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While we were in Zandvoort for the MSV Trackday Championship we figured it would be cost effective to do 2 races in the weekend, since we were already here and set up, and we would not be getting the ferry until Monday evening. The race on Sunday was the MSV SuperCup which has very similar rules to the TDC, but free tyre choice and more aerodynamic mods are allowed. All we had to do in the Ibiza was take 10Kg of Ballast out (Forced induction requires only 20Kg in the SuperCup). You can read abou …

Round 5 of the MSV Trackday Championship was back at our favourite track, Donington. You can read about it here. This time, Round 6 was the international round, at the newly announced F1 2020 Circuit Zandvoort. Right on the beach in North Holland, the circuit hosted the F1 from the 1950s all the way up to 1985, so there are parts of the track that are nowhere near the safety level of the modern GP Circuits! The most straightforward route for us was to drive from Darkside HQ to Hull, which tak …

You may find yourself reading this because you are in the unfortunate position of having con-rod failure on a Mk5 Platform vehicle such as 1.9 Caddy BLS or the 1.9 BXE Engine. This issue is proving to be very common, we receive multiple phone calls and emails per day in relation to this. Other engines affected are the BJB Engine found in the Caddy and the BKC / BXF found in many Mk5 Platform vehicles. We refer to them all as the PD105 engine as for most of them, the power output from the fact …