Westons' GTI - returning to standard

[Weston]

No fair! 

And it's my favourite price 

[Weston]

U Lucky man! Let us know how it goes 

Will do, looking forward to it now 

[Weston]

Massive thanks to Nick & the R-Tech Team. I'll do a proper write up once I know what I'm going to say. I'll post the dyno graphs as well once I've got them. Engine now freely revs to 7000rpm & the changes are faster & smoother.

So far I'm very pleased, there was even an increase in torque 

Thankfully they also removed my Forge Spacer  which would've been causing a 20bhp loss in power.

[Weston]

You said the spacer would have caused 20bhp loss did they prove that with a dyno run or just told you?

That figure was from another golf, not my actual car. It was proven on the dyno though. I'll sort out a review as soon as I've had a proper go with it & worked out the pros & cons 

[RedRobin]

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If we are talking about the Forge Spacer on the turbo line it never made sense. It's just a noise maker and if it actually dumps air instead of recirculating it as the 2.0T FSI is designed to do, then it's counter productive.

In this case, I think that Forge are guilty of bringing something to market which is merely pandering to the boy-racers by providing a sound at the expense of performance. I'm not anti-Forge btw - I run a Forge Twintake and am very happy with it indeed.

[R-tech-Nick]

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If we are talking about the Forge Spacer on the turbo line it never made sense. It's just a noise maker and if it actually dumps air instead of recirculating it as the 2.0T FSI is designed to do, then it's counter productive.

In this case, I think that Forge are guilty of bringing something to market which is merely pandering to the boy-racers by providing a sound at the expense of performance. I'm not anti-Forge btw - I run a Forge Twintake and am very happy with it indeed.

+1

"Sir do you want performance and power or phisssshhhh every time you change gear and sound like a chav"

Same with the 1.8T Forge split-R I refuse to sell then and wont tune cars with them on.

[GTI Osprey]

Waiting for this review ...

[Weston]

Swapped the summer wheels back on 





And stuck a couple of decals on

[Weston]

DSG remap review:

Not gonna bother waffling on for ages so here are the main points from the last few weeks:

Positive
Smooth, faster changes
Increase in torque
S won't upshift on its own
Louder & more frequent DSG "farts"
Manual mode won't upshift or downshift if you floor the accelerator.
 
Negative
S is very very eager to drop down
D holds 1st a bit too long at low speeds in traffic
D won't change to 6th till about 50mph or 5th till about 40mph

Car is now running 248bhp & 400Nm of torque iirc (awaiting graphs from dyno...come on Nick!)

[RedRobin]

^ Is that one of VC's? It's different from mine - I don't have the outer cog ring.

[Tfsi_Mike]

Where have you been Robin?   

Its VCs ltd edition forumGLO

[Gene Hunt]

Summer rims look ace  .Just in time for the snow  .

[Weston]

Summer rims look ace  .Just in time for the snow  .

Thanks I've missed them lots! Can't see it snowing down here in the South West, I hope!

Where have you been Robin?   

Its VCs ltd edition forumGLO

Yeah they're both glow in the dark ones 

[RedRobin]

^^^^
Glowing in the dark is just a bit too much for me!

I forgot to say how great your Steel Grey colour looks when it's clean 

[Weston]

^^^^
Glowing in the dark is just a bit too much for me!

I forgot to say how great your Steel Grey colour looks when it's clean 

Cheers Robin, i try to keep it fairly clean when possible  They only glow a bit unless you charge them up with a big torch so they're not too obvious.