RE: The Long Goodbye: VW Golf GTD
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Surrey Rolling Road. 20c ambient temperature
394.5hp
665nm torque
Custom turbo (roller bearing) with efr cw (52/70)
custom turbine wheel (i know specs but not sharing).
cw speed sensor
watercooled
tubular manifold
custom injectors
ported / flowed cyl head
custom valve springs
upgraded fuel pump
custom intake system
custom inlet manifold
12.9 head bolts
full 3 inch exhaust
helix 6 paddle clutch and smf
braided clutch line
chassis wise it was actually pretty good. 245/40/18 ad08r, 9 inch lightweight oz wheels
bilstein b16 coilovers
ground control top mounts
fully polybushed
roll center correction ball joints
h&r roll bars
peloquin lsd
fully strengthened and rebuilt gearbox
ttrs calipers with pmu pads and 340mm discs, s3 rears.
was not really a handful, until mid 2017 I was using it as a daily car.
onf track it was far better than i was and the limits were ridiculous.
done over 80k in it in the 4 years i owned it. only ever broke down once when clutch line failed.
it sounds like a lot of work but i was pretty much the first person in the world to push the vw common rail 2.0 engine with the help of my tuner, we did a lot of r&d. 4 years of constant tweaking and upgrade , but now we could get pretty replicable results with the components we have used again if desired for significantly less than it cost me !!!
totally smooth to drive on part throttle, started fine even when it was -5c and still did 50mpg on a cruise. and was pretty smoke free in the final tune .
the only car anywhere near where mine was, is the Darkside Arosa which is a drag car and so never saw road miles. (that got around 520hp with nitros, around 420 without). that had a fully forged engine and of course being a drag car had no considerations to smoke / temps / durability etc.
always will have a spot in my heart for these engines.
394.5hp
665nm torque
Custom turbo (roller bearing) with efr cw (52/70)
custom turbine wheel (i know specs but not sharing).
cw speed sensor
watercooled
tubular manifold
custom injectors
ported / flowed cyl head
custom valve springs
upgraded fuel pump
custom intake system
custom inlet manifold
12.9 head bolts
full 3 inch exhaust
helix 6 paddle clutch and smf
braided clutch line
chassis wise it was actually pretty good. 245/40/18 ad08r, 9 inch lightweight oz wheels
bilstein b16 coilovers
ground control top mounts
fully polybushed
roll center correction ball joints
h&r roll bars
peloquin lsd
fully strengthened and rebuilt gearbox
ttrs calipers with pmu pads and 340mm discs, s3 rears.
was not really a handful, until mid 2017 I was using it as a daily car.
onf track it was far better than i was and the limits were ridiculous.
done over 80k in it in the 4 years i owned it. only ever broke down once when clutch line failed.
it sounds like a lot of work but i was pretty much the first person in the world to push the vw common rail 2.0 engine with the help of my tuner, we did a lot of r&d. 4 years of constant tweaking and upgrade , but now we could get pretty replicable results with the components we have used again if desired for significantly less than it cost me !!!
totally smooth to drive on part throttle, started fine even when it was -5c and still did 50mpg on a cruise. and was pretty smoke free in the final tune .
the only car anywhere near where mine was, is the Darkside Arosa which is a drag car and so never saw road miles. (that got around 520hp with nitros, around 420 without). that had a fully forged engine and of course being a drag car had no considerations to smoke / temps / durability etc.
always will have a spot in my heart for these engines.
Edited by xjay1337 on Thursday 1st November 12:19
xjay1337 said:
Surrey Rolling Road. 20c ambient temperature
394.5hp
665nm torque
Custom turbo (roller bearing) with efr cw (52/70)
custom turbine wheel (i know specs but not sharing).
cw speed sensor
watercooled
tubular manifold
custom injectors
ported / flowed cyl head
custom valve springs
upgraded fuel pump
custom intake system
custom inlet manifold
12.9 head bolts
full 3 inch exhaust
helix 6 paddle clutch and smf
braided clutch line
chassis wise it was actually pretty good. 245/40/18 ad08r, 9 inch lightweight oz wheels
bilstein b16 coilovers
ground control top mounts
fully polybushed
roll center correction ball joints
h&r roll bars
peloquin lsd
fully strengthened and rebuilt gearbox
ttrs calipers with pmu pads and 340mm discs, s3 rears.
was not really a handful, until mid 2017 I was using it as a daily car.
onf track it was far better than i was and the limits were ridiculous.
done over 80k in it in the 4 years i owned it. only ever broke down once when clutch line failed.
it sounds like a lot of work but i was pretty much the first person in the world to push the vw common rail 2.0 engine with the help of my tuner, we did a lot of r&d. 4 years of constant tweaking and upgrade , but now we could get pretty replicable results with the components we have used again if desired for significantly less than it cost me !!!
totally smooth to drive on part throttle, started fine even when it was -5c and still did 50mpg on a cruise. and was pretty smoke free in the final tune .
the only car anywhere near where mine was, is the Darkside Arosa which is a drag car and so never saw road miles. (that got around 520hp with nitros, around 420 without). that had a fully forged engine and of course being a drag car had no considerations to smoke / temps / durability etc.
always will have a spot in my heart for these engines.
