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MILTEK '3" DOWNPIPE & HI-FLOW SPORTS CAT' AND 'FORGE' UPRATED DOG BONE MOUNT BUSHES :
Well This Was The Next Change To Be Done To My Golf As I Was Also Having An Issue At This Time To With My Miltek Cat-Back System 'Hitting' The Rear Beam When It was Hot  The Golf Was Also Due To Have A Service And At The same Time Have A Brake Fluid Change As Well As The Cam-Belt And Waterpump Changed/Replaced And The Auxillary Drive Belt Done.The Car Was Booked Into My Local Vw Dealer And Also Before Then I Recieved An E-Mail From Ben @ R-Tech Asking Me If I Would Like Their Generation 3 Map  Well What To Say Other Than Yesssssssss Course I Would  So I Rang Nick Up To Organise This And As Luck Would Have It Miltek Got Back To Me With My Exhaust Issue So I Arranged A Day To Go Down To Milteks Fitting Centre And Arranged To Meet Up With Nick & Ben For Them To Carry Out The Generation 3 Update,Well The Day Arrived And I Travelled Down To Miltek And Left My Car With Them Whilst They Sorted My Issue Which In Turn Was Found Out That The Cat-Back System Had Been INCORRECTLY FITTED!! Originally BY The Garage I Had Taken It To Be Fitted (needless to say i WONT be taking my golf to them!!! again) Miltek Informed Me That There Was Inadequipe Clearance When Cold Between The Pipe And The Beam So In Essence When The System Was Hot And Expanded It Was 'Hitting' The Rear Beam Resulting In The Banging And Vibration I Was Getting Well Big Thanks To Miltek For Sorting Out My Problem They Were Excellent!! They Also Advised Me Whilst looking At The Car To Upgrade My Dog Bone Mount Bushes To Help With The Car Now Producing More Power/Torque MMMMM Little Did I Realise What was To Come  Well Having my Miltek Now Fitted Properly Nick & Ben Duly Arrived To Upgrade My Map Well i Was Happy Before With The Original Map But The Revision Well Feck Me Its Awesome I Still Smile Everytime I Get In To Drive The Golf Nick Also Informed Me That It Would Be Ideally Suited With A Full Turbo Back System  How Much Did I Realise That They Would Be Famous Last Words  Ok So The Golf Went Into The Dealers For The Service Etc And Before I Went To Pick The Car Up I Got A Phone Call From Them Basically To Inform Me That They Had Run Vag-Com And An Error Code With Reference To The Cat Had Shown Up Unbelieveable  This Was Ironic So Had A Lenghthy Disscusion With Vw And They More Or Less Told Me That My Cat Was U/S  (which it prob was due to a previous coil pack(s) failure and a lot of unburnt fuel went in lol)Well I Asked Them For A Price For A New Vw Cat And Was Told To Expect It To Be About £430+VAT mmmmmmmmm After Taking All This In (i knew they could be right because the week before the emissions warning light lit up and i just kept dissconnecting the battery to clear it) They Asked If I Wanted It Changing Er No Leave It For Now Please  Now A Bit Of A Plan Then Came To Light And Out of Interest I Had A Look On Awesomegti's Website And Found That For LESS Money Than The O.e.m Cat I Could Have A Miltek 3" Downpipe & Hi-Flow Sport Cat Well Whats To Decide I Rang Vw And Told Them I Was Sorted Out  Miltek Here We Come Another Call To Nick And He Said That They Could Code Out The Warning Light When The New Cat Was Fitted For Me Result!! So Rang Awesome To Get The Golf Booked In And arranged To Meet Up With Nick & Ben At The Same Time Well I Couldn't Wait For The Fitting Day To Arrive It Couldn't Come Quick Enough Before Then I Ordered Up A 'Forge' Uprated Dog Bone Mount Bush Set After Remembering My Chat With Miltek This Arrived And I Fitted It Was A Nice Easy Job Really And Was Impressed With The Difference It Made To The Gearchange For One It Feels More Precise Now And The Restricted Movement Of The Engine/Transmission Under Hard Acceleration Is Definately More Noticeable To The Only Drawback Is As Everyone Says Cabin Vibration  Tbh I Get Abit When Cold On First Start Up But Get Down The Road 100 Yards And Its Gone I Get A Little At Tickover (but will have to alter the idle value on vag-com eventually) But Its A Small Trade Off imo For The Result So Worth The Money Well With That Sorted The Day Arrived For Me To Travel Across To Manchester To Get My Downpipe & Cat Fitted  Well Arrived At awesome And They Set About Fitting It Two Hours Later And My Golf Was Yet Again Transformed As They Drove It Out Into The Customer Parking Area Nick & Ben Arrived  So We Said We Would Go Down The Road To Update My Map File We Drove Down The Road Abit This Gave Me A Chance To Drive With My New Stuff Fitted And WOW Happy Or What  Nick Set About Updating My Map File Whilst Me And Ben Had A Play On Vag-Com  In Which We Enabled One Touch Un-Lock,Auto Locking And Alarm On/Off Beeps  Well Nick Finished And Wanted To Take The Car Out To Try Well It Was Slightly Damp On The Road But Nick Still Got The Golf Power Wheel Spinning In 3rd Gear With The T/C On  When He Told Me The 'Turbo-Back' Would Make A Difference He Wasn't Wrong The Car Combined With The Map Pulls Like A Feckin Train Good Torque/Power And The Turbo Spool Up Time Is Alot Quicker And Comes In Low Down The Revs Think Nick Enjoyed It  Good Job I Was Going To Be Replacing The Tyres Soon  Imo The 'Turbo-Back' System Is Worth Every Penny  Has A Lovely Sound To It Under Acceleration I Love It!!!! And Thanks Again To Nick & Ben
AKA NICK & BEN R-TECH MAPPING GOD'S :

