Increasing R36 Performance

[Macka]

Just wondering whether anybody knows of anyone that has already started to come up with some performance upgrades for the R36? I haven't even picked mine up yet but l know l would love to get a bit more out of this thing!!!

Macka

[macdaddy]

I am pretty close ot ordering one and would also love ot know what is out there in the way of performance mods

[h100vw]

I would be surprised if all the usual suspects aren't working on a flash upgrade for the R36 already. There might even be a flash available now.

Gavin

[Macka]

I have checked a few in the past month and it appears that there are no upgrades at present.

[h100vw]

I have checked a few in the past month and it appears that there are no upgrades at present.

I have emailed C-C to ask the question....... Watch this space.

Gavin

[Spyda]

TAKE THE ENGINE OUT AND PUT IT IN A MK2



Thats how you increase performance you rich bastards lol.

[macdaddy]

I was thinking th eguys at goapr would have something....mods like that to the R32....however they dont at this stage.

[Guy_H]

It certainly has been run on a dyno in both Germany & the UK.

There has so far been little to no worthwhile gains to be had. And I think this is why there is pretty much no products on the market!

You must remember on these things that they are now FSI, and they really struggle for available fuel from the cam driven 130 bar fuel pumps (at certain RPM ranges). Hopefully APR will in the future work on their High Pressure fuel pumps & apply them to the normally aspirated engines! (RS4, R8 all use the same technology).

You can see what we have had to do on the same pump on the turbo cars here: http://www.goapr.com.au/products/fsi_fuel_pump.html

[Treza360]

I knew you couldn't get that much out of the NA cars but I didn't realise it's that difficult with the FSI engines. So there's still nothing really available either for the R8 or RS4s either?
At the end of the day though, they're all pretty awesome engines/cars anyway so whilst minor gains are always nice, it's not the end of the world if you can't get that much.
Cheers,
Trent

[3Putt]

Guy H,

What about the exhaust? Are there any gains to be had there?

On the 3.2V6, i've been told there is a fairly poorly designed 'bottleneck' at the T-junction where the exhaust splits into 2 for the twin rear pipes. Any truth to that?

And there's the old gem of taking out the factory cats and replacing them with the proverbial empty paint tin with a piece of steel wool floating around in it!

Is there anyone out there with an aftermarket exhaust (3inch all the way and barely legal cats)?