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Anglesey - Roadsports and ClubEnduro - 750MC - 12th - 13th May 2023(Post)
With Ryan back in the UK, we were off to Anglesey for Round 2 of both the RoadSports Series on Saturday, then the 750MC Club Enduro on Sunday. DannyDC2 was not with us this weekend, and neither was B ...
Epic Road Trip - Spa and Nürburgring - 19th - 25th April 2019(Post)This blog Post is an overall summary of the trip we made. We go into more detail about how each car performed, and share videos of them in action on the links below. CitiGo at the Ring Spa ...
Smoke(Post)It’s hard to talk about diesel engines and diesel tuning without talking about smoke. Whether you are prepared to tolerate a little smoke for maximum performance or you like to stay under the radar w ...
PD Engine Hardware Tweaks(Post)In 1999, Volkswagen introduced what would become one of the most well known engine designs of modern times - the Pumpe Duse (PD) diesel engine. In a departure from many of its rivals, the PD used ...
CJAA / CBEA Tuning Guide(Post)The CJAA & CBEA engines are both a 140ps 2.0 TDI found in the US & Canadian market. We get a lot of enquires for modifiying these so we thought we would put together a definiative tuning guid ...
2.0 BiTDi Engines. What to know!(Post)The idea of a 2.0 BiTDI Transporter or Amarok sounds great, and with quoted figures from the factory round the 180bhp mark, it sounds like the perfect platform to start with, right...? Whe ...
Brands Hatch GP - MSVT SuperCup - 8th May 2021(Post)With only 2 weeks since our successful last MSVT SuperCup race, which you have read about here, we were on the way down the A1 to the sunny Garden of England, to Brands Hatch in Kent. Below is the ...
Snetterton 200 - MSV Trackday Championship / SuperCup / EnduroKA - 4th-5th July 2020(Post)After the long wait for the start of the season due to the COVID-19 situation, the first round of the MSV Trackday Championship was at Snetterton, on the shorter 200 Circuit. On the same day we were ...
Brands Hatch GP - 18th August 2018 - Round 5 - MSV Trackday Championship(Post)After Round 3 and the MSV Extra Race at Silverstone back in June, we missed Round 4 at Oulton Park due to a clash of calendars (with the Goodwood Festival of Speed - a must for any petrol or di ...
Tuning the BMW M57 Engine(Post)The M57 is a water-cooled and turbocharged inline six cylinder diesel engine with common-rail injection. It is based on its predecessor, the M51, which was a six-cylinder diesel engine with a Bosch V ...
Diesels. The Basics(Post)Here at Darkside we specialise in diesel vehicles. From a customer point of view, Diesel engines are torquey, strong and respond well to tuning, while maintaining fuel economy that tuned petrol cars ...
750MC Birkett Relay - Silverstone GP - 29th October 2022(Post)With a hectic season of racing almost to a close, we were back at Silverstone for the 750 Motor Club Birkett 6 Hour Relay Race. The event takes place every year at the end of October on the GP Circu ...
