My thoughts after 3 days with the GTI

[Sharkie]

APR GTI Golf will do 80-120km/h in about 3.4s in 3rd .... only Falcon that comes close is the 4.0Ts ... FPV F6 will do it in 2.7s ..... XR6T in 3.1s .... XR8 takes over 4s ....

Polo GTI with a chip only will do it in 3.5s ....

Once you go beyond Stg 1 in both the Golf & Polo it will crack 3s ..... makes even a F6 Falcon sweat .....

The big strenght of both the VW GTIs are in the overtaking stakes once chipped .... light weight, lots of torque and no traction issues once moving means its awesomely quick in the ingear runs .... I have many V8 scalps to show as proof ...

So chip the GTI and never (almost anyway) worry about not being able to overtake when you need to ....

[OilBurna]

don't take on a modified BF / FG very easy to get 400kw at the wheels even though they are heavy.

[JohnA]

its not all about straight line power peoples

[Corey_R]

With all due respects Beaker, you can't really compare a v6 putting out 195kw and with 391Nm of torque with a 2lt, 4cyc (albeit with turbo and supercharged) that's got 155Kw and 280Nm.

Why not? My Golf GTI had 205kw and 435NM, so was more powerful than those figures you quoted. On top of that, it weighed 500kg less than the average Falcon and Commodore!

[Beaker]

its not all about straight line power peoples

Never a truer phrase written, but as someone that does a heap of country road driving, being able to safely overtake is very important to me, and unfortunately you do get a whole heap of people who are somehow offended at being overtaken and speed up.


And yeah Sharkie its a slightly warmed over BF Turbo so BF F6 territory ~ 270KW


Coreying - 205KW in a Golf would be sweet! Maybe I'll have to look at the stage II stuff

[triode12]

Never a truer phrase written, but as someone that does a heap of country road driving, being able to safely overtake is very important to me, and unfortunately you do get a whole heap of people who are somehow offended at being overtaken and speed up.


And yeah Sharkie its a slightly warmed over BF Turbo so BF F6 territory ~ 270KW


Coreying - 205KW in a Golf would be sweet! Maybe I'll have to look at the stage II stuff

Dump that MKVI GTI and put in an order for the Golf R. Much better car and will give you the performance you are looking for with just a Stage 1 tune.

[Zaul]

Ah, but in that case Coreying you are practically comparing like for like in terms of power output ..205 to 195.

While there was no way of knowing whether or not the golf he passed was modded, to me there's no point in comparisons between a V6 and a 4, as in the majority of cases the 6 will always be quicker. It's like talking about a Porsche having better acceleration than a Commodore..again, in most cases, unless it's been worked, it always will be.

[Beaker]

Dump that MKVI GTI and put in an order for the Golf R. Much better car and will give you the performance you are looking for with just a Stage 1 tune.

I struggled with that decision believe me, but the Golf R isn't due for a while yet and the current lease expires soon, and the R32 is a) getting on a bit and b) a thirsty little bugger (like the Falcon).

[triode12]

I struggled with that decision believe me, but the Golf R isn't due for a while yet and the current lease expires soon, and the R32 is a) getting on a bit and b) a thirsty little bugger (like the Falcon).

June/July isn't that far away and trust me, the R is much better(more power, grip and MkV drive experience better). I've tried both (the R only two Saturdays ago) - the R blows the GTI away - no contest.

[Brendan_A]

The question was pretty conclusivley answered on the weekend. I was behind a GTI doing about 5km/h below the speedlimit (probably believed the speedo ), we arrived at an overtaking lane, so I pulled out to overtake, he didn't like that apparently and put his foot down (not going to go on about that sort of behaviour other then ), going by how it jumped it (or he) went back a couple of gears. Back to third in the Falcon and it wasn't even a contest, it just walked away from the GTI, fortunatly he realised it was pointless and gave up, before the speeds got silly.

APR is now a definate on my list of stuff to do.

I think you should just go buy another Falcon if your that worried. How can you compare a turbo 6 to a stock turbo 4??