NEW MILTEK 3"DOWNPIPE & HI-FLOW SPORTS CAT AND FORGE UPRATED DOG BONE MOUNT :

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O.E.M FRONT ARM REST :
Next To Come Was The Front Arm Rest Having Seen One Or Two Cars On The Forum With Them fitted I Decided I Wanted One  So A Look On E-Bay And All I Could Find At The Time Were Copies  But Then A Bit Of Luck Was On E-Bay When A Breaker Had Just Put An Advert On So Had A Look The Colour Was The Same But It Had A Grey Velour Lid Well For The Price That Wasn't Going To Stop Me As That Could Be Changed  So Quick Call To The Seller And The Armrest Was Mine To Be Delivered At The End Of The Week Meantime Over To My Local Vw Dealer To Order A New Lid To Match My Interior Fabric As Well As The Fixings Etc (As luck would have it i got hold of the last cover in the country for my trim  )Well All The Parts Arrived And I Got To Work Getting It Fitted A Clean Up Of The Arm Rest With Some 'Poorboy's'And It Looked Like New And Here We Are All Fitted. 
THE ARMREST & PARTS :



AND ALL FITTED :







UPGRADED BULBS-PHILLIPS 'BLUEVISIONS' :
Well Having Looked At One Or Two Cars On Here I Realised That I Should Upgrade My Headlight Bulbs From The Standard Vw 'Candles' So I Ordered The Phillips 'Bluevision' H7 Dipped Beam Bulbs H1 Main Beam Bulbs And Got The W5W Sidelight Bulbs For Free As Well As Some Forum Discount So All Good These Quickly Arrived And Having Read And Tried Before (whilst replacing the front indicator bulbs) How Akward Changing Bulbs On The Mkiv Is I Decided It Would Be Better To Remove The Front Bumper  I Got Them Fitted It Was So Much easier Removing The Front Bumper To Remove The Headlights To Get The Bulbs Fitted *note to self always remove the front bumper*And The Bluevisions Are A Huge Improvement Over The Standard Fit Bulbs So Highly Recommended. 
THE PHILLIPS 'BLUEVISIONS' :


THE STANDARD BULBS :



