ok....so i raced this 07 Golf GTI at the track, but no times...the stuff wasnt on i guess.
anyway. my car consitis of these mods....AEM CAI and a CHERRY BOMB TURBO muffer...thats it...and i have 2 10" Subs.
the GTI is Turboed...is it not?
i smoked him.
bad...
i laughed.
is this normal?
what do you all think?
but in this i learned a lesson....
my car is NOT faster than an SRT-4 neon..
but i knew that.
no, i raced a GTI 1.8 T from a red light and he was brake boosting (auto) and i jumped on him and then pulled about 1.5 cars on him and i had a fat ass friend in the car with me
all i have done is a full exhaust, intake, plug wires, coil, UDP,
i also hung with a MR2 turbo he pulled on me a little
remember guys focus has low end torque so it give you a good launch with is just as important as the rest of the run cause me and a friend of mine used to drive around a bit hes got the 04 gti 1.8 t and i got a spi and on the highway he can move and i normaly just follow but i got bored one day and cut of the O/d and passed him up on the highway and come up a ways before i let off . so i think torque plays in just as much if not more then HP
I dont know about all these GTI killer stories, I have driven these cars and they are pretty quick even with the wieght. The drivers had to have been retarded, but like everyone says a kill is a kill.
totally i drive these all day at work and always think about buying one, there fast as is. sounds like the driver is bad.
good win.
on another hand i racer a 2008 wolfsburg jetta 6speed 200hp turbo'd stock, sameish engine from the GTI, we did a rolling start at 45ish buy the time we got to 85-90 he only has about 1/2 a car to 1 car on me. and i also know that car has some speed as well. and it had a good drive i know them.
1.8 gti sure i can see that easily enough, but now with the new 2.0 gti and its 200 ponies thats a different situation, because that thing has way more torque than any stock focus.
It really isn't at all that much of a different situation than the previous generation. It's only a 20bhp difference but at the same time the weight has gone up quite a bit: 2857lbs vs 3100lbs...
I've run against both the new GTI's AND GLI's and neither has whooped me, but I haven't beat them either.. it's always been very close- 1/2 a fender or so...
i stomp my buddies 97 jettta al the time (his has a 2.0 n/a audi engine with all the bolt ons and a built auto tranny. but then again his stereo weight in at a good 300 lbs more on top of the factory weight
yes it is...my buddies 08 rabbit would WALK all over most modded zetecs.
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