MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Members Rides => Topic started by: Greigzy on February 21, 2016, 10:48:15 pm
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So back in a Mk5 GTI. Some of you may remember my old one (there is a build thread somewhere). Planning to move out this year, so the M3 and the Golf were sold and the Veloster is going back to work this week. Bought this around 3 weeks ago.
2005 Mk5 GTI
Tornado Red
140,000 (holy sh*t balls)
10 speaker upgrade
Auto lights/wipers
FSH with 11 months MOT.
Looked at 3 cars over a week and this one (coming from down south originally) was very clean. No rust on the rear arches or quarters and the wings were done 18 months ago by VW. Small bit of rust under the wing at the sill but will sort that. The other cars just werent as clean, and other than the damage to the front seat (bad bolster wear) it was too good to miss for the price I offered.
Currently I have done the following:
New HPFP cam follower
New Loba HPFP
New GTI rear badge
GTI Open vents (from Dads original GTI)
Fitted an Edition 30 interior (heated and electric bolster still to be wired in)
New interior handles
Mk6/chrome window switches/fuel flap and headlight dial
Full detail (including wet vac of interior and carpets and sanding and polishing headlights
Also have a highline dash to fit and multifunction buttons
Couple of pics - wont bore you with all the detailing ones as I can do a thread on that:
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Future plans are:
Fit my highline clocks and buttons.
Fit and RNS510 satnav
Fit heated seat loom
Depo projector headlights
Re diamond cut the alloys
Fit K04 and uprated parts (once I have moved out)
Thanks for getting to the end of a long and boring post!
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Looks like a good clean base to start! :)
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Looks in good condition
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Approve!
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Cheers folks! Link to my previous mk5:
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,78752.msg821137.html#msg821137 (http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,78752.msg821137.html#msg821137)
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So used it for the first full week and have done around 350 miles returning about 36 MPG which is pretty good.
Got my plates on:
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Got a bargain from Chinese Ebay with a £12 red stitched handbrake gaiter (for the complete sleeve). Just need a matching gear gaiter:
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And fitted a polo 6R aerial I had sitting about:
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Also ordered some rear footwell lights and door light looms along with an LED reversing light (handy for reversing in the pitch dark with me) from boldsport.
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Lovely car - love the Tornado Red (partly cos I have one).
I've also got the Edition 30 interior in mine with the matching gear gaiter and steering wheel. Just missing the leather door cards (and an armrest).
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A few changes! I'll start with tonights!
A local forum user kindly offered his friends BBS SR's 18x8 in exchange for any 5x112 alloys + £100, as the car was being traded in tomorrow! Could say no! They came with a set of week old Michelin Pilot sports and Bridgestones that have about 5mm tread :)
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I dont think the photos do them justice, and the fronts sit a little high, nothing these cant fix:
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They are hooring dirty, but are a set of KW V1 Inox :)
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Also fitted a CTS intake for mad sook sook noises.
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Should go nice with my Airtec FMIC and Golf R intercooler.
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Looking forward to seeing these wheels in the flesh!! Some nice touches as always Greigzy! :happy2:
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A busy few days on the golf. Now that Open Uni is finished for the summer, it has given me a lot of free time to play about with cars again, meaning I could start working through the pars hoard:
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Items fitted were the following:
Rev G diverter Valve
New PCV and gasket
Relocation of diverter valve to K04 position using OEM piping etc
S3 short shifter
ECS tuning rear dogbone mount
S3 intercooler
Airtec front mounted cooler
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Putting it back together, I repolished the headlights off the car (REALLY wanted to fit xenons but have spent enough this month) and a repro front bumper with smooth plate, until I get my real bumper repainted.
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Car feels a lot better - far smooth, faster (obviously) and actually better mpg too. I do think the 2 biggest improvements are down to the S3 short shift and the ECS mount though
Also 2 more quick pics
1. coming over Glenshee on the way home from the girlfriends:
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2. A friends birthday present to me - a custom print from his side venture Performance Prints - he can customise the drawings to your wheels and mods etc too :)
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Tidy motor dude. How u finding the airtech inter cooler, what was the fitment like. Cheers
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Coming along well. Some nice photos to look at, wheels look pretty nice and a bit different.
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looks pretty decent :)
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looking very nice
i also have an ed30 interior in a red gti :happy2:
i need to get a heated seat loom is it fairly straight forward swapping the looms over on the seats ?
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looking very nice
i also have an ed30 interior in a red gti :happy2:
i need to get a heated seat loom is it fairly straight forward swapping the looms over on the seats ?
Eddie NL did mine and he did make it look easy........
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Yeah it's just a disconnect reconnect job where the connections are on the bottom
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thanks guys :happy2:
good luck with the car rash i am sure i have seen your forum name before somewhere
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thanks guys :happy2:
good luck with the car rash i am sure i have seen your forum name before somewhere
I was on the Audi TT forum with the same username when I had my TT's and the Corrado forum when I had my Corrado.
