Pikes Peak MKV Jetta Build

Thought I would throw up a thread here about the car we are building for the 92nd Pikes Peak Hill-climb amongst other things.

Car has gone through a few iterations including a stupid flirtation with an air setup back in the day and most recently it has been sitting in my warehouse gathering dust on jackstands until Shift came and asked me to use the car for this project. Naturally I couldn’t say no!

Motor as is sits with a built bottom end, GT3071R, RS4 injectors and rail valve, APR HP pump, 3 inch MAF and an LSD in the DSG tranny. Porsche brakes, H&R ultra lows and DPE wheels.

So far we have fully stripped the interior, side glass, door guts etc and have taken the car from ~3200 lbs down to just over 2600 lbs. We will be adding weight by of course putting in a full cage and AWD from a 2010 A3 ensuring that we got the Gen4 haldex setup. We will also be retaining a DSG setup and will be putting in diffs and internals.

Full motor build including head, rods, pistons etc will be done. We will be potentially building a second motor as well of the 5 cylinder (non-DI) variety but that is yet to be determined as we have a few irons in the fire for both motor types.

We are hoping to pull at least 600awhp from the 2.0TFSI and potentially more!

A few pictures and videos!

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This is how the car currently sits awaiting the team to return from their weekend at Thunderhill at a chump car event. (they run a mk2 jetta coupe)

Videos…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UPPbnHA6X6E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yCuDW75mq0E

and a short documentary about the teams pursuits to Pikes Peak last year in their Scion FR-S which they also competed in Canada’s Scion Tuner Challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eEmeqUjzxJA

So far we have a bunch of great sponsors that have committed to work with us this year and naturally we are always looking for new partnerships!

I will post up pics as the build progresses and we are shooting to have the car ready for the middle of May for our test event at the Knox Mountain Hill-Climb in Kelowna, BC.