MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: Janner_Sy on October 31, 2012, 12:43:45 pm
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Just seen this from our APR Australia.
Seems their Golf R has literally wiped the floor with the competition, including 3 other Golf R's.
http://goapr.com.au/htc12.html#/4 (http://goapr.com.au/htc12.html#/4)
Why dont we have magazines doing challenges like this in the UK??
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Why dont we have magazines doing challenges like this in the UK??
How many people would be interested in it though? It's pretty niche...
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You say that, but when you consider how big the Japanese, VAG, french and ford tuning scenes are, if they were to combine cars in an "equivalent" set of groups i think there would be alot of interest
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So how does this translate into the real world?
I don't see huge numbers of customers flocking to their nearest APR dealer and I don't see APR having much interest in anything other than big turbo specials so far. :indifferent:
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Without bothering to read the whole magazine article, does APR walk away from this being $75,000 richer?
How was that prize money raised? - It's a lot of dosh.
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Without bothering to read the whole magazine article, does APR walk away from this being $75,000 richer?
How was that prize money raised? - It's a lot of dosh.
think you misread that, for a tuning company to enter a car into that category it had to be sub $75k including car and ALL mods.
So how does this translate into the real world?
I don't see huge numbers of customers flocking to their nearest APR dealer and I don't see APR having much interest in anything other than big turbo specials so far. :indifferent:
Ian, i merely posted the link for those interested in reading it. Theres alot of TFSI big turbo work going on across the forum recently, so id imagine there's a few guys on here who would read it.
Not wanting to get into the old debate, because i agree, its boring but would you have the same response if it was REVO?
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Probably Sy as it doesn't relate to anything relevant for me.
I prefer stuff that exists in the real world for Joe Public not one offs.
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Probably Sy as it doesn't relate to anything relevant for me.
I prefer stuff that exists in the real world for Joe Public not one offs.
I agree, i think that sort of power is pointless, Ive said the same thing to tfsi_mike many times with his car(Because we all know he will go BT eventually :grin:)
Still like reading about it though, impressive stuff for a Golf!!
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Thanks for clarifying that, Sy - Yes, I had another OAP moment and misread it. :happy2:
Even though I have no interest in fitting a bigger turbo, not even a K04, I think that threads about it are very interesting and anyway, it's easy not to read threads if not of any interest. So thanks for posting :happy2:
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it says that the cost was $99,280 including the car... thats not sub 75k ?
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it says that the cost was $99,280 including the car... thats not sub 75k ?
guess its the car and mods then lol. :ashamed:
Its not relative to our market UK market anyway, Australia pay MUCH more for their cars than we do in the UK
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Probably Sy as it doesn't relate to anything relevant for me.
I prefer stuff that exists in the real world for Joe Public not one offs.
I agree, i think that sort of power is pointless, Ive said the same thing to tfsi_mike many times with his car(Because we all know he will go BT eventually :grin:)
Still like reading about it though, impressive stuff for a Golf!!
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Just had a skim through (so apologies if I missed something) but there is no details of each car's mods and half them seem to be missing from the list of results :confused:
Also, it says the Golf R is 234KW (which equated to around 314bhp IIRC), yet it runs 11's?!?!?! I call BS!!! Unless of course it's just a Golf R shell?
With the sort of money that is spoken about in this test, the results are pretty lame to be honest (with exception of the Golf R). I assume the other Golf R's were manual also (judging by their 0-60 times)? As we all know how easy it is to get daft 0-60 figures from modded .:R's with DSG.
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Just had a skim through (so apologies if I missed something) but there is no details of each car's mods and half them seem to be missing from the list of results :confused:
Also, it says the Golf R is 234KW (which equated to around 314bhp IIRC), yet it runs 11's?!?!?! I call BS!!! Unless of course it's just a Golf R shell?
With the sort of money that is spoken about in this test, the results are pretty lame to be honest (with exception of the Golf R). I assume the other Golf R's were manual also (judging by their 0-60 times)? As we all know how easy it is to get daft 0-60 figures from modded .:R's with DSG.
Again its says its stage 4 .. im guessing stage 4 on a golf r is around 500-600bhp ?
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Just had a skim through (so apologies if I missed something) but there is no details of each car's mods and half them seem to be missing from the list of results :confused:
Also, it says the Golf R is 234KW (which equated to around 314bhp IIRC), yet it runs 11's?!?!?! I call BS!!! Unless of course it's just a Golf R shell?
With the sort of money that is spoken about in this test, the results are pretty lame to be honest (with exception of the Golf R). I assume the other Golf R's were manual also (judging by their 0-60 times)? As we all know how easy it is to get daft 0-60 figures from modded .:R's with DSG.
254kW WHP though. Its putting down slower times than the APRUK stage 3 Golf R and thats about 50-60hp down on the stage 3+ cars of Dan and steve.
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Just had a skim through (so apologies if I missed something) but there is no details of each car's mods and half them seem to be missing from the list of results :confused:
Also, it says the Golf R is 234KW (which equated to around 314bhp IIRC), yet it runs 11's?!?!?! I call BS!!! Unless of course it's just a Golf R shell?
With the sort of money that is spoken about in this test, the results are pretty lame to be honest (with exception of the Golf R). I assume the other Golf R's were manual also (judging by their 0-60 times)? As we all know how easy it is to get daft 0-60 figures from modded .:R's with DSG.
254kW WHP though. Its putting down slower times than the APRUK stage 3 Golf R and thats about 50-60hp down on the stage 3+ cars of Dan and steve.
That would explain things a little better then.. :wink: Shame everything else was poor though.
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It is not great considering that they are running 104 octane fuel :scared:
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See sy! You thought this thread wouldn't be interesting. :driver:
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Should get you into 10s I'd have thought With those on :popcornsoda:
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Uk Apr stage 3 golf R does mid 11's
Aussie Apr stage 4 golf R does 10's
Apr stge 2 plus golf r does low 12'a
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Uk Apr stage 3 golf R does mid 11's
Aussie Apr stage 4 golf R does 10's
Apr stge 2 plus golf r does low 12'a
GIAC Golf R is also low 12's at stage 2+ equivalent
My Golf R on Revo stage 2+ (limited torque) did a 12.6 at full weight and normal tyres.
I'd say most stage 2+ software and a DSG map will give a Golf R DSG low 12's on the strip.
Adding WMI gets you into the high 11's.
Just a Stage 1 tune and an intake will get you into the high 12's :happy2:
With the Golf R and DSG it is almost as much about the DSG map settings as it is the engine tune. :driver:
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No matter who the tuner is, all they've won is the "who can throw the most amount of money at a car, and bend the rules in their favour" prize.
These are meaningless.