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Things don't always go to plan, and when you are fitting a great big Turbo to a 3.0 Engine for the first time, its not a big shock when they go wrong. In part 23 of our A5 Build, Ryan talks through the issues we faced during the tuning process. Full A5 spec list and links to the products we fit throughout the build - http://drksi.de/AudiA5 You can also enter the competition to win the A5 by following this link - http://drksi.de/WIN Check out Part 23 of our Vlog below: …

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 …

Back on the track... After regaining the full potential of the A5 (Part 18 Blog) we wanted to get it back on the track and see how much and where we had improved. Apart from Spa and the Nurburging, the only other track we had driven in the A5 was Donington Park, so we booked on an evening session with Circuit Days and prepped the car. It wasn't until the day before when we realised we had quite a big problem with the gearbox! Not entirely sure of the cause we applied a temporary fix and sent …

After a great opening round of the MSV Trackday Championship, which we discussed in our blog, and the terrible accident in the TDT on the same day, also discussed in this blog, we had a LOT of work to do to get the car ready for the next race. Round 2 brought us to Snetterton, a circuit we had not been to since a very wet March 2018 when we launched the CitiGo. We had hoped to get the car ready for a trackday mid-week to do some testing, but things don't always go to plan, so the first outin …