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The Racingline R600 intake does not come with a turbo elbow nor the silicone pipe that connects it to the intake. Most aftermarket brands do sell these, but at the cost of $300 for just the elbow and another $200 for the silicone hose. Despite those high prices, they look almost exactly the same as these generic branded ones I can find on AliExpress for 1/5th of the price. Those brands would try to convince you these are poor quality, but is that really the case? Honestly, I

Things absolutely did not go according to plan

Replacing the stock plastic sump with a metal one.

Let's be honest, who doesn't like a good woosh from their turbo? What if I told you it was attainable for only $27.5 AUD? No need to buy a whole new blow off valve or do anything else? Well, for the price of an uber eats meal, you can make your Golf R sound cooler than it already does! The installation was pretty easy. I believe it should be installable without removing the entire intake down to the turbo elbow, however, I did not want to risk dropping a bolt into the engine

The Context When I spotted a Golf R on the market with under 100,000 kms for 20k AUD, I knew I had to check it out. To my surprise, unlike most Golf Rs floating around at this price and kilometre range, it hadn't been "tastefully modded" into oblivion, nor was it hiding any sort of heinous crash history. It was simply a Mk7 that had been honestly driven and copped the usual wear and tear you'd expect from an 88,000km car. The paint was a bit worse for wear and it was missing

Hooked up the flight controller to PC and ran XPlane 12 with HITL. This first flight ironed out multiple kinks with the way the aircraft...

Turns out the F405 Navi Delux that ships with the AtomRC Dolphin Pro is NOT the same as the non-delux versions that came with the...

16 MHZ crystal on an Arduino Leonardo Turns out, choosing a crystal is a lot harder than I thought. Given that the Leonardo prototype...

Turns out to charge the special batteries, you need specialised chargers. What's even weirder is, unlike our phone chargers, they do not...

So, according to youtuber Painless360, the GPS that comes with the dolphin pro is not great ( source ). It's the Beitian BE-220, which...

The following items have been ordered: AtomRC Dolphin Pro airframe Radiomaster TX16s MKII DJI Goggles 3 DJI O4 Air Unit Pro The following...