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Right im thinking of playing with the cars engine this year.

Ive already got a BMC, and exhaust system. Plan to add a de-cat and cams at some stage also, followed by a remap

What else could i do? porting/ polishing?

any help would be good guys

Im sure this has been discussed in length before...

The amount of money you would have to spend to get a decent power increase from the engine would be pretty high...

It would be fairly easy to add a small supercharger...but would the gearbox take it?

I think most people look at it and just dont bother, either get a faster car or fit the 1.8T engine...

it has but couldn,t find the thread that discussed porting etc

im aware it prob would.nt be economical and would make sense to go get another car or a different engine, however i want to persevere with this one

If you're serious about doing it, I'd recommend looking for some of the old threads by a Greek guy who had the username poussou.

From a few years back, but the information should still be useful:

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... hp?t=10454

Theres a supercharged GTi around where I'm from. I think he's on his 3rd 'box.

thanks for that redline

No worries.

Just makes me realise I've been a member here far too long

They do say the GTI engines weakest area is the intake/head gas flow...

So if you fitted individual throttle bodies and had a really good go at porting and balancing the head, I suspect that is where your greatest power gain would come from!


If your going really really in depth you could increase the power and rev limit of the engine by stripping the entire thing down and having all the parts balanced and fine tuned (blue printed)...

But thats really REALLY silly money...

has anybody attempted throttle bodies on the gti yet?

1der wrote:has anybody attempted throttle bodies on the gti yet?

Tigz is having a jolly good go I believe!

Does anyone know who supplies a supercharger that fits or could point me in the right direction to find this out?

Si

http://www.rotrex.com/


Or a mini supercharger would fit, but that might take a bit more thinking!

I'm a silly person and would be prepared to pay silly money on my car

I did think about all this at one point but then I couldn't really be arsed with it all. So much cost with from what I can see as small gains just don't seem worth it.

Here is the solution (if you speak German and have a lot of cash):

http://www.sorgmotorsport.de/Kataloge/2 ... t_2008.pdf