This is how my dream project car died! I have been working at my current company for about 4 years now. The commute to and from work each day as about an hour each way. The Golf 5 GTI has been building up kilometers on the clock fast. The car has gone over 240 000 […]
I haven’t done a lot of km on the BFI single mass flywheel and clutch kit on my 2006 Golf 5 GTI. I have driven it like this as long as I could but the flywheel needs to go! From a performance standpoint, this was a great clutch. Because the single-mass flywheel and clutch setup […]
I have always been a big fan of big brakes on performance cars. The bigger the discs and calipers are the better. It just makes the car look faster. When you get to the point that your car is making a lot more power than the standard form it is always a good idea to […]
There is one thing that has always been a good idea to have on a turbo car and that is a boost gauge. On production cars, it is not needed as they ECU looks after the engine. As soon as you fitted a bigger turbo and run more boost then you need to be able […]
So I decided to play a bit with my REVO setting on my Golf 5 GTI. I could set the timing setting a bit more aggressive or up the boost setting by one point. Then change the water meth injection setting a bit to bring the knock count down a bit if there was any. […]
My Golf 5 GTI has become a beast. It was making 260kW and in the region of 450 to 460Nm of torque. The mileage on the car was on the higher side and the car was still running on its original clutch. Till now I haven’t had any clutch issues. One Sunday I took the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]