The great big MK6 Golf 118TSI tuning thread

[rygreen93]

Yeah exactly. Its a weapon. The grunt it has is ridiculous from a 1.4. I drive to Brisbane from the Gold Coast most days for work and in my Forester I was spending about $130 a week on fuel filling up twice. After getting the Golf I had a faster car that saved me $350 a month in fuel!!!

Do you have the leather seats? I really wish I had leather seats, and I want a flat-bottom steering wheel. I have conti maxcontact tyres on my new rims. They are awesome!!! I kinda skipped out on the basics when my car broke, I don't even have lowered springs yet!!!

[blower]

Yeah exactly. Its a weapon. The grunt it has is ridiculous from a 1.4. I drive to Brisbane from the Gold Coast most days for work and in my Forester I was spending about $130 a week on fuel filling up twice. After getting the Golf I had a faster car that saved me $350 a month in fuel!!!

Do you have the leather seats? I really wish I had leather seats, and I want a flat-bottom steering wheel. I have conti maxcontact tyres on my new rims. They are awesome!!! I kinda skipped out on the basics when my car broke, I don't even have lowered springs yet!!!

I'm after the flat bottom steering wheel too - one from a Golf R would look great, they are just so expensive!. No lowering on mine, but i don't like to mess too much with the suspension for fear of spoiling the ride quality. I also have DCC, so lowering is limited - although the rear could do with lower springs, perhaps just GTI springs, as the gap there is large due to the car being spec'ed with 18" wheels and me now putting on 17".

Even though i love leather interior - to me it only looks good for a few years, after that leather always seems to turn into a bag of wrinkles so unless i intend to buy a car from new and get rid of it within 5 years i tend to avoid it.

Next thing for me is to sort out the tune on this car, I am also considering doing something about the cat/exhaust for a stage 2 tune....but i have not been impressed with the aftermarket options for the downpipe. As you have pointed out they are considerably narrower on the CAT - i'm dubious if there is that much less restriction vs stock - im unsure just what the CEL rating is on the stock CAT, but with the stock having what looks to be double the cross sectional surface area than the narrow aftermarket sport cat's then unless the stock is 800 cell vs 200 cell of aftermarket - the flow gains will be minimal.

I want to fit a real EGT sensor to the exhaust manifold of the turbo, so i can get a real reading on what the EGT's are, instead of the calculated guesswork reading you get from the ECU. That's the only way to tell if you are getting any real world gains from 'better' exhaust/CAT setups.

[Mk R]

Yeah exactly. Its a weapon. The grunt it has is ridiculous from a 1.4. I drive to Brisbane from the Gold Coast most days for work and in my Forester I was spending about $130 a week on fuel filling up twice. After getting the Golf I had a faster car that saved me $350 a month in fuel!!!

Do you have the leather seats? I really wish I had leather seats, and I want a flat-bottom steering wheel. I have conti maxcontact tyres on my new rims. They are awesome!!! I kinda skipped out on the basics when my car broke, I don't even have lowered springs yet!!!

Mate, i used to have the fabric seats when i bought the car but the previous owners son had been sitting in the seats in a wet wetsuit so it stank to high hell. I found some grey leather seats from a Mk V 2008 golf which are a direct fit. Got them for $400 bucks from a wrecker and sold the airbags from my old seats for $250 so it worked out pretty cheap. Got a seat wiring loom for $90 and got it all installed no problem. Even when the flat and bolstering wears out you can get them sanded and re dyed pretty cheap. Even a full re upholstering of the front seats leather isn't that expensive.

Keep your eye out man, you never know what's going to pop up in the classifieds!

Blower, I know your pain re the steering wheel. I've found a few for about AUD 750 cheapest with an airbag. The crazy thing is the Mk 7 ones are actually cheaper than the Mk VI, although they do look better. There's a few out there cheap without airbags but then there's pain of getting an airbag and cover.

I've got the VWR sport springs on mine and the spring rate is very comfortable, even with the Whiteline sway bars on medium setting it's a very nice ride. The car stays nice and flat through the bends.

[Lucas_R]

There someone selling a set of the leather seats out of a Golf R here: MK6 R Front Leather seats

https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Evwgolf%2Enet%2Eau%2Fshowthread%2Ephp%3Ft%3D29120&share_tid=29120&share_fid=91657&share_type=t

[Rawcpoppa]

To those looking for flat bottomed steering wheels have you checked vwvortex forums in the car parts section? Jetta mk6 parts/classifieds has a few for sale.

[Mk R]

To those looking for flat bottomed steering wheels have you checked vwvortex forums in the car parts section? Jetta mk6 parts/classifieds has a few for sale.

OOooo Nice! Thanks for that, i'll be keeping an eye on those...

[rygreen93]

So starting from tomorrow I should have some photos etc. of my new pistons and the rebuild process of my engine. Yes it has been about 7 weeks since it happened and I miss my car like crazy.

Just wanted to know if you guys are happy for me to post here or if you would prefer me to start a new thread. It is technically tuning (forged piston conversion - not by choice)

[Mk R]

So starting from tomorrow I should have some photos etc. of my new pistons and the rebuild process of my engine. Yes it has been about 7 weeks since it happened and I miss my car like crazy.

Just wanted to know if you guys are happy for me to post here or if you would prefer me to start a new thread. It is technically tuning (forged piston conversion - not by choice)

That deserves its own thread for sure. If you post it here it will eventually get lost on page 42 of 200 and something. Maybe make a new thread and put the link in here...?

[Ryan_R]

+1 This thread is good for Q&A but I'm sure many of us will keenly follow your progress in a build thread.

[rygreen93]

Hi Guys,

Follow my new rebuild thread here: http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/...ld-114385.html

[Mk R]

Just came across this thread about a Seat Ibiza 1.4 Twincharger Stage 3 project.

SEAT Ibiza FR 1.4 TSI Stage 3 K04 383HP - 480NM - SEAT Cupra.net - SEAT Forum

This guy went straight past the K03 hybrid, K04 and went and bolted on a K04 hybrid...

[The_Hawk]

and he was on stock internals until recently...

[rygreen93]

Just came across this thread about a Seat Ibiza 1.4 Twincharger Stage 3 thread.

SEAT Ibiza FR 1.4 TSI Stage 3 K04 383HP - 480NM - SEAT Cupra.net - SEAT Forum

This guy went straight past the K03 hybrid, K04 and went and bolted on a K04 hybrid...

That is epic!!!

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[Ryan_R]

Nice one. Although part of me wonders why he didn't just supercharge a faster car.

[Mk R]

Nice one. Although part of me wonders why he didn't just supercharge a faster car.

The idea of making a giant killer out of a humble 1.4 engine is pretty delicious if you have money to burn. I'd love to see him get that thing to 403hp and crack 300kW.