Well as the tittle says I finally got all these goodies installed. It was my initial plan to have everything on before the Nopi Nationals last month but thanks to DHL who lost half my exhaust in the mail I was unable to. I nstalled my Pop charger and Stillen G-tube myself and I had Sharif @ Forged Performance install my HKS exhaust, Fast Intentions resonated testpipes and Clutchmasters stg.3 clutch/flywheel (review coming later on) installed. Everything was installed perfect, the exhuast sounds awesome, very little if any rasp and of course there is zero drone on the interior which is why I love the HKS. The car seems to pull noticeably stronger on the high end, infact I've noticed the entire power curve has shifted more towards the top end and the driving experience has become far more visceral now. Sharif put the car on the dyno but was unable to get any baseline numbers prior to install. However after all the mods were installed my car made 251whp on his Dyno Dynamics dyno. According to Sharif, his dyno typically reads 20-25whp lower than a DynoJet so that puts my car at between 271-276whp with just the limited mods I have!!! Needless to say I was quite pleased to see these numbers, I just figured I would share with you guys. Next I was thinking about purchasing some Crawford headers, a UR Pulley,an MRev2 + 5/16th spacer and finally a Utec to bring it all together. Do you guys think I'll be able to reach 290whp?

 

Also, once I get my 3.9FD, what sort of times do you guys think my car will be capable of?

 

Dynos always just give a ballpark #... who cares what your WHP# is. (It's more important for F/I guys because poor tuning can result in HUGE number loss, good tuning = huge number gain) If you're getting tuned for optimal performance that's the best you can do. (Unless you get another map on the UTEC for race fuel)

Keep in mind with N/A there's so much variation with the numbers on a dyno. Intake temperature being one of the biggest...

As for times, go out to the drag strip and find out! I'll tell you one thing, those heavy volks won't help you (at least they didn't help me)

Once you get tuned and everything with your "future mods" I wouldn't be surprised to see you hitting 105mph (but ET is up to the driver)

 

Hmm..I have the HKS and the FI resonates test pipes and my exhaust is pretty raspy. Tell me you secret!!!

 

perhaps we have different deffinitions of whats raspy.....the reason why sound is such a subjective thing. When I think raspy I think E46 M3, my has very very little of that kind of rasp, none of which i can hear when im inside the car. So perhaps I should say my car has very very minimal rasp IMO.

 

Any video clips? I would like to hear more quality drive by videos of this combo...

 

Workin on that, i'll have to use my digital camera though...see if I can have one up before the end of week.

 

24v GTI Guy, I am getting the same setup at the end of the month. I am also getting the Crawford plenum and the Hotchkis Sways bar. I can't wait to see your video.

 

Also Sharif is doing my install too.