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Dans grey MK5 GTI. Prepping for VagTuner
AJP:
I stand corrected!
If it's a k04 engine it'll have lower compression.
dansmith180:
--- Quote from: ducman77 on August 06, 2016, 11:45:05 pm ---Hey Dan,
Just read your build thread start to finish. Taken me quite a few hours :happy2:
Absolutely love all the transitions the car has been through! Class!
I really liked the Merc wheels in black with the red centres :happy2: But I think overall the stance with the TD's looks the best now :smiley:
Can't wait to see how you get on with the mapping. Due any day now?
I'm about to go K04 on my AXX - so I'm a bit nervous and will be interested to see how your BWJ motor performs :evilgrin:
What's the main difference between AXX and BWJ? I don't know much about the BWJ :ashamed:
Cheers mate,
Dave
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Thanks very much mate. Basically the BWJ lump is K04'd Cupra lump from stock so has bigger injectors, lower compression ratio and stronger internals along with the bigger turbo. They've been proven to handle 400bhp+ all day long which is why I went for one as I plan to abuse it and want reliability.
Basically the BWJ/ BYD and CDL lumps are all the same except I think theres as small tweak on the CDL that allows for slightly improved fueling so technically that's the best one. The BHZ which the first gen of 8P S3's came with wasn't great although still decent.
She got dropped off for mapping yesterday and will hopefully be back in a week :jumpmove: :jumpmove:
dansmith180:
So it's been a while since I've updated as the car has mostly been sat on the drive dirty and my time has been taken up with something else for the last couple of months.
I bought some track/ slag wheels off a mate last weekend.
Nothing too special but they were cheap, strong and wrapped in Federal RSR's
But as usual there's an issue
Loads of room behind the spokes
Just clears the barrel (a bit tight for my liking tbh with the heat they will be under)
Along comes Mr wheel weight to ruin the party. Due to the shape I might be able to have them re-balanced much further back but tbh it's a bit close anyways and was as usual an impulse purchase. So looking to sell and maybe just do a track day at Bedford on 19th September using my PS4's as it'll just be a bedding in session anyways
Dropped the car off at R-tech yesterday who unfortunately were closed so I'll be speaking to Niki on Monday I believe.
POV shot of where the magic happens :rolleye:
So now she's just waiting to have all the horses packed in and hopefully doesn't bloody break anything.
dansmith180:
OH WAIT
I totally forgot I had a full exhaust fitted aswell :doh: :doh:
On July 18th I went to EMP for a full 3" turbo back exhaust as mine was pants.
First of all they had a very very very nice waiting room
The exhaust wasnt too bad either :signLOL:
Looks amazing and sounds great too. It's virtually silent on the motorway but nuts when you get on it. Only issue is at the moment I have a really annoying and quite loud rattle when engaging forward gears and driving under 1500rpm's which I suspect is the exhaust and Vibratechnics mounts not making good friends so need to take it back to be looked at soon but that's not their fault really.
Shoduchi:
Liking the new exhaust! :happy2:
Not sure about the Vibratechnics bushes... Dog bone, right? I have them with my BCS Powervalve and it's fine. :confused:
Hope you get that sorted soon and the BWJ remapped. :evilgrin:
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