Bluefin upgrade, other mods to consider?

[Jmac]

To be quite honest, I have never seen what the new ones look like or how they perform.. but when you're talking about modifying your car, its better to be safe than sorry. The BSH has been used in plenty of race cars without faulting.. and I'm pretty sure you wont be pushing your car harder than them. I have the BSH and can highly recommend it. Particularly when seeing the crap that comes out of the catch can when I empty it :S

I think the catch can is a top idea for that engine
Any pics???
Cheers
Jmac

[NabzGTI]

I think the catch can is a top idea for that engine
Any pics???
Cheers
Jmac

The catch can is definitely worth it.. and it doesnt take much to install apart from the damn charcoal filter. The only pics ive got are from another post I helped a fellow dubber with.

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f15/bsh-stage-2-catch-can-owners-install-advice-57557.html

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[jessv3]

So I installed the Bluefin unit on saturday, and didn't notice a huge increase in performance like other gti owners seem to report. It seems a little quicker up top and a bit more responsive in first gear but not sure if I can feel the extra 30kw like I thought I would. Maybe my expectations were a little high, or maybe my DV or PCV is already stuffed?

[TomC]

What's the quoted torque increase for the tune? Often the torque is where you "feel" the car pulling harder and is generally the main difference in an aggressive tune rather than a mild one (like Bluefin) rather than the kw output. For example the DNA mild stg1 (380nm) vs aggressive stg1 (410ish) tune is 30nm whereas the kw difference between the two is only 6kw.

[triode12]

So I installed the Bluefin unit on saturday, and didn't notice a huge increase in performance like other gti owners seem to report. It seems a little quicker up top and a bit more responsive in first gear but not sure if I can feel the extra 30kw like I thought I would. Maybe my expectations were a little high, or maybe my DV or PCV is already stuffed?

Is your engine running more smoothly?

[jessv3]

What's the quoted torque increase for the tune?

335nm so a 55nm increase which I thought would be very easy to notice. I can certainly notice some performance increase, like going up hills requires less effort but it just didn't shock me like I thought it would.

Is your engine running more smoothly?

I think so, slightly.

Hmm its hard to tell if its just in my head or not, is there any other way apart from a Dyno to find out how much power it has?

[triode12]

335nm so a 55nm increase which I thought would be very easy to notice. I can certainly notice some performance increase, like going up hills requires less effort but it just didn't shock me like I thought it would.

I think so, slightly.

Hmm its hard to tell if its just in my head or not, is there any other way apart from a Dyno to find out how much power it has?

It isn't a night and day difference for sure. Most of the gains should be higher up the rev range.

My GTI's fuel economy improved too.

[DNA Tuning]

335nm so a 55nm increase which I thought would be very easy to notice. I can certainly notice some performance increase, like going up hills requires less effort but it just didn't shock me like I thought it would.

I think so, slightly.

Hmm its hard to tell if its just in my head or not, is there any other way apart from a Dyno to find out how much power it has?

You can log a variety of parameters, in particular air intake mass and ignition timing to see how much more performance the tune is commanding.

55Nm is a very mild increase; our 380Nm tune (100Nm increase) is already considered mild, some of my customers end up going for the more aggressive tune as a result. Peak power we have to taper down to around 184kW(mild tune)/188kW(aggressive tune) to keep the turbo within safe operating limits; this can be opened up with our Stage 2/2+ programs with accompanying downpipe/intercooler/intake mods.

[jessv3]

You can log a variety of parameters, in particular air intake mass and ignition timing to see how much more performance the tune is commanding.

55Nm is a very mild increase; our 380Nm tune (100Nm increase) is already considered mild, some of my customers end up going for the more aggressive tune as a result. Peak power we have to taper down to around 184kW(mild tune)/188kW(aggressive tune) to keep the turbo within safe operating limits; this can be opened up with our Stage 2/2+ programs with accompanying downpipe/intercooler/intake mods.

I'm sure you're right John, a more aggressive tune would probably satisfied my needs but having said that I didn't want to compromise the long term reliability of the car considering I use it for work and I am already on 120k. I think I have to give the BF tune some more time.