APR ECU Upgrade MK6 Golf - Customer perspective

[Guy_H]

DSG ~ 5-00 seconds flat. about 5.5 for the manual. Hooking them up is the trick.

[Guy_H]

You can hear the wheelspin on this launch....

[Converted]

DSG ~ 5-00 seconds flat. about 5.5 for the manual. Hooking them up is the trick.

Not bad at all for a FWD, considering Fab_R just recently did a 4.37 in his R.

[MurphyTheElf]

Guys, what are the typical 0-100 km/h times that people are seeing on mk6 GTi with APR Stage 1 ?

DSG ~ 5-00 seconds flat. about 5.5 for the manual. Hooking them up is the trick.

5 seconds flat for a stock DSG GTI with only an APR stage 1 tune? So it improves the stated stock launch by almost 2 seconds??

[Guy_H]

5 seconds flat for a stock DSG GTI with only an APR stage 1 tune? So it improves the stated stock launch by almost 2 seconds??

yep, but as above, negating the wheelspin is the trick. Running about 18psi in the tyres helps.

[scoobyrex]

yep, but as above, negating the wheelspin is the trick. Running about 18psi in the tyres helps.

Guy, is that a typo? 18psi in the tyres? I would have thought 38psi...

[Guy_H]

Less wheel spin, not more

[AdamD]

DSG ~ 5-00 seconds flat. about 5.5 for the manual. Hooking them up is the trick.

Whoa.

The figures I've heard bandied about are that a stock DSG will do somewhere between 6.5 and 6.9 (I've not seen any magazine test faster than 6.5), and the stage 1 improves on this by approximately half a second. I'd be hugely impressed if a stage 1 could manage a sub-6, let alone a low 5.

Guy - how much of this, in your opinion, is down to super-low tyre pressures? What's a realistic time in your experience for a DSG car running standard pressure (38psi) 18s?

(Just a point of comparison - a Mazda3 MPS manual tends only to manage a low-mid 6 time with very similar power, torque and power/weight figures to a stage 1 GTI.)

[Guy_H]

Hey Adam,

I don't have a DSG, but you can see that video above, that's 5.5 seconds with wheelspin, Stage 1 only.

On my MKV with a manual transmission, to achieve a 12 second 1/4 mile on street tyres, we ended up with 18psi in them - our MPH was still exactly the same, but our 60 foot time came down by a second.

As I mentioned - negate the wheelspin & you can get great times, one way to do this is to lower the pressures. Maybe some other DSG owners can chime in?

[Corey_R]

Anyone who thinks that the APR Stage 1 ECU only reduces the acceleration by about half a second seriously needs to go to their local APR dealership and get the TRIAL ECU installed NOW NOW NOW!!!. Lol, half a second....

Sub six second times are so simple my post-retirement age mother could do that. The video that was posted on the previous page just shows how easy it is.

5 seconds flat would be hard. But as Guy_H said, you can always drop your tyre pressures to low levels if 0 to 100 is what you're aiming for. There is always going to be a compromise between corning performance and straight line performance when you're aiming for the ultimate in one disipline though.