AND THE FRONT BUMPER REMOVED PRIOR TO FITTING :


COMPARISON 'STANDARD LOOK BULBS' :

COMPARISON 'BLUEVISION BULBS' :

MUCH NICER
NIGHT SHOT'S OF HOW THE 'BLUEVISIONS' LOOK :

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NEW FRONT GRILLE AND BADGES :
Well After Looking At Some Of the Golfs On Here With Black Badges I Decided That I Liked The Look So Went And Ordered A New Front Grille And Badge And A Sharan Badge And All The Paint To Set About My Little Project.
ALL THE PARTS FROM VW :



MAKING A START WITH PREP & PRIMER :






THE FINISHED GRILLE AND VW BADGE :




PAINTED BLACK 'G' & 'T' LETTERS OF FRONT GTI BADGE :

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REAR SHARAN BADGE :
MAKING A START WITH PREP & PRIMER ETC :












FINISHED SHARAN BADGE :

THE COMPLETED FRONT GRILLE,VW BADGE,GTI BADGE AND SHARAN BADGE FITTED ONTO THE CAR :

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SMOKED SIDE INDICATORS :
Having Got The Grille Badge And The Sharan Badge Finished And Fitted I Thought That A Set Of Smoked Side Indicators Would Contrast Well With The Black So I Went And Ordered Some  They Arrived This Week While I Was Finishing The Black Painting Of The Rear Gti Badge So I Decided To Put Them In They Are Not To bad Quality And Look O.e.m And Finish The Sides Of The Car Off. 
THE INDICATORS :


JUST A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE O.E.M ONES AND THE SMOKED ONES :

FITTED TO THE CAR AND HOW THEY LOOK :



BLACK 'G' & 'T' OF REAR GTI BADGE :


HOW THE BLACK BADGES NOW LOOK FITTED TO THE REAR :




BLACK 'G' & 'T' WITH RED/BLACK 'I' :

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R-TECH ROLLING ROAD DAY 28/03/09 :

Well Decided That I Would Attend The R-Tech Rolling Road Day So As To Get The Chance To Put My Golf On The Rollers To See What Sort Of Power/Torque The Cars Giving With The R-Tech Generation 3 Map And The Other Engine Mods I Have Put On The Golf Having Never Been On A Rolling Road Before I Was Looking Forward To The Experience As Well As Getting The Chance To Meet Some Of The Other Mkiv Owners And See Their Cars Was A Very Enjoyable Day /Experience For Me And I Was Pleased With The Golfs Performance  

ON THE ROLLING ROAD :



GRAPH OF MY POWER/TORQUE CURVE :
221.2BHP  242.1LB/FT :



Thats More Or Less Where I'm At With The Golf At The Moment I Still Have Some More Mods That I Would Like To Do On The Car And Will Be Working (Hopefully  ) Through The List As Money Permits  So Any Further Progress Will Be Posted Up Here In My Project Thread As Well As In The Mkiv Section Of The Forum 
THANKS FOR LOOKING/READING

Matt.

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UPDATE :

Well Thought I Had Better Get Round To Updating Some More Of My Progress Since The R-tech RR Day  After Seeing One Or Two Of The Other Golfs With The 'GolfGTI' Forum Numberplate Surrounds Fitted I Thought That Did Look Good And Also Supports The Forum And There A Good Price To So Got Them Ordered And Thanks Again To JV Who Posted Them Out To Me In Quick Time.

'GOLFGTI' NUMBERPLATE SURROUNDS :




MATT BLACK LOWER FRONT GRILLES :
Having Had A Re-Think With The Lower Grilles I.e. Decided That Because The Front 'GT' Letters Of My Grille Badge And The 'VW' Badge Were Painted Black Then The Lower Grilles Would Look Good Painted Matt Black Also So Ordered A Set Of Non-Genuine Grilles For Approx £35 And Got Myself Some Primer,Mattblack Paint And Laquer.

