This is all about my Golf 5 GTI. This was a great project car and I loved it. Here I talk about everything I did to this car. Every upgrade I did and what is worth the money and what is a waste. I also talk about the issues I had and how I fixed them and also how I lost the beautiful beast.
The Golf has been a dream to drive. If you start to do mods on a car it almost becomes like an addiction. It is not about showing off in front of friends that drive it. The extra power that is at your disposal is the drive behind it. In this case, it wasn’t all […]
I have been enjoying my Golf 5 GTI but suddenly the car started feeling weak. It was almost like the car didn’t boost. You could hear the turbo is doing something but the power wasn’t there. I did not get any warning lights that there is something wrong. Am I just used to the car […]
Everyone that know me, knows that when I start to play with my cars I can’t stop. It is like a drug to me. I had the Superchips Stage 2 software on my Golf 5 GTI. The software states it is a requirement to run a aftermarket intake. The intakes go under many names, dome […]
After doing so reading up about the TFSI engines it became clear that the cars running these engines has a lot of potentials. I wanted to do something else on the car but didn’t know what. Next thing I got a call from a friend saying that he had fitted a downpipe on his Golf […]
Till now I have only been exposed to Standalone of aftermarket Engine management. They are perfect for race car builds or if you fit another engine in your car and need to control it in some way. I know you could send you ECU in to get it reflashed with racing maps for higher octane […]
In 2010, I was still driving my 1997 Polo Classic that I have had forever. The car had some issues from time to time. This is what happens if you push parts way past what they are designed for. I was thinking of getting myself a proper day to day car, and then the Polo […]