Gavs RD Technik GTI build

[RUFNIT]

OMG CARBON!!!!!! That looks incredible, also noticed the Porsche Oil cap.... Where did the cover come from??? Was it a custom order, can't find it anywhere....

MR

[gavs]

So far I believe it's the only one in existence....

[gavs]

So, after an incredibly long absence from posting (i've been lurking in the shadows every now and then however....) what has been happening to the Project Polo.... Well, it's going in for a lobotomy

Kris is Melbourn'es RD Technik rep and he popped over the other day and we had a chat about what we could do with the polo's thinking bits. This is because I have been planning a DSG tune ever since I got the car but after speaking with RD Technik, the ECU tune is considerably more powerful than the viezu stage 2+ tune I am running and the DSG tune will actually increase power and torque due to optimising the power delivery. The ignition cut will no longer sound like a pfffft and instead be replaced with an A45-esque CRRRACK!!! due to the increased gearchange speed.

All of this is very exciting and has taken so long because the main things happening to the Polo are that it's been getting it's new stable renovated for the last 12 months as well as a ~45 year old stable-mate restored so they won't be lonely

Bring on the power.....

[RoknRob]

Looking forward to seeing the results of this! Will the engine components be able to take it? You never had your pistons replaced, did you? Following with interest!

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[SloAu]

Gavs.. where you ever considering this DSG7 clutch with Kevlar disks ?

[Angus]

Some videos would be nice.

[tigger73]

Sir you may have to change your thread title....

[gavs]

Looking forward to seeing the results of this! Will the engine components be able to take it? You never had your pistons replaced, did you? Following with interest!

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Completely safe with the internals and nope, never had the Pistons replaced either. These guys have recently finished their "crazy-fast" map on a golf R with all stock internals on a daily driver and its happily producing 500hp, albeit with quite a few hardware mods like fuel delivery as well as the basics of intake, exhaust etc...

[gavs]

Gavs.. where you ever considering this DSG7 clutch with Kevlar disks ?

Yeah, I am now!! And tigger, it will be updated in time

[RoknRob]

Completely safe with the internals and nope, never had the Pistons replaced either. These guys have recently finished their "crazy-fast" map on a golf R with all stock internals on a daily driver and its happily producing 500hp, albeit with quite a few hardware mods like fuel delivery as well as the basics of intake, exhaust etc...

In light of your most recent posts, regarding all the inherent problems with the pistons in vehicles of our generation (among other things) ... Aren't you worried about pushing it?

Some time ago, I was advised by a tuning outfit to reconsider, given my pistons hadn't been replaced... A seller refusing to sell me their product! Well, that has me concerned. Which is why I was wondering if you had had yours fixed...

Why aren't you worried?!

[RoknRob]

Completely safe with the internals and nope, never had the Pistons replaced either. These guys have recently finished their "crazy-fast" map on a golf R with all stock internals on a daily driver and its happily producing 500hp, albeit with quite a few hardware mods like fuel delivery as well as the basics of intake, exhaust etc...

Oh, and performance Golfs have a much longer history and much more robust internals. I don't believe that because your tuner can tune an R, that tuning your car is necessarily safe. Not comparing like for like, there...

[gavs]

Nah mate, of course it's not but the main point is that these guys create power by optimizing every element required to make the power, not just up boost pressure, tweak fuel etc. they also optimize power delivery in each gear so just by fine tuning the horrible factory engine mapping they can generate a pretty huge leap over the standard vehicles. Also, I've had a tune for over 60000 of the 90000+ kms I've done and the car has always been better in regards to fuel economy as well as oil consumption since the tune so after working with Viezu initially to help develop a tune in light of the inherent issues with this platform they have supposedly taken this into consideration when developing the tune to iron out the software related kinks that can cause premature wear and failure. After seeing what RD Technik does, these guys take it to another level in regards to their programming so I will be even more confident with their product....