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COVID-19 - How will the Corona Virus affect my Darkside Orders?(Post)
Update 02/11/2020 On the 31st October, it was announced that the UK will go back into lockdown from Thursday 5th November until Wednesday 2nd December. As an essential service, we will be remaining ...
Tyre Testing - New Yokohama Advan AD09(Post)In the peak of last summer, we were asked by the guys at Yokohama UK to help them test the all new ADVAN Neova® AD09, their latest road legal track tyre. At the time, the tested set were the onl ...
DONINGTON PARK TRACK DAY - LAST MINUTE PROBLEMS!!! - AUDI A5 3.0 TDI QUATTRO PROJECT(Post)Back on the track... After regaining the full potential of the A5 (Part 18 Blog) we wanted to get it back on the track and see how much and where we had improved. Apart from Spa and the Nurburging, ...
0-60MPH TESTING WITH THE POWER WE COULD HAVE HAD! - AUDI A5 3.0 TDI QUATTRO PROJECT(Post)Back to work... After our recent road trip to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and the Nürburgring, we knew we still had a few creases that needed ironing out, mainly to fix the inconsistent power ...
OIL COOLERS & RADIATOR - AUDI A5 3.0 TDI QUATTRO PROJECT(Post)Cooling is essential, especially on track! In Part 15 of this series we fit our in house developed engine and gearbox oil coolers as well as a custom larger radiator in preparation for the Nurburgri ...
John O’Groats to Land’s End on One Tank! 400bhp 335d(Post)This is the story of one customer’s idea to travel the entire length of the UK on just one tank of fuel!If you’re thinking this was attempted by some super-efficient 1.2 TDI Audi A2 with ...
Rockingham ISSC - 30th September 2018 - MSV Trackday Trophy Race(Post)Round 6 of the MSV Trackday Trophy on Sunday 30th September 2018 in our Ibiza took us to Rockingham in Corby, Northamptonshire We were testing on the Friday, which I wrote about here.After scrat ...
Brands Hatch Indy - MSV SuperCup - 12th September(Post)The next round of the SuperCup, took us all the way down South to Brands Hatch, on the short Indy Circuit. With a busy schedule outside of racing, we were not able to do any testing before the race, ...
Donington National - BRSCC ClubSport Trophy - 10th September 2023(Post)A week after the last ClubSport Trophy I was back at Brands in the Golf for the 750MC RoadSports Series race, I then had a week at Idiada in Spain to test some tyres (more on that soon!), then was b ...
Diesels. The Basics(Post)Here at Darkside we specialise in diesel vehicles. From a customer point of view, Diesel engines are torquey, strong and respond well to tuning, while maintaining fuel economy that tuned petrol cars ...
Oulton Park - ClubEnduro - 750MC - 21st September 2024(Post)After a great result at Silverstone, we had a 5 week break before we out again, this time for a 100 minute Club Enduro Championship race on Saturday at Oulton Park. I would be driving the #1 TT on my ...
Snetterton 200 - MSV Trackday Championship / SuperCup / EnduroKA - 4th-5th July 2020(Post)After the long wait for the start of the season due to the COVID-19 situation, the first round of the MSV Trackday Championship was at Snetterton, on the shorter 200 Circuit. On the same day we were ...