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Need some help on starting
LoneWolfForLife:
--- Quote from: AJP on May 10, 2015, 06:11:24 pm ---I'll rebuke my original post as it was a bit sarcastic and doubtfully helpful.
The thing about making a sleeper out of a mk5 GTI is convincing people it's not a GTI, as people have said. To do that you'd have to remove the GTI bodywork - skirts, bumpers etc, and replace them with original bog-spec items as seen on 04 140 diesels and the like. You could get away with keeping the Monzas.. that would almost be a double bluff, as in "look at that Golf Match with GTI alloys, what a wannabe" etc.
Engine wise.. if you're serious then a k04 turbo and injectors with a map to suit will see 290+ bhp. Don't worry about inlet, exhaust and all the rest of it. You can run a k04 with your existing hardware and the right map and it will all remain quiet and stealthy.
But, and this is a HUGE BUT, in order to truly attain the sleeper you envisage you'll have to strip the body of all its best bits, lose money on replacement bumpers, lose money on new GTI skirts when you realise the ones you took off don't go back on neatly.... the list goes on.
For me a true sleeper is an unassuming car with an engine and chassis that far exeeds the capabilities of the oem engine and chassis of the car in question. So an engine swap and good suspension basically. Only really applies to a 'project' and the like.
If however, you were in the position to drop a highly tuned TTRS engine into a bone standard GTI, that could I suppose constitute a sleeper. Not saying that's realistic, just a principle.
Maybe just enjoy the fact you drive an (almost) iconic hot hatch and don't get hung up on downgrading it. :-)
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I was looking into a K04 turbo setup, with intercooler and all the pricey things that it needs but im in no obvious position to be using that much money, yet anyways. I heard that the gti needs a catch can? And i think the first bit of money i get will go into a beltronic radar detector. Ive had too many close calls. And i love my car, but i wonder how an r32 feels like power wise, any idea?
mk5-beast-91:
Turbo back exhaust with sport cat. Most of the gains made is from the down pipe and its quiet restritive. For oem get a resonator to.
AJP:
--- Quote from: LoneWolfForLife on May 10, 2015, 07:21:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: AJP on May 10, 2015, 06:11:24 pm ---I'll rebuke my original post as it was a bit sarcastic and doubtfully helpful.
The thing about making a sleeper out of a mk5 GTI is convincing people it's not a GTI, as people have said. To do that you'd have to remove the GTI bodywork - skirts, bumpers etc, and replace them with original bog-spec items as seen on 04 140 diesels and the like. You could get away with keeping the Monzas.. that would almost be a double bluff, as in "look at that Golf Match with GTI alloys, what a wannabe" etc.
Engine wise.. if you're serious then a k04 turbo and injectors with a map to suit will see 290+ bhp. Don't worry about inlet, exhaust and all the rest of it. You can run a k04 with your existing hardware and the right map and it will all remain quiet and stealthy.
But, and this is a HUGE BUT, in order to truly attain the sleeper you envisage you'll have to strip the body of all its best bits, lose money on replacement bumpers, lose money on new GTI skirts when you realise the ones you took off don't go back on neatly.... the list goes on.
For me a true sleeper is an unassuming car with an engine and chassis that far exeeds the capabilities of the oem engine and chassis of the car in question. So an engine swap and good suspension basically. Only really applies to a 'project' and the like.
If however, you were in the position to drop a highly tuned TTRS engine into a bone standard GTI, that could I suppose constitute a sleeper. Not saying that's realistic, just a principle.
Maybe just enjoy the fact you drive an (almost) iconic hot hatch and don't get hung up on downgrading it. :-)
--- End quote ---
I was looking into a K04 turbo setup, with intercooler and all the pricey things that it needs but im in no obvious position to be using that much money, yet anyways. I heard that the gti needs a catch can? And i think the first bit of money i get will go into a beltronic radar detector. Ive had too many close calls. And i love my car, but i wonder how an r32 feels like power wise, any idea?
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A mapped tfsi makes short work of a 32. And a big shouty v6 is hardly stealthy.
AJP:
--- Quote from: mk5-beast-91 on May 10, 2015, 08:27:48 pm ---Turbo back exhaust with sport cat. Most of the gains made is from the down pipe and its quiet restritive. For oem get a resonator to.
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Agreed.
LoneWolfForLife:
--- Quote from: AJP on May 10, 2015, 08:48:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: LoneWolfForLife on May 10, 2015, 07:21:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: AJP on May 10, 2015, 06:11:24 pm ---I'll rebuke my original post as it was a bit sarcastic and doubtfully helpful.
The thing about making a sleeper out of a mk5 GTI is convincing people it's not a GTI, as people have said. To do that you'd have to remove the GTI bodywork - skirts, bumpers etc, and replace them with original bog-spec items as seen on 04 140 diesels and the like. You could get away with keeping the Monzas.. that would almost be a double bluff, as in "look at that Golf Match with GTI alloys, what a wannabe" etc.
Engine wise.. if you're serious then a k04 turbo and injectors with a map to suit will see 290+ bhp. Don't worry about inlet, exhaust and all the rest of it. You can run a k04 with your existing hardware and the right map and it will all remain quiet and stealthy.
But, and this is a HUGE BUT, in order to truly attain the sleeper you envisage you'll have to strip the body of all its best bits, lose money on replacement bumpers, lose money on new GTI skirts when you realise the ones you took off don't go back on neatly.... the list goes on.
For me a true sleeper is an unassuming car with an engine and chassis that far exeeds the capabilities of the oem engine and chassis of the car in question. So an engine swap and good suspension basically. Only really applies to a 'project' and the like.
If however, you were in the position to drop a highly tuned TTRS engine into a bone standard GTI, that could I suppose constitute a sleeper. Not saying that's realistic, just a principle.
Maybe just enjoy the fact you drive an (almost) iconic hot hatch and don't get hung up on downgrading it. :-)
--- End quote ---
I was looking into a K04 turbo setup, with intercooler and all the pricey things that it needs but im in no obvious position to be using that much money, yet anyways. I heard that the gti needs a catch can? And i think the first bit of money i get will go into a beltronic radar detector. Ive had too many close calls. And i love my car, but i wonder how an r32 feels like power wise, any idea?
--- End quote ---
A mapped tfsi makes short work of a 32. And a big shouty v6 is hardly stealthy.
--- End quote ---
I have an fsi, its an '08. I wish it was a tfsi. If i get facts wrong, go easy on me. Im new with this car and its my first car
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