Finally time for some updates on this one.
Things have stalled a bit over the last couple of months and I lost a bit of love for the car and APR Stage 3 kit. The repairs after the rod incident took longer than I hoped and when I got the car back it wasn't 100% right. I was going to do my normal thing and rush into having some more work done, I am glad I took a bit of time out to refocus on things again.
The result is the car is all back together properly thanks to KPM
![Not Worthy :notworthy:](https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/Smileys/newsmileys/notworthy.gif)
and today I took the car back to APR HQ to meet Joel and Zach (fresh off a plane this morning from the States) to update the calibration on the stage 3 file.
A before dyno run was completed which showed the engine was running as well as before rod-gate
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Then Joel got to work on improving things, and the end result a nice increase in the mid range with good gains on peak BHP and Torque.
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And an overlay for three runs from today
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And the result on the road, a much more eager car then now feels like the step up from a K04 I was looking for.
Just need to find a spare TFSI head now so I can get that shipped to APR US so the rest of the power can be gained from the turbo and fuel upgrades
![Laugh :laugh:](https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/Smileys/newsmileys/laugh.gif)