Lots of modding done last week.....**Updated with pics**

[RedRobin]

get the car on some rollers and lets see what numbers its producing!   

....He's going to but he needs to let the remap and everything settle first.

[chungster]

currently mulling over the JKM K04 route or going Stage 2 you see.

£3k difference in cost out lay.  Which gives better VFM?

[Hurdy]

currently mulling over the JKM K04 route or going Stage 2 you see.

£3k difference in cost out lay.  Which gives better VFM?

Chop in the GTI for an Edition 30 would be less than £3k difference, surely?

[dan_apps]

currently mulling over the JKM K04 route or going Stage 2 you see.

£3k difference in cost out lay.  Which gives better VFM?

Chop in the GTI for an Edition 30 would be less than £3k difference, surely?

+ at the end of the day you have a special edition motor 

[WhiteGTI]

You'll have to return my favour one day and take me out for a ride to hear your APR in real life.

Enjoy!

Of course! They fitted the Pipercross filter for the time being, but I plan to wipe the filter oil off my ITG and put that back in

[RedRobin]

^^^^

That's a tricky choice, chungster. I think your answer would be in considering what additional mods you would spend the £3k difference on, so you can then decide based on which mods for the same money. Also the factor of how long you intend keeping the car.

[chungster]

lol.

My £3k diff calc is between going Stage 2 and doing the K04 conversion for my car.

Currently this is £2.5k vs £5.5k = £3k diff.

Is the difference between Stage 2 and K04 worth it?

Problem is I won't get much for my car (£12k-£13k) and probably need to pay more than £5k to get a 1 year old ED30 with the options i want. That makes modding and keeping the car a better choice.

[RedRobin]

They fitted the Pipercross filter for the time being, but I plan to wipe the filter oil off my ITG and put that back in

....The ITG is reputed to be the best you can get, but backing that up with hard scientific fact is quite another matter!

[RedRobin]

lol.

My £3k diff calc is between going Stage 2 and doing the K04 conversion for my car.

Currently this is £2.5k vs £5.5k = £3k diff.

Is the difference between Stage 2 and K04 worth it?

Problem is I won't get much for my car (£12k-£13k) and probably need to pay more than £5k to get a 1 year old ED30 with the options i want. That makes modding and keeping the car a better choice.

....Well, I think I'm right in saying that a modded Stage2 K03 GTI will 'outperform' a stock K04 Ed30. For example my Stage1 K03 GTI was plotting 230 bhp (same as stock Ed30). Personally, I'd be concerned about how to reduce traction issues if remapping/modding a K04 car - An additional £1.5k for a Quaife ATB, for example?

The quest for power must surely always be tempered by driveability and getting that power delivered.

[chungster]

But the ED30 will obviously need to be Revo'd lol.

true about traction...and is the extra grunt worth the extra £3k.

i can handle the £2.5k (already spent £2k which i can't believe lol ooops!) so total £4.5k on mods for Stage 2.

I dunno...this modding bug sucks!!!