Hello!
I'm Julien, a French guy living in Bulgaria. I've always been more or less into VWs (my first car was a 69 beetle). I own a black magic Edition 30 I bought from new in 08/2007. I wanted a new, cheapish car with more than 200hp (I didn't want anything slower than my 185hp '92 Saab 900) and after looking at crap Opel Astra OPC and nice but bad looking Focus ST, I went to see the Golf, thinking it would be more expensive... It was cheaper than the others, better built, better looking. Perfection! Finally I love this car : it can to everything, from going to the supermarket to having fun on B-roads, it's fast (almost) enough, comfortable enough, not a common car at all here, though pretty subtle (I think there is only my ed30 in Bulgaria!). Well, it's all he car I need for now.
The car is now bone stock (except from the sound system), but I'm now willing to adress some issues from the car : the brakes (I plan to do a 996TT conversion on front / R32 conversion back) as the original ones are crap and I love to drive enthusiastically, and I burn my brakes very fast (I love twisty mountains roads, which are not easy on the brakes...), suspension (don't know which setup yet, I'll open a topic about this), and maybe then a remap (probably Revo stage 1 as I can source this easily from Greece, 1 hour from my place). I'll also make some othe modifications, which will all be in an OEM+ spirit (podi boost gauge on its way, I plan to put some BBS CH028 so the look rmain the same but the stance changes a little + it will clear the brakes) and some othe stuff like this... So I'll surely seek help from you !
Other interestests? Cars (I currently also own a '92 Saab 900 T16S and a restored '54 beetle which are in France), and MTB (mainly DH / freeride), though I don't have time to ride as much as I'd like (too much work
).
Julien
