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Update : I went and fitted 4x new 265/35/18’s on the style 224 9j rims and had them fitted to the car. Still have to go and buy paint to have all the rims redone. I think I’ll try a new colour next time.
Then the spacers arrived from the US.
I was happy with the quality and they are very lightweight.
I Couldn’t wait to have them fitted so I got the rear in the air and installed them
Once that was done , I lowered the car and double checked I was happy with the fitment
Sitting nice fat
looking badass 
Went for a test drive and came back, all good , no rubbing against the front arches. Put the car back up and removed the rims.
I then took the 4 rims and tires and washed them with APC and a scrubbing brush to remove any chemicals/oils or release agent used when manufacturing the tires . Once they had dried, I brought them inside to apply the rubber treatment on all the tires.
Before rubber treatment
Applied Mothers tire care rubber treatment
Tire absorbing the rubber treatment
After two generous coats of rubber treatment
Rims were then fitted on the car, I wanted the two silver rims in front and the gunmetal rims at the back.
That’s it for now , Will update again once rims have been painted.
Then the spacers arrived from the US.
I was happy with the quality and they are very lightweight.
I Couldn’t wait to have them fitted so I got the rear in the air and installed them
Once that was done , I lowered the car and double checked I was happy with the fitment
Sitting nice fat
looking badass 
Went for a test drive and came back, all good , no rubbing against the front arches. Put the car back up and removed the rims.
I then took the 4 rims and tires and washed them with APC and a scrubbing brush to remove any chemicals/oils or release agent used when manufacturing the tires . Once they had dried, I brought them inside to apply the rubber treatment on all the tires.
Before rubber treatment
Applied Mothers tire care rubber treatment
Tire absorbing the rubber treatment
After two generous coats of rubber treatment
Rims were then fitted on the car, I wanted the two silver rims in front and the gunmetal rims at the back.
That’s it for now , Will update again once rims have been painted.
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Thanks Mr, I'm thinking Gloss black with some bronze metallic in there.. will see when i go to the auto paint shop what they can mix up for me...PLV said:
Recent updates:
Managed to get together with some friends for a small breakfast run. Had these machines on some nice roads, was a lot of fun.
Some pics :
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Then I decided to attend to all the marks and scratches I picked up since the car was last detailed. Got the car jacked up, wheels off and these were some of the issues.
After polish, glaze, sealant and wax .
Looking nice and fresh again...
Once the car was clean, I put it back up to remove and clean the brakes , this is when I realized I running low on front pads.
I could have ran them for the hillclimb but they would need replacing before the track day so I decided to just get them replaced now with a few days to bed them in nicely before the event . Some pics :
After the brakes where done (thanks Peter) , I decided I’d paint the rims since I got tired of the silver fronts and gunmetal rears .
So I went to the paint store and asked them to mix me up some new gun metal paint.
Some pics of the work involved
Had the tyre letters done in red
And that’s it , I think I’m ready for the hill climb this weekend
Managed to get together with some friends for a small breakfast run. Had these machines on some nice roads, was a lot of fun.
Some pics :
———-
Then I decided to attend to all the marks and scratches I picked up since the car was last detailed. Got the car jacked up, wheels off and these were some of the issues.
After polish, glaze, sealant and wax .
Looking nice and fresh again...
Once the car was clean, I put it back up to remove and clean the brakes , this is when I realized I running low on front pads.
I could have ran them for the hillclimb but they would need replacing before the track day so I decided to just get them replaced now with a few days to bed them in nicely before the event . Some pics :
After the brakes where done (thanks Peter) , I decided I’d paint the rims since I got tired of the silver fronts and gunmetal rears .
So I went to the paint store and asked them to mix me up some new gun metal paint.
Some pics of the work involved
Had the tyre letters done in red
And that’s it , I think I’m ready for the hill climb this weekend
momo1 said:
Thanks Bro, I really wanted to be there but I had family over from KZN over that weekend, maybe next one
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Thanks H :thumbs:GoCart said:
Hill Climb Update:
For the last 9 or 10 years I’ve known about the Legendary Krugersdorp HillClimb, A Historic event dating back to the early 1900’s (like around 1920 or something) and all these years 100’s of cars and 1000’s of people have gathered on that very same hill to either compete or line up in the bushes to spectate.
With such competition, records were set and the current record still remains unbeaten. This was set at the 22nd Krugersdorp Hill Climb on the 23rd September 1967 by Bobby Olthoff who raced a 5000cc McLaren-Ford on this narrow, twisting,winding and tricky 0.67 mile (1.07Km) course at a time of 42.93 seconds. Amazing to see that till today, it remains unbeaten.
