GTI TCR TEARDOWN - Episode 1 - Motorsport Monday

► What’s the oil change interval on a sequential SADEV gearbox? How do you figure out what tire pressures to run during a qualifying lap? And what exactly are the settings for camber and caster to optimize your vehicle’s contact patch during a hot lap?
All of that and more will be in FCP Euro’s latest series, Motorsport Monday.
By now, you know about FCP Euro’s motorsports documentary series, The Paddock. It provided a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of our motorsports program, from securing sponsorships, traveling to races, and even some of the hardships we faced throughout each weekend at the track. But this year, we’re going to do things a little differently.
Our program this year is coming in-house. What’s that mean? Rather than using a logistics partner for the transport, prep, and race support, we’re going to do it all ourselves. That includes working on the cars in the off-season, transporting them to the race, working on them at the track during a race, and optimizing them for winning the event itself and, more importantly, running it all out of the same facility that you pick up your parts. It’s a massive undertaking.
If we had to summarize Motorsport Monday in one sentence, it’d be: translating how working on two professional championship-winning racecars can help you work on your European car. Our Volkswagen GTI TCRs are just cars, after all, and there’s plenty of things we have under our belts that could help you in your endeavors, whether it’s in your driveway doing routine maintenance or at a track going after your own fastest lap.
Our first episode is just an introduction to the series, introducing the recurring “characters” (Nate Vincent, our Director of Motorsport and driver of the #72 GTI TCR) and the format of the series itself. We also pull apart the cars for the first time since the last race of the 2019 season to verify if they’re still fit to race. Everything from checking turbos, to wheel bends, to engine compression will be explained in the series, as we genuinely want you, our viewer, to come away empowered and ready to work on your vehicle in the same way that we’re doing on ours.
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[@nickl451]

Subbed! Glad I found this channel, that one guy is good at explaining the splitter concept.

[@fcpeuro]

Thanks for subscribing, Nick!

[@joshuam7552]

dope.

[@TallPaul808]

Where can I get that intake? 😍

[@grasshopp3r-567]

What kind of rims are you running

[@fcpeuro]

Motek TCR R18s

[@brandonh6838]

What brakes are those?

[@fcpeuro]

Hi, Brandon. Our TCR's have six-piston aluminum AP Racing Monoblock Calipers with custom Zimmermann 378mm two-piece ventilated rotors on the front, with two-piston, 272mm solid discs in the rear.

[@I6N54]

too many hands on the car

[@fcpeuro]

At this stage of the process (teardown), we try to involve as many employees as we can to give everyone a chance to help us with the car.