This is always the question when new brake pads are needed. Before you ask the question of what brake pads to buy for your car, you must first ask yourself what you want to do with your car? Is it only a daily driver that takes you from point A to point B? If this […]
I love doing some spirited driving. Even if I had a bad day driving home with my Golf 5 GTI just made the day so much better. The acceleration, the car pushing you into your seat, and the car that feels like it is running on rails through bends in the road. One day I […]
When I originally bought my Golf 5 GTI, I did not know of any major issues with these engines. I did in the earlier days come across a post of people warning about the Fuel pump cam followers failing. I didn’t really take note of it until one of my friends had to replace his. […]
The power delivery on my K04 Golf 5 GTI is really good. There is one thing I hate to do with this car, doing hard launches. It sounds like the car is going to rip apart. The only other car I knew of that had a similar issue was the 300kW+ 2.0 turbo Audi of […]
Till now I was running a number 3 nozzle with my water meth kit. This nozzle size is meant for a K03 turbo car. Till now I was only using the kit to help with the prevention of carbon buildup. There was a cooling effect on the boost but not as it should. The Snow […]
The Golf 5 GTI is a really nice platform to have as a project car. The amount of aftermarket upgrades is endless and you will lose yourself on the net finding what you want. I was always looking at what is the next step, what can I do to make the car run better and […]
Most manufacturers moved away from glass lenses on the headlight, as it saves weight and is cheaper to manufacture. The issue with the plastic lenses is, it fades over time. Some of them end up being yellow of color. This means just about no light comes through the lenses and at night you can see […]
At this stage of the fight, I was on the internet on a daily basis looking for what else I can do to my Golf 5 GTI. It is almost like an addiction, you get used to it and then want more. I came across something that Neuspeed makes. It is called “Power Pulley”. It […]
My third project car is well on its way, this is the mods I have so far: REVO STAGE 2 ECU TUNE Scorpion 3″ Non-Resonated Turbo Back Exhaust Go Fast Bits DV+ EBC Yellow stuff brake pads iABED 2.0 FSI to 2.0 TSI Fuel pump follower Conversion The next thing I would like to fit […]
When building a race car or just modifying an engine there is one thing that sometimes gets forgotten about. That is oil temp. When engines get designed for cars they have a certain oil temp in mind that they want to run. It is usually around the 100 Deg C mark, some times a bit […]