PRIMED :



SOME RANDOM PAINTED PICS IN VARIOUS STAGES OF PAINT :









COUPLE OF CLOSE UPS :



FINISHED PAINT & LAQUER COMPLETE :




HOW THEY LOOK FITTED :






'R32' ALUMINIUM DOOR TRIGGER MOD :
Well Having Seen This Mod On The Vortex Forum I Decided That I Would Like To Get Rid Of The Standard Chrome Look Triggers & Have The R32 Aluminium Looking Ones So With Some 600 Grit Wet & Dry I Set About Getting To Work.

BEFORE :


AND THE FINISHED 'R32' LOOK :





After Doing The Door Triggers I Decided That I Should Make The Handbrake Release Button Look The Same

ALUMINIUM LOOK HANDBRAKE RELEASE BUTTON :


Looks Much Better Doing This The Same As The Door Triggers And Just Finishes It Off 

Thats All Up To Date Now On My Further Progress As And When I Work Through My List I Will Update On Here

Matt.

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UPDATE 16/04/09 :
REAR BEAM BUSHES REPLACED (58,530 MILES) :
Having Stiil Not Got To The Bottom Of My Annoying 'Creaking' Noise From The Rear O/S I Ordered Up Some Oem Replacement Rear Bushes From The Stealers In A Bid To Sort The Noise  Having Removed Everything With The Car On Axle Stands On The Driveway And The Beam 'Dropped' I Decided On Looking At The Bushes That There Was No Way That I Would Get Them out Successfully On The Drive  So Put Everything Back Together And Rang a Local Garage For A Quote And Was Quoted The Price Of £40.00  So Imediately Booked The Golf In For 15/04/09 Got The Golf Back And Was Pleased Early Signs Are That The New Ones Are A Definate Improvement 
THE NEW O.E.M REPLACEMENTS :
 

But Even After The Bush Replacement I Still Had The Annoying 'Creaking' Noise  But The Mechanic Confirmed My Other Theory  (Faulty Shock Absorber) So A Call To 'DPM' For A Replacement 'JOM' Shock Which They Had On The Shelf So I Collected It This Morning And Duly Set About Removal/Refitting Old & New Got Everything Fitted And Went Out For A Drive To Check Everything Out And At Last I No Longer Have Any Noise From The Rear O/S So At Last I Now Have Found And Sorted The Noise  (After Inspecting The Old Jom Shock It Was Found To Be Faulty)So If You Get A 'Creaking' Sound/Noise From The Rear Of Your Mk4 This Could Be Worth Looking At 

Will Update Further As And When Any More Progress Is Made : 
Thanks For Looking.

MATT.

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UPDATE 18/04/09 :
'N249' VALVE BY-PASS MODIFICATION :

Well Having Read 'BaV's' 'How To-N249 By-Pass Mod' I Decided To Carry Out The Mod To Mine Today Using/Following BaV's How To Which Was Well Explained And Descriptive With Loads Of Pics Clearly Showing Each Stage Got Some 'Blue' Silicone Hose And A T-Piece This Morning And Set To Work Earlier This Afternoon  Having Tried The Car Out After Finishing The Mod I Must Say The Car Seems A Little More Responsive Now And Has A Little More Noise When 'Dumping' From The Forge D/v When Accelerating And Backing Off  Definately A Worthwhile Mod To Carry Out On Your 'Aum'd' Mk4

STD VAC PIPES ETC REMOVED FROM THE N249 & N112 VALVES :


THE N249 BY-PASS MOD FINISHED :





Any Further Updates Will Be Added As And When I Progress 
Thanks For Looking :

MATT.

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Updated 20/04/09 :
NOW ALL BLACK 'GTI' BADGE :

Had A Look At The Rear 'Gti' Badge Yesterday After Giving It A Wash And It Looks Like The Red Tape I Used On The 'I' Letter Has Started To Fade  So Therefore I Decided To Get The Primer & Mattblack Paint Out Again And Remove And Spray The 'I' For A Complete 'Black' Look 
THE FINISHED BLACK 'GTI' BADGE LOOK :



Further Updates On Progress Will Be Added.
Thanks For Looking.

MATT.