Hi, Guest
08-18-2006, 01:44 PM
if you want a good little car with decent gas mileage the TDI will blow everything else out of the water. there is also more than a few things you can do with the little 1.9L TDI lump. basic tuning laws apply, so a turbo back exhaust and intake along with a tune will get you some great power. you can get some good parts from http://www.dieselgeek.com/ to keep the car running for a long ling time. i have seen a few local 00 TDI's with 400,000+km on them and going strong!
as for the SVT, most of it has already been covered.
in most cases, an aftermarket exhaust will actually lose hp over the stock exhaust.
A Tune, lower mount, short shifter, UDP and ORP do a lot for making the cars more lively than they come stock. TB's are nice but some people like them and some don't. you can run a single cam gear on the exhaust cam and many say the gains are minimal in power but improved drivability, i have yet to do one so i cannot verify this. but dyno tuning said cam gear would be highly suggested. there are also VCT delete kits that in the works that will allow you to run aftermarket Zetec cams.
the DSI metal clip is an area of issuue as are the intake manifold couplers, upgrades are available or you could build your own... or almost all of which can be had from CFM.
if you are serious about a TDI, get on http://www.vwvortex.com and start asking questions there about what can be done to the engine for more power with minimal drop in mileage... then again, 1000km/tank even if you lost 10%, you'd still be looking at over 2x the milage of a SVT! ;)
as for the SVT, most of it has already been covered.
in most cases, an aftermarket exhaust will actually lose hp over the stock exhaust.
A Tune, lower mount, short shifter, UDP and ORP do a lot for making the cars more lively than they come stock. TB's are nice but some people like them and some don't. you can run a single cam gear on the exhaust cam and many say the gains are minimal in power but improved drivability, i have yet to do one so i cannot verify this. but dyno tuning said cam gear would be highly suggested. there are also VCT delete kits that in the works that will allow you to run aftermarket Zetec cams.
the DSI metal clip is an area of issuue as are the intake manifold couplers, upgrades are available or you could build your own... or almost all of which can be had from CFM.
if you are serious about a TDI, get on http://www.vwvortex.com and start asking questions there about what can be done to the engine for more power with minimal drop in mileage... then again, 1000km/tank even if you lost 10%, you'd still be looking at over 2x the milage of a SVT! ;)