OscarJ's Swedish Polo GTi project

[OscarJ]

Hi everyone, Ive already introduced myself in the newbie-forum, but I wanted to create a thread about my car here also.

This Friday July 17, I will travel to Stockholm to pick up my -09 GTi.
As I do some mods I will share some pics of it.

Regards // Oscar

At the dealer:

[mikepologti]

awsome, congrats on the car , you wont be disapointed there alot of fun.

[GoLfMan]

I want to see a GT28rs upgrade on this

[OscarJ]

I want to see a GT28rs upgrade on this

Yes thanx, it would'nt be wrong.
But for starters I will go looking for rims etc, I have already ordered H&R-springs to it..

[OscarJ]

Does anyone have some tips of cheap/easy tuning-upgrades to start with?
Have searched the forum but im not sure were to start.
Thinking about panelfilter, more serious BOV etc etc.

[Whubbsie]

seat intake and panel filter will be the cheapest.

suspesion wise rear sway bar easy to fit on your own.

biggest gain but not really cheap is getting the car chipped.

[Flaps]

Does anyone have some tips of cheap/easy tuning-upgrades to start with?
Have searched the forum but im not sure were to start.
Thinking about panelfilter, more serious BOV etc etc.

Get a reflash and a bigger dump/down pipe, that'll add 40kwatw from stock.

[Timbo]

Get a reflash and a bigger dump/down pipe, that'll add 40kwatw from stock.

I like a man who learns fast

[seangti]

I like a man who learns fast

You like men haha

do what flaps and whubbsie suggest, and upgrade the brakes. Will be a reliable lil rocket. I too have the H&R's, only done the springs with standard struts. I like the height and ride is generally good, except for on highways with the small expansion cracks, it gets a bit of a bounce/jiggle. Though on rough roads it fine (and we have plenty, it's fine). No idea if the H&R's are a progressive coils or anything, just slightly mismatched.

as for a BOV, do a search in here, it's been discussed to death with varying results. Non-atmospheric seem to be the most consistent, reliable result, though I haven't explored that path yet.

[OscarJ]

Thanks for the feedback!

Do you believe that its worth mounting just a bigger downpipe with another cat, or will the rest of the exhaust strangle the performance of the car?
(Money down the drain?)

Whats this Seat-intake? Whats the benefit of it?
Any part number/model?

[noone]

There are gains, but previous testing has found the gains from the full exhaust compared to the downpipe only to be pretty minimal (less than 10 off the top of my head).

Agree with the others, if you are not planning on a turbo swap soon then the following mods are a must:
- ECU flash (chip)
- Air Filter
- Seat intake (basically a wider piece of pipe to the air filter box to allow more breathing)
- diverter valve (full or partial plumback)

Plenty more options, but for power and pull, these are a great place to start.

i've gone with the springs which help, but am looking for some more handling mods. likely sway bar(s) and a front strut brace as there is a fair amount of flex in the front end (to me).

hopefully these will stop my traction control kicking in so often and spoiling my fun.

[OscarJ]

There are gains, but previous testing has found the gains from the full exhaust compared to the downpipe only to be pretty minimal (less than 10 off the top of my head).

Agree with the others, if you are not planning on a turbo swap soon then the following mods are a must:
- ECU flash (chip)
- Air Filter
- Seat intake (basically a wider piece of pipe to the air filter box to allow more breathing)
- diverter valve (full or partial plumback)

Plenty more options, but for power and pull, these are a great place to start.

i've gone with the springs which help, but am looking for some more handling mods. likely sway bar(s) and a front strut brace as there is a fair amount of flex in the front end (to me).

hopefully these will stop my traction control kicking in so often and spoiling my fun.

Do you have any info from wich Seat-model this hose comes from?

Next step for the handling I think as you say, is a swaybar in the rear.
Some friends I met trough racing with my Volvo has driven in the German ADAC Polo Cup, maybe there's some spec of the cars on the website:

http://www.volkswagen-motorsport.com/web/news/archiv.php?flash=&lg=e&st=6

[Blitzen]

Hey Oscar...Great choice on the car. I have a few of the more used upgrades on my Polo GTI. These may help you out too...So far I have...
K&N Panel Filter
SEAT Cold Air Intake
APR V2 Stage One Tune
APR Lower Torque Arm Bush
Forge Turbo Intake Pipe.
Forge Intercooler to Throttle Body Pipe
Forge Strut Brace
Forge Splitter DV/BOV
Weitec Lowered Springs
Whiteline adjustable Rear Sway Bar

I also have a couple of cosmetic things like the stubby antenna, Audi TT replica wheels, and gloss B pillars.
I am also looking at the APR Dump Pipe soon too, but Milltec also do one of these too.

APR site...(Not directed to you Oscar, but to anyone else who wants to have a moan about the link, PM me, and I will let you know what I think about these stupid chip wars that start...) This is just an example for you, but there are a number of tuning sites out there...I just had this in my Bookmarks...

http://www.goapr.com.au/products/apr_vw_products.html

This is all of the stuff you can get for the Polo GTI off the Forge website...

http://www.forgemotorsport.com/content.asp?inc=product&catalog=260501&cat=260501

Try looking in the sticky section of the Polo section for theads on upgrades.
Try these...SEAT intake...

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=6160&highlight=SEAT+Intake+Polo

BOV's...

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=15726&highlight=forge+bov

General Stuff...

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=11903

[OscarJ]

Hey Oscar...Great choice on the car. I have a few of the more used upgrades on my Polo GTI. These may help you out too...So far I have...
K&N Panel Filter
SEAT Cold Air Intake
APR V2 Stage One Tune
APR Lower Torque Arm Bush
Forge Turbo Intake Pipe.
Forge Intercooler to Throttle Body Pipe
Forge Strut Brace
Forge Splitter DV/BOV
Weitec Lowered Springs
Whiteline adjustable Rear Sway Bar

I also have a couple of cosmetic things like the stubby antenna, Audi TT replica wheels, and gloss B pillars.
I am also looking at the APR Dump Pipe soon too, but Milltec also do one of these too.

APR site...(Not directed to you Oscar, but to anyone else who wants to have a moan about the link, PM me, and I will let you know what I think about these stupid chip wars that start...) This is just an example for you, but there are a number of tuning sites out there...I just had this in my Bookmarks...

http://www.goapr.com.au/products/apr_vw_products.html

This is all of the stuff you can get for the Polo GTI off the Forge website...

http://www.forgemotorsport.com/content.asp?inc=product&catalog=260501&cat=260501

Try looking in the sticky section of the Polo section for theads on upgrades.
Try these...SEAT intake...

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=6160&highlight=SEAT+Intake+Polo

BOV's...

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newforum/upload/showthread.php?t=15726&highlight=forge+bov

General Stuff...
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/newf...ad.php?t=11903

Thank you! I will study your tips!

[mikepologti]

as you would know from reading the posts , the lil pog has growing traction issues the more mods you do , suspension like your getting also helps with this as you would know. a few people here on the forum also have pelequin lsd's which are really tbd's, which apparently help with getting the power to the ground out of turns.