Fire and Ice eats S3....

[GavG60]

was at no-rice with a couple of mates last night, one of them has a fire and ice g60, the other a b reg 8v with a g60 conversion.

dead posh guy there with a blue two tone mk2 reg plate "posh git" you may have seen him at the shows... he now has an S3 conversion sitting under the bonnet.. a challenge/discussion ensued and the I was following the fire and ice and the s3 mk2 up the A3......

kept up with them till about 130mph then thought better of it as picked up three points on friday morning.... :'(

Anyway, as they pulled away, the fire and ice was kicking arse and had about two car lengths and growing..........

[Dizzie]

Was it a Black mk2 with blue arches and bumpers? If so that's Richgit's. He hasn't got a S3 engine. it's from a Cupra R. Apparently it's ment to be running about 300bhp. Obviously it's not...

[GavG60]

that's the one. I'm sure they said he'd just put an S3 lump in..?

[davidhawkins_78]

Yeah I remember hearing the same Gav - fastest Pizza boy in a Fire & Ice in the south eh ?

You see the 'Diz whiz' clocks in there too ?? Jammy git !!

[GavG60]

those clocks are causing him trouble dave, last time I saw him last night he was on the hard shoulder of the m25 about 11.30pm....... the clocks are shorting the ignition and keep stopping the car dead....

[Dizzie]

yeah Gav. he tells everyone it's a S3 engine, but it's really a Cupra R engine. No difference really, but the principle. 

[GavG60]

k n o b 

[davidhawkins_78]

So what's the main difference between the 2 dizze - both are 1.8 T's right??

S3 is about 230 bhp think .... Cupra R is about 200 ... or am I completely wrong ??

[Speedydub]

We went past a couple of golfs stopped, one with german plates i think???

[Dizzie]

both came in 210 and 225 flavors afaik.

they're practically the same. It's just better pub bragging rights if it's from a S3 instead of a Cupra R really.

All the 1.8t 20v's are the same engines. There are a few minor differences though. the 150's and 180's have the k03 turbo. the later models having the k03 sport turbo (slightly larger/better) whereas the 210's and 225's have the larger k04 turbo. good for 270/280bhp. The TT lumps have better bottom ends so I've been told.

I could be completely wrong. this is just what I've heard and read.

Oh, the early 150 Golf engine with the AGU code has a large port head. Knightrider has fitted this to his car. Gives a bit more go when you start tuning it really. Best fitted to a TT bottom end I read.