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Mk5 GTI No2 - Hybrid Turbo 340/340

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Washout:
Tidy motor dude. How u finding the airtech inter cooler, what was the fitment like. Cheers

Greigzy:
Only completed about 50 miles with it on and still need to take logs to compare the difference from the standard GTI cooler, to the S3 and airtec cooler.

It seems to perform well, seems to pull a little better and stay on boost a little longer - but this could be down to replacing the buggered diverter valve haha.

It's really fitted ahead of fitting my K04. The S3 cooler I believe is more than adequate for the K03 and I'm hoping the airtec will give me that little bit more over the S3 when the K04 is fitted.

Washout:
How about the pipe work dude I know the forge fitment isn't supposed to be that good so I was considering the airtech as its cheaper and highly rated by the ford lot.

Greigzy:
Pipe work seems ok - it come with the option of either the GTI cooler connections which are easily removed if you have an s3 cooler or uprated cooler. The seem strong and unlikely to collapse under pressure etc.

The turbo outlet to intercooler (not the twin cooler) inlet was a little difficult, but managed to adjust it into place with no real issues. Unsure how these compare to the forge versions - this came up for sale locally at a very good price and it was almost silly not to go for it.

Greigzy:
So the car has been running great since I spunked a heap of money on it a few month ago.

Me being me, I have fettled with a few things over the past couple of months.

1. 2 new rear wheel bearings as they were minced.

2. 'R32' rear lights - to save myself £200 I split the existing items and painted the silver innards black. All went well until I cracked the plastic on the passenger side light  . So it has 3 homemade R32 lights and 1 genuine one at this time  :grin:.

3. My old knob was looking a little worn out, so replaced it with a mk6 gti version - nice know with red stitched gaitor to match the handbrake.

4. Fitted my Kufatec heated seat and electric bolster loom - not a hard job, but took a fair amount of time. As Kufatec only make this for the LHD cars, I ended up switching the driver and passenger seat looms over so that the control module was on the driver seat. This saved extending the loom. The only change then to fitting the loom, was switching the wires that go into the plug for the climatronic around (pins 10 and 11). Enabled them with vagcom and turned off the seat occupancy and it worked first time  :smiley:.

Trying to remember that this is a 'cheap' daily while I save for a house, so sold the K04 and the KW's. The only future plans I have are to fit my highline clocks that I have, fit an android headunit that looks like an RNS510 so I get bluetooth etc and fit xenons as they look ace. Also contemplating going back to Monza II's or pescaras etc over the current wheels for a more OEM feel.

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