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We’re looking for one of our fans to design a slick race livery our new Golf MK5.5 ex VW Cup Car that will be replacing our Seat Ibiza in next years MSV Trackday Trophy and Championship season! The chosen winner will receive a Darkside Developments Merchandise Pack as well as the opportunity of joining us on one of many track days for Passenger Rides in the car. The winning designer may also have their own company logo or 'Designed by YOUR NAME' on the vehicle design. …

Round 2 of the MSV Trackday Championship, took us to Snetterton, a weekend we would rather forget. You can read about it here. With all the issues sorted, we decided to take the car for a shakedown at Oulton Park on the 2nd July, in preparation for the race there on the 27th July. I managed a 1:59.76 lap, which would have put us close to the front, based on the 2018 lap times. There was supposed to be a test day on the Friday before the race, but this was switched to a regular open pit lane …

When Davy @ DRIVEN Automotive Media organised the Performance German Day, he asked if we were interested, who says no to a well organised trackday on a sunny weekend? We decided to take almost all the crew down, as well as as many cars we could physically get there and have a good time! We have made a little montage of the days exploits. With only 12 cars at a time allowed on track, there were few battles to be had, but we still had a great time pushing the cars to (and beyond) the limit. …

In this Vlog we decide 425+hp is just not enough and attempt to bolt on a turbo from Truck three times larger than the 3 Litre engine our daily driving A5 project has from the factory. We have come a long way from the standard 240bhp and the current stock frame turbo is now our limit so we have to look to the truck industry for something bigger. After a bit of research, a GTC3579VK was sourced and our in-house fabrication guru Dan set to work making it fit. Hopefully we will soon have some dyn …

Last year with the Arosa was a disappointing one, mainly because we only managed to do just over 30 runs at Santa Pod over the full year, as we didn't get chance to do anything with it until BugJam in July. We also had the problem (as does everyone else) that with Santa Pod being the only purpose built drag strip currently in operation, whenever there is an event, the queues are so big that you can only grab a handful of runs each day. With the expense of preparing the car and getting to the str …

What do all drag cars need? Nitrous! We have the WON Kits fitted to a number of big power projects, both ones that are used on the drag strip Our Arosa - 633bhp & 680Ft/Lbs Jerome's Ibiza - ~450bhp & ~550Ft/Lbs And ones that are used on the road Bora ASZ - 449bhp & 580Ft/Lbs Roberto's Fabia - 364.6bhp & 475ft/lbs We can supply the full range of Wizard of NOS Products, but currently just list 3 of the most popular Diesel Specific kits WON …

So we have been posting about our Ibiza's racing and trackday exploits for a number of years now, but we have never really explained the reasons behind the choices we have made, until now! The full Spec can be viewed here - https://www.darksidedevelopments.co.uk/ibiza-fr-mk4-6l-1-9-8v-asz-track-race-car/ We have already made a blog post on PD Engine Hardware Engines, and we have a Wheel Alignment / Tracking page with all the various Geometry settings we measure and tweak on the Track C …

A BIG transformation... We are now onto part 20 of our A5 Vlog and this time its having a major makeover! A full B8.5 facelift to modernise the car and a vinyl wrap in 3M Smouldering Red which was chosen by you guys on a Facebook poll. ‹ › . $( document ).ready(function() { var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() { if (this.readyState === 4 && this.status === 200) { var galleryImages = JSON.parse(xhttp.responseText); blueimp.Gallery(galleryImages, { contai …

It has been a long time coming, we finally managed to get all the photos organised for the build of the SRS Automotive Caddy, which is a 2.0 16v CR with a DQ500 DSG Gearbox and 4-Motion. When we first built the Caddy back in 2011, it was a 2.0 BKD with a GTB1756VK, pushing 220bhp (165kW) & 350Ft/lbs (475Nm), which is the spec we took it down the strip at Santa Pod in April 2012, where it did a 15.7s @ 89.25mph. Not bad to say it was being used to bring all the spares down! Stef at …