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Offline KennyGTI

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A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« on: 12 January 2011, 10:17 »
Since people think there is not enough tuning chat on here, Regal Motorsport are now selling the AWE K04 Kit for the GTI. There was a hold back with the kit for the Europe spec GTIs due to some slight differences but now its here. Test car made 315bhp with 340lb/ft with the kit plus GIAC software and only additional mod being 3" Turbo Back Exhaust. They seem confident that with an uprated intercooler and air intake can make in the region of 350bhp!  :evil: fun fun fun times! Kit retails at £1750 without software! :smiley:

http://regal-auto.co.uk/blog/?p=1150

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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #1 on: 12 January 2011, 12:48 »
Since people think there is not enough tuning chat on here, Regal Motorsport are now selling the AWE K04 Kit for the GTI. There was a hold back with the kit for the Europe spec GTIs due to some slight differences but now its here. Test car made 315bhp with 340lb/ft with the kit plus GIAC software and only additional mod being 3" Turbo Back Exhaust. They seem confident that with an uprated intercooler and air intake can make in the region of 350bhp!  :evil: fun fun fun times! Kit retails at £1750 without software! :smiley:

http://regal-auto.co.uk/blog/?p=1150

That's a crazy amount of power for two front wheels to deal with.  Before I got my GTI to took an RS Mountune MP350 out and the torque steer at 80mph in straight line in 5th gear was too much.

The RS was put to the bottom of the pile, test drives of other cars followed (R32, Edition 30, S3) and the GTI won :cool:


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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #2 on: 12 January 2011, 12:56 »
Right then, so who is gonna be the first to do it?  :evil:


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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #3 on: 12 January 2011, 13:52 »
God its tempting, few guys on other forums have fitted the APR kit and it sounds insane! :laugh:

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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #4 on: 12 January 2011, 15:01 »
God its tempting, few guys on other forums have fitted the APR kit and it sounds insane! :laugh:

That power through an R would be interesting but for everyday use that is far too much for a FWD car IMO!

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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #5 on: 12 January 2011, 15:14 »
Thats a lot of go for your dough  :wink:

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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #6 on: 12 January 2011, 16:10 »
That actually sounds like good value for money. Where's our official guinea pig SteveP?  :grin:

I kind of like the idea of it, but wouldn't use the car enough doing the right sort of driving to get any benefit from it. However if I end up keeping the car for some time, it's possibly the sort of thing I'd look at once the warranty gets near the end.  :evil:
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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #7 on: 30 July 2011, 20:16 »
Has anyone done this yet?

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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #8 on: 30 July 2011, 21:36 »
That actually sounds like good value for money. Where's our official guinea pig SteveP?  :grin:

I kind of like the idea of it, but wouldn't use the car enough doing the right sort of driving to get any benefit from it. However if I end up keeping the car for some time, it's possibly the sort of thing I'd look at once the warranty gets near the end.  :evil:

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Re: A.W.E. K04 Kit available for European GTIs now
« Reply #9 on: 30 July 2011, 21:45 »
Madness.

A simple remap is already getting to the limits of FWD.

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