All Things Mk5 > Performance Modifications
Going Stage 2+
bbfb10:
Right then boys and girls, lve saved a few pennies and am looking to go from stock straight to Stage 2+. Im very excited.
I know l need an intercooler and a downpipe, l dont want a decat so have been looking at the 'ebay special' Direnza sports cat pipes. Ive searched on here and found differing opinions. Does anyone have a first hand review or opinion of one?
In terms of intercooler am l best to go for an S3 one or are the ebay specials just as good? Again, first hand opinions would be great.
Im tempted by the R-Tech Wellycooler, but dont know a great deal about them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Ta. Ben.
jacobrownoly:
--- Quote from: bbfb10 on March 05, 2016, 08:44:30 pm ---Right then boys and girls, lve saved a few pennies and am looking to go from stock straight to Stage 2+. Im very excited.
I know l need an intercooler and a downpipe, l dont want a decat so have been looking at the 'ebay special' Direnza sports cat pipes. Ive searched on here and found differing opinions. Does anyone have a first hand review or opinion of one?
In terms of intercooler am l best to go for an S3 one or are the ebay specials just as good? Again, first hand opinions would be great.
Im tempted by the R-Tech Wellycooler, but dont know a great deal about them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Ta. Ben.
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Stage 2+ is great. You will need an intercooler tho to get the best out of it.I would look at Airtec and is much better than the S3 one. In terms of exhaust you only need a de-cat downpipe, you can get one off eBay for £150 (leave your cat-back stock).
I just made 280bhp and 400nm on stage 2+ the car is great!
Chris92:
Id go with full exhaust system, my pal had his r at r-tech going stage 2+ but only had a de cat downpipe on instead of a full system but they said he come of had another 10-15 bhp with a cat back on.
Ricky123:
S3 intercooler is more than enough for stage 2+ on k03 turbo and is a lot cheaper than other options.
I had a direnza cat back on a previous gti and it was fine, can't comment on long term use or a sports cat as I didn't have the car long enough and didn't use one of there sports cats.
Decat would be a better choice, it will be mapped so you don't have an engine light on with the decat fitted. It will just need swapping at mot time unless you have a friendly mot man. Not a huge job anyway so worth considering.
The biggest restriction on the exhaust is the cat/downpipe the rest of the system will efffect performance but I never felt any real difference myself going from stock cat back and decat to aftermarket cat back and decat.
c4pete:
Hey Ben,
What did you end up doing? I'm looking at the Direnza down pipes with sport cat, be curious what you thought if you fitted one.
Cheers,
Pete.
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