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Couple of small updates. Fitted new discs and pads on the rear and repainted the calipers (nothing exiting so no photos).
Been keeping an eye on ebay the past few months for edition 30 panels. Luckily have managed to get the rear bumper and side skirts for a bargain, so got around to fitting them over the past two weekends. The passenger side needs a little more work as it seems to have been slightly kinked in transit, but getting there.
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Also, finally got my highline clocks coded and fitted (purchased these with my seats).
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Looking good, ed30 bits have transformed the car
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Nice Greigzy!!! The rear looks so much better! Must have a catch up to compare notes! :happy2:
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Looking smart. Nice mods :happy2:
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So about a month ago, this changed slightly. I was initially looking for a turbo back exhaust to go stage 2+, so purchased a full BCS system with sports cat in 3":
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However, while it was off, I thought it was a good chance to upgrade the turbo (Dans old one):
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It's a LOBA LO410-EA113DV, which is allegedly capable of 410hp.
I then booked it in with Ecotune, who spent the day complete a custom map for me, giving me this:
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340HP/341 lb/ft. Turbo is performing at around 21PSI
The torque value has been kept low to protect the bottom end with it being a higher mileage car. It was running 368 lb/ft was taken down a tad.
The guy at Ecotune was pleasantly surprised at what it achieved, saying it made better power than the K04 converted GTI he had in the day before. I still need to fit my RS4 FPRV, which should stop it going rich at the redline, and will hopefully release a little more power, as the requested rail pressure is a little higher than what it is putting out.
This is without the S3 injectors and S3 Map sensor - it has been suggested with these I will comfortably hit around 380hp..However before that, an upgrade to brakes and suspension is required!
I have driven it like this for 1000 miles or so with no issues. It's actually great to drive, gives you a good punch, quick spool and is pretty controllable - until it rains :lol:
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You sly dog! Must be a real hoot to drive!
My old K1 at stage one was a handfull in anything other than bone dry!
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Glad to see it doing well for you and very surprised at what they say the potential is. Very interesting to see you running 21psi making that power, very well mapped :happy2:
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I had my eye on this turbo. Not very often an affordable low mileage k03 hybrid comes up for sale! Good to see it staying on the forum though, and it looks a nice map - holds the torque right up the revs. Very nice.
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Cheers guys. They were genuinely surprised with the capabilities on the day.
I would suggest Ecotune to anyone btw. Great bunch of guys and very very knowledgable! On that day alone there was about 6 TFSI cars that had been worked on/were being worked on or waiting for work!
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It's nice to see a higher mile car getting this sort of thing done. Making me want to spend some money :laugh:
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It's nice to see a higher mile car getting this sort of thing done. Making me want to spend some money :laugh:
It was never meant to be this way haha!
It was cheap to buy and I have been lucky with the prices of parts. The bodywork is generally in good condition and it has fsh!
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It's hoorin' dirty, but I kinda like the photo. Needs lowered a tad though. MOT is on Saturday, so hoping it passes :)
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That is pure filth, but it is a good picture. :happy2:
Every car gets dirty this time of year, nothing wrong with that.
Chris
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So it passed its MOT on Saturday. Winner:
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I also fixed the brake light issues (finally) by replacing the clutch hall sensor on the master cylinder. No more blown fuses.
And 2 pish photos of the car clean for about an hour, before I drove up to Aviemore for the weekend.
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Any news?
What happened to this?
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hi mate,
need more on this turbo!!!
what do i need to convert a k03 turbo to hybrid?
cheers
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hi mate,
need more on this turbo!!!
what do i need to convert a k03 turbo to hybrid?
cheers
You will need either a cnc machine or to buy one from say Turbo Technics. Then 3 bar map sensor / s3 injectors plus usual stage 2+ add ons and possibly uprated clutch for @360 bhp / lb ft after remap.
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hi mate,
need more on this turbo!!!
what do i need to convert a k03 turbo to hybrid?
cheers
You will need either a cnc machine or to buy one from say Turbo Technics. Then 3 bar map sensor / s3 injectors plus usual stage 2+ add ons and possibly uprated clutch for @360 bhp / lb ft after remap.
Iv done all the stage 2+ upgrades except the turbo. I have a doner turbo ready to build into a hybrid unit. I was just wondering if it’s possible to build yourself.
Cheers
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Is basically the guts of a k04 in a k03 housing, so you would need to do some machining. Turbo Technics do new ones outright for @750 with billet compressor and better bearing. I dare say you can find someone to do the work but the saving won't be huge. IIRC Rtec do drive-in conversion packages with remap.
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The car was sold on Christmas Eve 2016.
I ended up buying a large amount of parts from it for an edition 30 I bought in 2018 - the owner I bought the parts from (3 after me) was breaking it as he thought he would make more money than selling it whole.
Since then I have had 2 Edition 30s (both have threads on here) and have just finished ‘restoring’ my 5th mk5 gti - a 2005 1 owner from new GTI, which will be for sale in a couple of weeks.