MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Malcolmgt on July 27, 2021, 09:21:19 pm

Title: New Pirelli owner!
Post by: Malcolmgt on July 27, 2021, 09:21:19 pm

Picked up my edition 30 Pirelli today. Had a stage 1 Gti before and it doesn’t seem much slower which was a surprise. DSG is good.

What sports cats do people recommend and where do you get yours? Don’t fancy just an eBay special if they are awful.

Thinking stage 1 but may go stage 2. 😂.

Title: Re: New Pirelli owner!
Post by: chimp400 on July 28, 2021, 09:47:17 am

Have a look here, very nice quality systems popular with Mk 5 owners.
https://www.powervalve.co.uk/

Title: Re: New Pirelli owner!
Post by: pudding on July 30, 2021, 09:31:06 pm

That isn't really a surprise as a lot of standard K04 engines put down more than the factory quoted 230ps, especially over winter :happy2:

Stick with stage 1.  The (diminishing) returns from Stage 2 and above don't justify the cost of the supporting hardware in my experience.  Put the money into handling and braking instead.

Sports cats are crap unless they are massive, most barely scrape through the MOT in year 1 and 2, and then just flat out fail.  Nothing compares to the OEM cats in terms of MOT passing, unless you know some dodgy back street garage who will stick the O2 probe up a 1.0 Fiesta's pipe instead of your car's for that part of the test  :happy2:

Title: Re: New Pirelli owner!
Post by: Malcolmgt on July 31, 2021, 06:09:01 pm

Thanks both, appreciate it.

May be a stupid question but should there be a ED30 specific induction kit as most I see have a pipe down to the front of the engine where as the normal GTI Just go over the back of the engine to the side?