Finally Road registered and Legal

[Red Ibiza VR6]

Just got this car engineered and registered, oh yeah and got some new plates. 8)









I`m very excited and its all going great so far. Goes on the dyno on Monday.

 

[Brummy]

like the red seats.. not seen one with them before... good luck with your Dyno 'run'

 

[Kev_D]

That looks great mate, glad you got it all sorted and i hope everything goes well with the dyno

 

[IbiVR]

Sweet, enjoy. Let us know about the dyno results - glad to see you got rid of the tiny exhaust before you dynoed it!

Tom.

 

[justinking]

looking good mate!

 

[Red Ibiza VR6]

Sweet, enjoy. Let us know about the dyno results - glad to see you got rid of the tiny exhaust before you dynoed it!
Tom.

Yeah mate, as soon as I got it home from the emissions test

 

[WeeC]

lookin good! nice reg to

 

[Red Ibiza VR6]

Just got a chrome vr6 badge for the grill, cheers ebay. Classy yet understated I think

 

[Red Ibiza VR6]

99.1kw at the wheels (133 Hp) I wanted 100, but at least it made a good noise. And obviously its all about the torque really. 99.1kw at 5500rpm is useful :roll:

 

[Red Ibiza VR6]

Got myself a VR6 badge

 

[frank_grimes]

good work, that would be one very wicked sleeper car..

 

[james_mk]

whats the bhp on that thing?

 

[james_mk]

sorry just worked it out...so its 132bhp???? thats not right isit for a vr6

 

[Red Ibiza VR6]

I thought they were 128hp stock.

 

[james_mk]

huh i was sure they were about 172 or 178 stock?.........

 

[hopkinsgm]

Bear in mind that there may be considerable differences between a stock UK spec VR6 and a stock Australian spec VR6... And remember that there are several variants of the VR6 in the UK anyway - originally cames as a 12v 2.8 or 2.9'sdepending in what it was fitted in. But yes, VAG figures for UK spec engines were a bit higher than that - IIRC (and it's more than possible that I don't), the 2.8 was rated at about 175bhp, the 2.9 about 190bhp.

 

[Red Ibiza VR6]

Dont they measure those numbers at the flywheel, not at the wheels?

 

[dougy69]

yes they do

 

[WeeC]

bruvs mk3 golf which is a 2.8 was 170 at flywheel when tested wee while ago

 

[hopkinsgm]

Yup, quite right red_ibiza_vr6 - it hadn't registered that you were posting wheel horsepower...

A coastdown measurement (like we use here in the UK to calculate flywheel bhp from wheel bhp) typically suggests transmission losses IRO 30-35% so wheels bhp figures around 130-135 bhp sound about right for a 2.8 12v VR6.

Please don't let this descend into a discussion about how valid coastdown measurements are...