Here are some pics of Bobby Olthoff and his McLaren-Ford:
Other Historical Pics of this event
Some car clubs use to host an event there but I found out about it through The VW Club of SA who use to setup and host the Krugersdorp Hillclimb as an annual event, sadly when I owned cars worth taking there I never got the opportunity as work or something other would come up and after 2014 the event was no more due to it becoming so difficult to get approvals for road closures ect… This was a huge disappointment as I had always wanted to see what it was about and experience this challenging road which had claimed many cars and some lives over the years. Fortunate for us, somewhere in 2017 the VWCSA Team had started planning to revive the Hillclimb bringing it back in 2018. Their incredible efforts saw 70 Drivers registered, it was promising to be a spectacular day out… As soon as I heard about this, I called my brother and told him that we HAVE to enter or else it may never happen, He also agreed to enter and we set about preparing our cars for it. We attended to things like brakes, suspension, tyres to ensure our cars would be safe and ready on the day. The plan was to go through and get a feel for the car, the road and how they all work together… We were not going to abuse the cars with super hard launches, flat foot changes.ect but rather try to be smooth, neat and have fun and get a time that we be respectable for our first hillclimb.
9th Sept 2018 - The day of the Hill Climb – Track Length = Around 1.1km long
We arrived at the top of the hill around 7:50am, it was freezing cold, the wind was howling and people had already started flocking to the vendors to get their morning Coffee’s… We were greeted by the many drivers who had already arrived and started unloading cars, tools, kits.ect. and was humbled to see all types of machines getting ready to take on the hill.. GT40, GTR, GT3, GT3RS, GT2R, C63, Lotus, KTM XboxR, and many other cars… you could already see that this was a serious event and these guys were all here to push the limits… After a quick walk through the pits, we submitted our indemnity forms and went for drivers briefing.. Nate and I were in the 6th group so we had time to watch 50 cars or so run up the hill before we had to line up so we went through and found our spot on the side of the hill, sitting in the bush on some rocks and watching as the cars came raging up the hill. The first car we saw was the Porsche GT3RS and what a performance show he put on, screaming through up the hill, slashing through those corners, it was an amazing display of man and machine working together… Everyone around us loved it as much as we did… car after car, you could see the drivers trying to learn the road, their cars, the right lines for braking and cornering, you could see they were working hard!!!
The spectators attended by the thousands to support, groups of people could be seen all over the hill side…
But these guys had the right idea, They must have attended before as they came prepared… relaxing, Drinking wine and braai’ng… They looked like they really enjoyed the day.
After some time, they called our Group down, Nate and I had signed up together so we in the same group… Our numbers being 62 and 63 respectively… We fetched our cars and made our way down the hill, swerving and braking in certain areas to try to put some heat into the tyres as it was still very cold around 8 Degree’s at that point. Once we got to the bottom, we made a u-turn and formed a line, the marshal starting the cars off 1 at a time, waiting for the car racing to complete its run and the track to be clear before sending out the next car.. Eventually I get to the line, halmet on, gloves on, camera on, I put the Sport Button on, and engage M-Track mode for my first run as I have never raced on this road before… The flag drops and I do a small launch and get on my way, slight right, then medium left into a hard right hairpin, straight onto a slight right and into a hard left hairpin, straight onto a slight left into a hard right hairpin before the final straight onto the finish line. while arriving at the finish I remember thinking… "WTF just happened, it was so intense"… My first run saw a time of : 52.50 , A time I was happy with for my first ever run up the hill. Thereafter I knew I had to try different things if I was to improve on that, I had to run with full traction off since even with m-track mode on, the system was still slowing down the car too much on the hairpin corners, I needed to take better lines and brake later or harder… all these things to learn and less than a handful of runs to do it with… Every run I tried something different, take a new line, brake later, stretch a gear, go wide here, cut close there… On my 4th run I had set a time of 51.53 but by then it was time to go home and I wouldn’t see anymore runs to better that… The car is capable of a sub 50sec run and I hope to achieve this at the next Hillclimb now that I know the road.
Here are some pics of our cars and other race cars taken by the awesome Photographers who attended (Chris and Dylan)
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1No-Cc3u6yiGOzz7JzoBb8Ac0lTv6Pk2X[/img]
All in all, it was an amazing experience which I will never forget and I hope to attend more of these in the future... Thanks to the VWCSA Committee and to all those who contributed for all your efforts, it was a huge success...
Here are 2 of my runs...
Run 2
Run 4
Next month's update: Red star Track day :driving:
For the last 9 or 10 years I’ve known about the Legendary Krugersdorp HillClimb, A Historic event dating back to the early 1900’s (like around 1920 or something) and all these years 100’s of cars and 1000’s of people have gathered on that very same hill to either compete or line up in the bushes to spectate.
