I have been enjoying my Golf 5 GTI but suddenly the car started feeling weak. It was almost like the car didn’t boost. You could hear the turbo is doing something but the power wasn’t there. I did not get any warning lights that there is something wrong. Am I just used to the car […]
Everyone that know me, knows that when I start to play with my cars I can’t stop. It is like a drug to me. I had the Superchips Stage 2 software on my Golf 5 GTI. The software states it is a requirement to run a aftermarket intake. The intakes go under many names, dome […]
After doing so reading up about the TFSI engines it became clear that the cars running these engines has a lot of potentials. I wanted to do something else on the car but didn’t know what. Next thing I got a call from a friend saying that he had fitted a downpipe on his Golf […]
Till now I have only been exposed to Standalone of aftermarket Engine management. They are perfect for race car builds or if you fit another engine in your car and need to control it in some way. I know you could send you ECU in to get it reflashed with racing maps for higher octane […]
In 2010, I was still driving my 1997 Polo Classic that I have had forever. The car had some issues from time to time. This is what happens if you push parts way past what they are designed for. I was thinking of getting myself a proper day to day car, and then the Polo […]
Everything was coming together nicely. I was giving the mechanical side of things a bit of a rest while I take on the cosmetic side. I had everything laid out so it was like putting together a TECHNICS LEGO set. The first part to go in was the charger cooler radiator in the nose of […]
Now that the car had some paint on it it wasn’t done yet. The car has only been sprayed and has not been wet flat or buffed up. As the car was already very shiny I was looking forward to seeing what the Porsche was going to look like when Duncan was done with his […]
It was time to get some paint down on the body. My good friend Duncan was the only person that I would trust with prepping and spraying of the Porsche. Mike loved his black cars. His Aston Martin DP9 was black and so was the Porsche. The color we decided on for the Porsche was […]
Finally, I started looking at the engine. I knew this engine has blown head gasket from the time when the radiators blew and the engine overheated. I just didn’t want to put the engine back in the car in this condition. The engine didn’t fit my “2 Million Rand Car” picture. I asked my one […]
The build of the Porsche 917 was going really slow. I didn’t get much time to work on the car. It was time to get the body fixed up. This was the most damage we have ever seen on the Porsche. We were lucky in the sense that we still had the mold for the […]