RACINGLINE PERFORMANCE INTERNATIONAL DEALER CONFERENCE 2019
28th May 2019
Last weekend, some of the Ecotune team headed to RacingLine
Performance’s annual International Dealer Conference at the iconic Silverstone Circuit.
Over 100 dealers and importers gathered from all over the world to learn what
was new from this prestigious firm for the 12 months ahead.Speed Machine Festival was the main event of the weekend,
housing rounds of the adrenaline-fuelled FIA World Rallycross Championship, and
with RacingLine also offering up hundreds of track experience rides in t
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WHAT’S INVOLVED? | MQB HALDEX SERVICING
23rd May 2019
A ‘Haldex’ system is present on the majority of small- to
mid-sized 4WD VAG-group vehicles; utilising an oil pressure-activated clutch coupling
system on the rear differential to allow the car to instantly switch from FWD
to 4WD as the ECU determines conditions require.As a result, the owner can benefit from the economy of a
front-wheel drive vehicle during everyday driving conditions, and the
performance and handling benefits that come from a 4WD car when the going gets
tough.Because the
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ECOTUNE CUSTOMER CARS FEATURE IN VWG MAGAZINE ISSUE 11
3rd May 2019
As well as taking the
fabled cover slot with James Scott’s 511bhp Stage 3 Golf R (which you can read
more about by clicking HERE), two more satisfied Ecotune customers also grace
the pages of the latest issue of VWG magazine this month – the Mk7 Golf Rs of
Gordon Guthrie and Blair Pattie.First up: it’s Gordon’s
Limestone Grey Golf R. Recently claiming the accolade of ‘fastest MQB car
with DQ250 DSG gearbox in the UK’ at Crail Raceway, the car pushes out 540bhp
thanks to its bespoke E
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WHAT’S INVOLVED? | ECOTUNE’S BELT-LINKED DYNO
26th Apr 2019
WHAT’S INVOLVED? |
ECOTUNE’S BELT-LINKED DYNO‘What’s Involved?’ is
an all-new mini-series that aims to give you more of an insight into the
impressive work the talented team here at Ecotune perform on a daily basis.This week, we’re looking at what could arguably be described
as the heart of the entire company – the 4WD belt-linked dynamometer that helps
the team to get an insight into each car’s ECU before one of the firm’s
infamous bespoke calibrations is carefully applied for optimum res
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ECOTUNE ATTENDS GTISPRING FEST AT SANTA POD RACEWAY
19th Apr 2019
On Sunday, 14th April, staff and friends of Ecotune headed
to England’s Santa Pod quarter mile strip to test out their recently-tuned vehicles
at the infamous venue’s GTISpring Fest event.
It came just two weeks after a hugely successful outing to Scotland’s Crail Raceway, where the firm’s very own
Porsche 911 Turbo S clinched the ‘fastest ever German car’ title with a time of
9.940 seconds @ 141.4mph.
Keen to keep up this momentum and check
out Santa Pod’s new 2019 surfac
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