Stage 3 ??

[fireblade51]

Hi Madone, where  abouts are you from, I have APR stage 3 + your more than welcome to take a test drive if local, but it now has AWD conversion, so it's now completely different, in all honesty 360bhp is enough in a fwd golf, mine has 480 and was prety much unusable up to 80 unless tyres ad08's were well up to temp, and you can't do that all the time, well you can but it's going to cost a fortune in tyres lol, I have 4 settings on my car, and had it on 3 almost all the time 360bhp and that was usable, so unless you go my route which will be posted very shortly on here, just waiting for garage to send me build thread, I would save the money,if you do go stage 3 plus you really have to go AWD, take it from me, I've had both now, roads were really wet this morning and the grip is like night and day now, and I can finally use all the power, well most of it just a few more miles running in, on a few parts.

[fireblade51]

Ps please don't all ask for a test drive,

[tommygti]

I was literally going to ask this question myself. I have just bought a S3 CDL engine which I'm going to fit in my mk5 golf. The plan is to go stage 3 hybrid, most likely along the lines of tte420 or turbo dynamics hybrid. I already have the supporting hardware ready to fit but my issue is how am I going to put the power down in a FWD car. An AWD drive conversion is not that difficult but its a hassle compared to just fitting a LSD.

[Madone]

Hi Madone, where  abouts are you from, I have APR stage 3 + your more than welcome to take a test drive if local, but it now has AWD conversion, so it's now completely different, in all honesty 360bhp is enough in a fwd golf, mine has 480 and was prety much unusable up to 80 unless tyres ad08's were well up to temp, and you can't do that all the time, well you can but it's going to cost a fortune in tyres lol, I have 4 settings on my car, and had it on 3 almost all the time 360bhp and that was usable, so unless you go my route which will be posted very shortly on here, just waiting for garage to send me build thread, I would save the money,if you do go stage 3 plus you really have to go AWD, take it from me, I've had both now, roads were really wet this morning and the grip is like night and day now, and I can finally use all the power, well most of it just a few more miles running in, on a few parts.

Thanks mate, I'm near Woking. Not sure if that's local for you. I guess the bottom line is I have the modding bug and am getting the itch after doing 2+ some time back. Do I need to do it, def not ! Haha, would I love it ?, oh yes....

Does everyone feel the bottom end, gearbox, etc etc is ok with 400+ hp ?, I obviously don't want to have to rebuild the engine every 10k. Tbh I don't drive it hard all the time anyway, it's really a weekend toy that gets the odd blast full gas, mainly I use the massive torque and enjoy it rather than thrash it (if that makes sense)...