Tiguan IS38 and Big turbo upgrades

**tigger73** · 31-10-2019, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by badgeskins

I just became sad... lol. Also found out APR has no tune as of yet for the Gen3.B either.

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They have cracked the ECU at least and I know there's some custom tuners in Melbourne that have tuned this ECU (in a Polo GTI) however there's no reason that you can't do this in a Tiguan.

Only thing you have to be a little more careful over in the North American market is the torque limits of the 8 speed AISIN transmission that you get there. I think you may be still able to bolt on an IS38 turbo and tune it, however you would just need to do your homework first before launching into it. The 132TSI EA888 3B engine we get here is still mated to the same DQ500 DSG so we can go nuts

Still waiting for someone to put a stage 1 tune on one locally.

**badgeskins** · 01-11-2019, 12:28 AM

Originally Posted by tigger73

They have cracked the ECU at least and I know there's some custom tuners in Melbourne that have tuned this ECU (in a Polo GTI) however there's no reason that you can't do this in a Tiguan.

Only thing you have to be a little more careful over in the North American market is the torque limits of the 8 speed AISIN transmission that you get there. I think you may be still able to bolt on an IS38 turbo and tune it, however you would just need to do your homework first before launching into it. The 132TSI EA888 3B engine we get here is still mated to the same DQ500 DSG so we can go nuts

Still waiting for someone to put a stage 1 tune on one locally.

Ya im curious to see what The Gen3.B if capable of... What kinda numbers have been made with them with the tuners in the uk and aus?

The 8sp torque converter is another thing too.

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**Boosted_GP** · 01-11-2019, 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Melbourne_Tiggy

Yeap, we are lucky in Australia to get the EA888 gen 3 - 2 litre TSI engine producing 162 kw and 350 nm. This is the engine that is shared with the golf gti. In terms of gear box we get the 7 speed DSG DQ500 MQB that is also used in the AUDI RS3 and TTRS. Launch control is standard and puts a smile on your face every time. A fantastic platform for modification.

Exactly the same as South Africa

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**REXman** · 03-11-2019, 02:35 PM

Got my gearbox replaced. Thank F I waited (more like got painfully delayed by the potential tuner) before I proceeded.

Now my gearbox is smooth as hell.. VW did good.

I have the turbo and exhaust in my bedroom just waiting.. not sure how I should wait.. maybe 1000kms?

APR can't tune my car so I'm going with a custom tune from Tune House.. any good bad reviews?

**tigger73** · 03-11-2019, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by REXman

Got my gearbox replaced. Thank F I waited (more like got painfully delayed by the potential tuner) before I proceeded.

Now my gearbox is smooth as hell.. VW did good.

I have the turbo and exhaust in my bedroom just waiting.. not sure how I should wait.. maybe 1000kms?

APR can't tune my car so I'm going with a custom tune from Tune House.. any good bad reviews?

What happened to your gearbox??? Symptoms?

How many km on your car?

Haven’t heard about TuneHouse doing VW before but I see that they are an APR reseller. Do they custom tune a lot of Euros?

I can’t make any comment about their work specifically but my experience with JDM tuners having a go at custom tuning Euro cars is that it doesn’t go all that well. I’d be taking it to a VW/Audi specialist that can do custom tuning like Etuners/PacorTech in Sydney.

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**Melbourne_Tiggy** · 07-11-2019, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by REXman

Got my gearbox replaced. Thank F I waited (more like got painfully delayed by the potential tuner) before I proceeded.

Now my gearbox is smooth as hell.. VW did good.

I have the turbo and exhaust in my bedroom just waiting.. not sure how I should wait.. maybe 1000kms?

APR can't tune my car so I'm going with a custom tune from Tune House.. any good bad reviews?

Also interested to know what went wrong with your gearbox..???

I’m surprised APR can’t tune your car, which shop did you go to? German Performance Garage are the master dealers for APR in NSW, they might be able to help.

**REXman** · 08-11-2019, 01:02 AM

I went to a guy Strathfield. He does euros and resells Apr. He couldn't get it to work. He's supposed to do a lot of euros and he had golf Rs there being worked on. Couldn't do anything with my car. They said to keep calling back then after about 6 weeks of chasing I gave up. Parso was going to tune. He's a great bloke normally but he didn't follow me up once after calling him once a week for a couple of months. Got too hard. So going with tune house. They knew what was required with the install straight up over the phone.