With such competition, records were set and the current record still remains unbeaten. This was set at the 22nd Krugersdorp Hill Climb on the 23rd September 1967 by Bobby Olthoff who raced a 5000cc McLaren-Ford on this narrow, twisting,winding and tricky 0.67 mile (1.07Km) course at a time of 42.93 seconds. Amazing to see that till today, it remains unbeaten.
Here are some pics of Bobby Olthoff and his McLaren-Ford:
Other Historical Pics of this event
Some car clubs use to host an event there but I found out about it through The VW Club of SA who use to setup and host the Krugersdorp Hillclimb as an annual event, sadly when I owned cars worth taking there I never got the opportunity as work or something other would come up and after 2014 the event was no more due to it becoming so difficult to get approvals for road closures ect… This was a huge disappointment as I had always wanted to see what it was about and experience this challenging road which had claimed many cars and some lives over the years. Fortunate for us, somewhere in 2017 the VWCSA Team had started planning to revive the Hillclimb bringing it back in 2018. Their incredible efforts saw 70 Drivers registered, it was promising to be a spectacular day out… As soon as I heard about this, I called my brother and told him that we HAVE to enter or else it may never happen, He also agreed to enter and we set about preparing our cars for it. We attended to things like brakes, suspension, tyres to ensure our cars would be safe and ready on the day. The plan was to go through and get a feel for the car, the road and how they all work together… We were not going to abuse the cars with super hard launches, flat foot changes.ect but rather try to be smooth, neat and have fun and get a time that we be respectable for our first hillclimb.
9th Sept 2018 - The day of the Hill Climb – Track Length = Around 1.1km long
We arrived at the top of the hill around 7:50am, it was freezing cold, the wind was howling and people had already started flocking to the vendors to get their morning Coffee’s… We were greeted by the many drivers who had already arrived and started unloading cars, tools, kits.ect. and was humbled to see all types of machines getting ready to take on the hill.. GT40, GTR, GT3, GT3RS, GT2R, C63, Lotus, KTM XboxR, and many other cars… you could already see that this was a serious event and these guys were all here to push the limits… After a quick walk through the pits, we submitted our indemnity forms and went for drivers briefing.. Nate and I were in the 6th group so we had time to watch 50 cars or so run up the hill before we had to line up so we went through and found our spot on the side of the hill, sitting in the bush on some rocks and watching as the cars came raging up the hill. The first car we saw was the Porsche GT3RS and what a performance show he put on, screaming through up the hill, slashing through those corners, it was an amazing display of man and machine working together… Everyone around us loved it as much as we did… car after car, you could see the drivers trying to learn the road, their cars, the right lines for braking and cornering, you could see they were working hard!!!
The spectators attended by the thousands to support, groups of people could be seen all over the hill side…
But these guys had the right idea, They must have attended before as they came prepared… relaxing, Drinking wine and braai’ng… They looked like they really enjoyed the day.
After some time, they called our Group down, Nate and I had signed up together so we in the same group… Our numbers being 62 and 63 respectively… We fetched our cars and made our way down the hill, swerving and braking in certain areas to try to put some heat into the tyres as it was still very cold around 8 Degree’s at that point. Once we got to the bottom, we made a u-turn and formed a line, the marshal starting the cars off 1 at a time, waiting for the car racing to complete its run and the track to be clear before sending out the next car.. Eventually I get to the line, halmet on, gloves on, camera on, I put the Sport Button on, and engage M-Track mode for my first run as I have never raced on this road before… The flag drops and I do a small launch and get on my way, slight right, then medium left into a hard right hairpin, straight onto a slight right and into a hard left hairpin, straight onto a slight left into a hard right hairpin before the final straight onto the finish line. while arriving at the finish I remember thinking… "WTF just happened, it was so intense"… My first run saw a time of : 52.50 , A time I was happy with for my first ever run up the hill. Thereafter I knew I had to try different things if I was to improve on that, I had to run with full traction off since even with m-track mode on, the system was still slowing down the car too much on the hairpin corners, I needed to take better lines and brake later or harder… all these things to learn and less than a handful of runs to do it with… Every run I tried something different, take a new line, brake later, stretch a gear, go wide here, cut close there… On my 4th run I had set a time of 51.53 but by then it was time to go home and I wouldn’t see anymore runs to better that… The car is capable of a sub 50sec run and I hope to achieve this at the next Hillclimb now that I know the road.
Here are some pics of our cars and other race cars taken by the awesome Photographers who attended (Chris and Dylan)
https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1No-Cc3u6yiGOzz7JzoBb8Ac0lTv6Pk2X[/img]
All in all, it was an amazing experience which I will never forget and I hope to attend more of these in the future... Thanks to the VWCSA Committee and to all those who contributed for all your efforts, it was a huge success...
Here are 2 of my runs...
Run 2
Run 4
Next month's update: Red star Track day :driving:
