I decided to buy 2000 gti to save a little extra money compared to a 20003 model and use the saved funds for some mods.

I have $2000 left over to play with.

I'm hoping to get a bit of extra ooomph and by looking around at prices, it costs so much more to modify a golf than it did my 180SX.

(For example with my 180, my FMIC, full exhaust, dump pipe, high flow cat, boost controller, POD and a service cost $1800 installed)

Now for the record I'm loving the GTI so much more than the 180 - all around, other than straight line speed it's better in every way than the 180SX.

But as it is stock, I'm wondering what the best use of $2000 would be and where in Sydney I should get the work done. I'm hoping to have it all done by the time of the GTG on the 11th.

It seems that $2000 would get a chip installed and maybe a 2.5" dump pipe also? Or dump and a tip?

And sorry for the newbiness, but does the chip really make that much difference to justify the cost?

And if a GTI had chip and exhaust, does anyone have any ideas how this would rate as a 0-100 time? Maybe around high 6 seconds? Low 7s?

So for a stock GTI with $2000 - what would you do?