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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #30 on: March 06, 2013, 09:43:12 pm »
Who mentioned the S3, when is that due out. 

In the meantime Ive been offered an 12/62 1800mile RS3 for £36k!  Which Im sure I could get for £35k, which is very good value.  But have also been looking at R's, but considering my ED35 had everything bar roof and ACC, thats what Id want, and that will be a very rare spec...

Decent price that. Has to have embroidered recaros though! :drool:

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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #31 on: March 06, 2013, 09:48:30 pm »
Something silly like 340bhp on Stage1?
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #32 on: March 06, 2013, 09:53:04 pm »
Something silly like 340bhp on Stage1?

Or more surely, thats only 40BHP up on standard.  The Ed35 went up 75BHP on stage 1.
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #33 on: March 06, 2013, 09:53:59 pm »
Who mentioned the S3, when is that due out. 

In the meantime Ive been offered an 12/62 1800mile RS3 for £36k!  Which Im sure I could get for £35k, which is very good value.  But have also been looking at R's, but considering my ED35 had everything bar roof and ACC, thats what Id want, and that will be a very rare spec...

Decent price that. Has to have embroidered recaros though! :drool:



Not at that price, and to be fair not that practical with kids.  Im going to drive one again at the weekend. :happy2:
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #34 on: March 06, 2013, 09:56:29 pm »
It must be more than that then. Someone mentioned how the latest A4s with the same lump have been mapping, and its very positive.
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #35 on: March 06, 2013, 09:59:09 pm »
Something silly like 340bhp on Stage1?

There 300 standard so I'd imagine a little more but we'll soon see. Saying that if Oli (and his misses) can tolerate the older interior of the RS3 that's the engine to have. A mapped 2.5 TFSI, especially S-Tronic are just another level
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #36 on: March 06, 2013, 10:01:11 pm »
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #37 on: March 06, 2013, 10:06:19 pm »
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2013, 10:24:00 pm »
If wifey likes RS3 and Golf R.... buy a porker 911!  :happy2:

Sold my 911 last year, not very practical

So 987 Cayman R is probably a no go then.. 
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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2013, 10:39:44 pm »
As per title just sold the car!  Lovely car, but the lack of grip, and approx 320BHP always annoyed me a little.  However, driven correctly and the rewards were massive.  It doesnt help seeing Hurdy's thread on his car, that with similar mods, I can get 4 seconds to sixty, in all weathers, in an R!

However here is the dilema - Do I get a Golf R, which to all intents and purposes will feel the same as what Ive just sold,  but would need to be a big specification, to match the ED35. 

Or do I go for an RS3, which is quick out the box, will hold its money as well, if not better than the R, and with a re-map, takes it into the sub 4 seconds category.  And the sound is awesome.  However the interior is a bit long in the tooth, as is the Nav, but it is an RS!

Or do I go for an B8 S4 Avant, which with a map is 450BHP, and would be a serious sleeper.  My wife doesnt however need a big car, as she only does school run etc, and I run a SPortline Kombi if we need something bigger.

I think I might have answered my own question, reading back my answers.  It looks like Im leasning towards the RS3...

Or do I wait for the MK7 R or new S3.........but Im not one to wait!

Open for discussion??

+2 on this mate
I've got a ed30 modded to stg2+,lots of traction issues...going to px it in July for a rs3 or golfR...


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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #40 on: March 07, 2013, 07:29:48 am »
Something silly like 340bhp on Stage1?

Or more surely, thats only 40BHP up on standard.  The Ed35 went up 75BHP on stage 1.

Isn't the ED35 the same engine/turbo as the R just detuned, ergo you would achieve the same headline figure from a stage 1 tune?

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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #41 on: March 07, 2013, 08:47:43 am »
I love the whole I have gone stage 2+ and got no traction  :signLOL: get some good tyres sort the suspension out and all the other front end stuff like mounts fit an LSD and then your traction problems are sorted. Too many people just go power mad and are plain lazy and don't sort all the other bits out

Mods yes but way too many to stick in this little box

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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #42 on: March 07, 2013, 08:49:29 am »
New a45 AMG

Yeah, definitely worth investigation. I saw a blue AMG-kitted A-Class on the road the other day and I really didn't expect to like it as much as I did. I imagine the A45 AMG will look epic.

I love the whole I have gone stage 2+ and got no traction  :signLOL: get some good tyres sort the suspension out and all the other front end stuff like mounts fit an LSD and then your traction problems are sorted. Too many people just go power mad and are plain lazy and don't sort all the other bits out

A diff right Mat?

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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #43 on: March 07, 2013, 08:50:11 am »
Yeah

Mods yes but way too many to stick in this little box

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Re: Just sold the Ed35, what next?
« Reply #44 on: March 07, 2013, 09:13:26 am »
I love the whole I have gone stage 2+ and got no traction  :signLOL: get some good tyres sort the suspension out and all the other front end stuff like mounts fit an LSD and then your traction problems are sorted. Too many people just go power mad and are plain lazy and don't sort all the other bits out

Haha, and I love these quotes, no matter how much suspension, tyre and diff mods, help a 2wd drive car on our greasy winter roads  :happy2: And it was only stage 2 :P
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