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I hadnt ventured on here for a while and thought why not throw up a new thread for my GTI.
I have owned the car for nearly 2 years and was inspired to move to the VW world from the subie world after looking through a few threads on here and realising how fun you could make these cars. Its been a wonderful 2 years of ownership and this is a car I can see my self holding on for quite a few more years
Current Mods:
-3" X Force Stainless Steel Cat Back Exhaust with custom 314 SS Mid Pipe
-Forge Spacer
-Bilstein PSS Coilovers
-DTM 18X8" ET40 Wheels with 225/40R18 Pirreli P Zero Nero Tyres
-GIAC Tune.
-Second set of wheels 19X8 ET44 RS4 Wheels with 225/35R18 Falken FK452 Tyres
Future Plans:
-20% Window Tint
-Roll the guards to give me some more clearance in the back
-3" Dump Pipe
-Whiteline Adjustable Rear Sway Bar
-Possibly colour code the lowers
-Vortex Front Lip
How it looked when I brought it:
Then the 19s went on:
After trialing with some resonator deletes and after market resonators, I saw a new near X Force SS Cat Back exhaust on here and decided why not give it a try. Previous experiances with Xforce had been good and it turned out pretty well on my car.
After finding out how badly the mid pipe between the cat and rear axel had been munted by the local exhaust shop with previous experiances I had my local exhaust shop premier make up a 314 SS Mid Pipe for me:
With the cat back exhaust the car dynoed earlier on this year making 138KW at the wheels:
I then got sick of how the car sat and decided to do something about that and decided to fit some Bilstein PSS Coilovers:
End result being a much smarter looking golf which can attack corners much more confidently:
After this I decided to get the car tuned, going down the GIAC path has had a profound affect on how the car performs, it is stronger everwhere in the rev range and actually has a nice little kick which the car lacked in stock form. I havent had a chance to throw it on the Dyno yet, so I will have to wait and see what it pulls next month at the dyno day.
More recently I decided I wanted to go for a new look and get some more comfort with some chunkier tyres, timing was perfect as JDM Yard had recently imported some new DTM wheels from New Zealand. I opted for these wheels in 18X8" ET 40 with a set of Pirelli P Zero Nero's on it:
I have owned the car for nearly 2 years and was inspired to move to the VW world from the subie world after looking through a few threads on here and realising how fun you could make these cars. Its been a wonderful 2 years of ownership and this is a car I can see my self holding on for quite a few more years
Current Mods:
-3" X Force Stainless Steel Cat Back Exhaust with custom 314 SS Mid Pipe
-Forge Spacer
-Bilstein PSS Coilovers
-DTM 18X8" ET40 Wheels with 225/40R18 Pirreli P Zero Nero Tyres
-GIAC Tune.
-Second set of wheels 19X8 ET44 RS4 Wheels with 225/35R18 Falken FK452 Tyres
Future Plans:
-20% Window Tint
-Roll the guards to give me some more clearance in the back
-3" Dump Pipe
-Whiteline Adjustable Rear Sway Bar
-Possibly colour code the lowers
-Vortex Front Lip
How it looked when I brought it:
Then the 19s went on:
After trialing with some resonator deletes and after market resonators, I saw a new near X Force SS Cat Back exhaust on here and decided why not give it a try. Previous experiances with Xforce had been good and it turned out pretty well on my car.
After finding out how badly the mid pipe between the cat and rear axel had been munted by the local exhaust shop with previous experiances I had my local exhaust shop premier make up a 314 SS Mid Pipe for me:
With the cat back exhaust the car dynoed earlier on this year making 138KW at the wheels:
I then got sick of how the car sat and decided to do something about that and decided to fit some Bilstein PSS Coilovers:
End result being a much smarter looking golf which can attack corners much more confidently:
After this I decided to get the car tuned, going down the GIAC path has had a profound affect on how the car performs, it is stronger everwhere in the rev range and actually has a nice little kick which the car lacked in stock form. I havent had a chance to throw it on the Dyno yet, so I will have to wait and see what it pulls next month at the dyno day.
More recently I decided I wanted to go for a new look and get some more comfort with some chunkier tyres, timing was perfect as JDM Yard had recently imported some new DTM wheels from New Zealand. I opted for these wheels in 18X8" ET 40 with a set of Pirelli P Zero Nero's on it:
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