wing stopped the air spilling up as much, and it now only spills to about there, and then it joins further back, where before it was quite dirty at the back of the car. So it's not massive in terms of effectiveness, but it's in cleaning up the airflow, that's its main purpose. LMP1 Golf development in your backyard? Not quite as excessive, but I use those race series for ideas, for inspiration, they spend money testing, I can't do that, mine is all experimentation, good engineering practices, read aerodynamic books, try and understand what's happening, and why they do certain things, and develop that for a quite square-fronted Mk2 Golf, so it's not always interchangeable. Nice, and on the inside? Yep. Looks pretty standard so far. Yeah, we've got the wing seats, which we can use on this track day, you can't use them on TF of course, but this is a track car, it is road legal in the UK, I do drive it when I'm doing testing, but very rarely, it's not comfortable at all. Wing seats, full six-point schroth harnesses, it's not a sequential gear shifter, I get asked that so many times, it's a standard Mk4 Golf shifter, but it's raised off the floor, so it's a lot easier to reach from your hand. The dash in the middle is a digital dash, it's a DTA digital dash that reads everything off the ECU, it will come on in a moment. Oh, it's even your car on it? It's my car on it as well, and that's everything from all the temperatures, pressures, revs, boost. That's all you need? Yep, that's all you need, and we've got a roof vent in the top, which gets a massive amount of air out there, large mirror in the back, and camera, and it started out as a six-point cage, but as you can see with the gussets in, down by the air pillars, I've added quite a lot of strength. It used to struggle to open the doors on the car when it was jacked up, it's a Mk2 Golf, the shell bends and twists as you jack it up, since I added all the gussets in and tied it into the shell and to the rear turrets, you can jack the car up and close the doors a lot easier, so I know it stiffens the shell, and it also stops windscreens cracking, because the chassis used to flex so much, a stone chip would crack really quickly, now I got a crack a couple of weeks ago, and that it stayed like that, and that it's purely down to the screen not being able to twist and deflect like it used to do. Okay, well so far on the inside and outside, so what's underneath the bonnet? It's a Mk3, 16-valve, 2-litre engine. Okay. That's not all, it started out as that, as a standard engine, and I modified it on throttle bodies, on Megasquirt, and then a few years ago I went to a better ECU, to DT ECU, it's running a current British Touring Car Turbo, which is a Garrett Current. Before you were running a Volvo Turbo, right? It was a Volvo Turbo before, mid-range it was fantastic, it was a great turbo to start with, this one keeps supplying boost all the way to the top, where the Volvo one was running out of puff, it gets hot under there. Full three-inch exhaust system from there, all the way back, that's for the external wastegate, which you can just see is tucked down there. The gearbox is an 02S, six-speed VW gearbox, with a gripper plate diff, this is a breather for the diff, it's been running quite warm yesterday, with the slicks this morning in particular it was running quite hot, and the diff's really working hard, you can't touch the gearbox after a lap. Everything else? The numbers? The numbers, I have three boost settings, so I have actuated pressure at 0.6 bar, which is about 280 horsepower, I have a button on the steering wheel, which then switches on boost by gear, that gives me between 310 and 360, so third gear is about 310, fourth is about 330, 50 is 315, 60 is 360. Wow. And then I have a button on the steering wheel, which instantly goes to 1.6 bar, and that's about 440, so that's an overtake button. And all that on the Mk2 Golf CL. If I try to deploy the full boost in the lower gears, it just spins up the front wheel, so it has to be controllable, there's no point having all the power if you can't get it on the track, or you speed up and burn out your tyres. Last thing we didn't mention, suspension. Suspension, KW Club Sport, it's KW Club Sport, stiffer springs than usual, but also I've done some roll centre and bump steer correction, the standard Mk2 has bump steer quite bad when you lower it, the roll centre is really bad, I had to drop the wishbones quite a bit, and that made a massive difference on steering. I've also increased caster, I've now got over six and a half degrees of caster, it's one and a half at standard, so that gives me a lot of negative camber while I'm turning the wheel and getting cornering. Well, more in the video description, and now let's go for a lap. Let's go. I love how it is carton fibre. If you listen, that tapping, that's the exhaust, which I thought was the engine, and my heart sank. Oh, I was gutted, but yeah, it's a track manifold, I can fix that. You will get cool air, I don't know if it affects your camber too much, that's all. I will work around it. Okay, well, if you want to, that's your vent there, Misha. Okay. If you close it, if you think you might get too much camber noise, because that's what happened on the first time, if you remember. Cool. When we go around the carousel, you will hear a high pitch squealing, it's the power steering pump behind my seat. Okay. It's just disconcerted if you're not aware of what the noise is at first. What's this light? So, I have an AccuSump, which is an oil container, it's like a big syringe full of oil, and when the engine sees low oil pressure, the AccuSump pushes the oil into the engine to maintain oil pressure, which is down here. On left-handers, the design of my sump, even though I have baffles, I get oil starvation, that's what destroyed my crankshaft last year. Okay. So, the AccuSump is there as a backup, and so I know it's working, I put it on its light, it's on left-handers, so as I'm going around the left-hander, I can see that in my eyeline, and I know that the AccuSump's working, and it's saving the engine. Nice. That's fine. Well, that was wonderful. I hope you guys enjoyed this lap. If you want to find out more, check out the video description for Nigel's YouTube channel, he has a lot more videos, as well as probably Instagram. Do you have Instagram? Instagram, yeah, hashtag Pindawagon. Yeah, yeah, give him a follow, and stalk him with more questions, and maybe if you pay him enough, he will build some LMP1 car of your shitbox. Thank you very much. Are we safe? Yeah, we're safe, it's just the plastic I dropped on the exhaust that I told you. Okay, cool. Thank you. Thanks. I'm just going to check it myself now. Hey, mate, you all right? Good, how are you? I'm good, thank you. I couldn't get it out, and it stuck to it, so it's just some plastic that I dropped down there. Oh, that's all right. Stuck to the manifold, and it's burning itself away. It'll find its home. Its home will be in fumes. Converting it to a gas. Yes, exactly. Gas-powered car. Yeah.