Durban has the largest Indian Community outside of India. It's a legacy of the British Imperial Empire, they were exported here to work in the sugar cane plantations. They even had Mahatma Gandhi here in South Africa, but he managed his way back to India to do great things for his nation. You probably know bits and pieces of this slice of history, even if you don't know all of it in detail.
Move ahead a few hundred years. I've always had Indian friends from an early age. Most of my friends are Indian and when we get together, I'm often the only white dude around. That doesn't bother me in the slightest bit. One thing I've learned though, these dudes love cars and have a few favourite cars they like to modify. They are specialists and VW / Audi are what they're good at it. They will modify anything from a Golf 1 to a Golf 7R to knock the socks of most Super Cars, so around here if your line up next to one of these things at a traffic light, make sure you have the latest 911 Turbo S underneath you with some software, or you gonna get your ass handed to you on a platter.
So I've always wanted to do one of these for the hell of it, but I know nothing about these cars. Recently one of my friends dumped one of these jobbies, a Golf 7.5R, in my lap with a generous budget to make it look nice and make it super quick for his son, I had to learn real quick. Currently it is still a work in progress with some suspension setup required. It's going to be a circuit / streetcar.
With current mods it absolutely murdered one of my other creations, a Porsche GT4 with headers and software. Performance of the 7R is kinda wow, but I need to figure out spring rates & coilovers.
So what you're witnessing here is an old tappet like me, 64 years old, doing a snot nose pocked rocket mods, with style. I slammed it, wrapped it, put splitters, side skirts and rear diffuser. Akkrapovic back box, down pipe with cat delete, kept the stock turbo for now but upgraded the charge pipes for future mods. Turbo Muffler delete & intake elbow, Modified intake with 100mm intake.
Front mounted Intercooler, Oil Cooler & Gearbox cooler. ECU tune & DSG software tune. And for the hell of it, a Methanol Injection Kit. Lol.
It's a hoot.
This is a fantastic little chassis. I will let you know how things go and post some more pics in due course.