Thanks! Sounds mental going through all that for a 2L diesel but hats off to you fro doing something different. I've seen the Arosa (I think) on Youtube, yellow one? I take it the pic of that Scirocco is the car in question?394.5hp
665nm torque
Custom turbo (roller bearing) with efr cw (52/70)
custom turbine wheel (i know specs but not sharing).
cw speed sensor
watercooled
tubular manifold
custom injectors
ported / flowed cyl head
custom valve springs
upgraded fuel pump
custom intake system
custom inlet manifold
12.9 head bolts
full 3 inch exhaust
helix 6 paddle clutch and smf
braided clutch line
chassis wise it was actually pretty good. 245/40/18 ad08r, 9 inch lightweight oz wheels
bilstein b16 coilovers
ground control top mounts
fully polybushed
roll center correction ball joints
h&r roll bars
peloquin lsd
fully strengthened and rebuilt gearbox
ttrs calipers with pmu pads and 340mm discs, s3 rears.
was not really a handful, until mid 2017 I was using it as a daily car.
onf track it was far better than i was and the limits were ridiculous.
done over 80k in it in the 4 years i owned it. only ever broke down once when clutch line failed.
it sounds like a lot of work but i was pretty much the first person in the world to push the vw common rail 2.0 engine with the help of my tuner, we did a lot of r&d. 4 years of constant tweaking and upgrade , but now we could get pretty replicable results with the components we have used again if desired for significantly less than it cost me !!!
totally smooth to drive on part throttle, started fine even when it was -5c and still did 50mpg on a cruise. and was pretty smoke free in the final tune .
the only car anywhere near where mine was, is the Darkside Arosa which is a drag car and so never saw road miles. (that got around 520hp with nitros, around 420 without). that had a fully forged engine and of course being a drag car had no considerations to smoke / temps / durability etc.
always will have a spot in my heart for these engines.
Edited by xjay1337 on Thursday 1st November 12:19
Only just seen this thread so late reply. Didn't realise they'd taken these off sale now!
I ran a 2015 for 18-months and covered just under 40k miles. Was a great all round car in 5dr DSG form. As a few other posters have pointed out the adaptive cruise is a particular godsend for covering big mileage and makes long motorway drives very effortless. I was doing up to 750 miles some weeks and it was always an ideal companion.
Only annoyance I had was the tank range, struggled to ever get more than 500 miles out of it. The Mk6 2.0 TDI I had before came with a larger 55l tank and could do much closer to 600 miles without effort. I remember VW trying to justify it because the economy figures were higher but I think they were a little unrealistic as 50mpg was a more achievable average than the claimed 60mpg.
I'm not sure whether it should really have been pitched the same level as the GTI either. My MK5 GTI was definitely a much faster and more enjoyable drive.
Still it was a competent and likeable car that did what it set out to do well. I can't think of anything else with the same all round ability apart from perhaps a 335d xDrive Touring, which is also most likely off sale now
I ran a 2015 for 18-months and covered just under 40k miles. Was a great all round car in 5dr DSG form. As a few other posters have pointed out the adaptive cruise is a particular godsend for covering big mileage and makes long motorway drives very effortless. I was doing up to 750 miles some weeks and it was always an ideal companion.
Only annoyance I had was the tank range, struggled to ever get more than 500 miles out of it. The Mk6 2.0 TDI I had before came with a larger 55l tank and could do much closer to 600 miles without effort. I remember VW trying to justify it because the economy figures were higher but I think they were a little unrealistic as 50mpg was a more achievable average than the claimed 60mpg.
I'm not sure whether it should really have been pitched the same level as the GTI either. My MK5 GTI was definitely a much faster and more enjoyable drive.
Still it was a competent and likeable car that did what it set out to do well. I can't think of anything else with the same all round ability apart from perhaps a 335d xDrive Touring, which is also most likely off sale now
SidewaysSi said:
Pretty much every post is about saving money. Says it all.
A car you only bought if you need to save a few quid.
Absolute tosh.A car you only bought if you need to save a few quid.
You'd buy the equivalent but cheaper Skoda Vrs Tdi or the Leon FR if you were only focussed on money
And I speak as a previous driver of a 170 Mk2 and a 184 Mk3 Leon FR Tdi
I did 78k miles during three years with my Mk7 GTD. Quite competent but utterly dull. Very synthesised controls with over-servoed brakes which made it hard to modulate smoothly at low speed and nearly impossible to heal and toe. Plus the electric handbrake would unilaterally snatch on. Mine also used gallons and gallons of oil - sometimes as much as a litre every couple of thousand miles. VW always denied anything was wrong but that is nonsense.
To be honest, I was glad to see the back of it but that was partly due to sheer overexposure. I’ve never spent so much time in one car. Replaced with a Megane RS265 which is night and day better to drive - but rather more expensive to fuel.
To be honest, I was glad to see the back of it but that was partly due to sheer overexposure. I’ve never spent so much time in one car. Replaced with a Megane RS265 which is night and day better to drive - but rather more expensive to fuel.
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