How long before you think you can start road testing?
I actually took it for a quick spin last night in the pouring rain, what an experience to say the least 
A few final updates for this part of the build. The car leaves for Pikes Peak tomorrow morning. We didn’t get everything we want done but as we had to change into the Time Attack 1 area it required a lot more work to be done to the car to meet safety requirements! With any projects like this they are always a work in progress and for this years Pikes Peak we are in our “Stage 1” setup! As soon as the car comes back further work will be done. Today the car is at our sponsor Blitzgear (www.blitzgear.com) to get its livery for Pikes Peak! The team believes this car to be considerably faster than last years Scion 
Our wheels are also back from our bodywork and paint sponsor… and we couldn’t be happier!
Fastrack (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fastrack-Autobody-Ltd)
More to come…
For live updates from the hill head over to out title sponsors Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/shiftautosport or on instagram at http://instagram.com/shiftautosport
We will try to get some shots of the livery before it gets packed into the trailer!
Thanks for all the support and also thanks to Vortex for posting a picture from our build on their Instagram!
Live from the tech inspections at Pikes Peak!
Team Stops in Idaho for the Old Freezeout Hill Climb for a bit of a shakedown. Car did not have a DSG flash on it yet as you can hear in the video so the shift patterns were a bit off. Car got a DSG flash overnight and apparently is leaps and bounds better now!
Looks ridiculously fast!
Day one at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb has proven interesting for Sead. This morning our VW Jetta had a strong run up the first section but ran into issues near the end resulting in a 5’02" run placing Sead in 6th Place. Realizing there were some issues, the car was loaded into the trailer and headed to Denver to visit Bluewater Performance to have some work done! We just want to give them a huge thank you for giving us a hand! While there Sead got to have a look at their 1300hp Bonneville MK4! More updates as they arrive!
Follow Bluewater Performance on Facebook to check out what they are doing (if you already didn’t know!!!) --> https://www.facebook.com/BWPerformance
and check out their website at www.bwperformance.com
6th is still very respectable. How many were in the class? How far out of first were you guys?
Nice Job man.
Those guys at BW are good guys. They built my b7 a4 there.
Good job on the run man
6 out of 18 in the class and that was with only one run with the car giving out on the top third. Top of the class is Jeff Zwart who is running a factory backed Porsche so the gap between first and second has been pretty wide.
We can’t say enough good things about the guys at BW. They have been awesome and a huge help!
Looks like Romain Dumas is gunning hard for Loeb’s record!
A quick shot of the car being worked on from Bluewater Performance’s Facebook Page! www.facebook.com/BWPerformance
Again a big thank you to them, they have gone above and beyond!
Wonderful team effort all around. That was a big pack sixth is very respectable. Care to share what happened to the car? What’s next for you guys?
We aren’t 100% certain what exactly happened as there were a few issues that may have caused the failure.
For us we have quite a few events on the calendar including our final goal of running the 25 hours of Thunderhill but that is only if the stars and moons align ;D
After two solid days of work at Bluewater Performance, Sead is back racing at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb! Sead and the guys at Bluewater worked right up to the last minute yesterday and Sead literally left Denver and headed straight to the start line for this mornings runs!! We can’t thank Bluewater enough for their help!
You can always count on the motorsport and volkswagen communities to be there to lend a helping hand and we are happy to be a part of both!
A few videos from yesterday’s return to the hill!
Checking in from the top of Pikes Peak International Hill Climb!! CONGRATS SEAD! Amazing performance at this years race!
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Thank you to all the sponsors and individuals who made this all happen!
Congrats!!!
What happened to that EVO next to you?
Haha congrats! Great effort and great build
More to come now that the car is back, lots of work to do!
Here is the in-car for the run…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcm6Lt87OSk
and some footage from fan fest and a few other things!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGWTl1rgZs&feature=youtu.be
There are a few other videos being edited!
Terrific job on the updates. I’ve really enjoyed watching this progression. Tough break on the blown motor. Did you ever get to advance past your last standings?
Ended up with an 11th place result in the TA1 class which was over a minute improvement over the prior years result in the FR-S. Considering only getting to do 2 practice runs before the race and all the problems leading up to it we couldn’t be happier with the result! We are looking forward to next year and having a year to get the car really dialled in with a good number of events still to come.
Now that the guys have had a few days to rest, back to work on a few things on the car as we gear up for a few small events!
First things first is to get the 80mm throttle body working on the car and we think we may have figured it out! More on that soon! Also we are working on the DSG flash to get the shift patterns down as it wasn’t where we wanted it to be for Pikes Peak.
All in all it was a great first outing for the car for the short amount of time we had and we are already working towards next year to climb up the standings!
Here is a video from Engineers corner. The jetta appears around the 6:40 mark and then Ken Gushi pops around the corner at around the 7:00 mark!
Thanks again for all the support and there is a lot more to come!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QV6G1yFtok&feature=youtu.be&t=6m19s
Really awesome stuff theKB. Great work in getting your team together and riding the ups and downs. Everything you’ve learnt this time will get you up the leaderboard next time. Any other races planned?
Plus you were the best VW!
I’m just curious to know if you considered a bog standard 6mt manual and if there was a reason for going DSG?