When I bought my gti I knew I wanted to do things to make it mine, different.
I generally enjoy tinkering and I have a problem with leaving anything as is.
Then came the possibility to do autocross. And while I'm not great, I'm getting better and that's fine. Ultimately I don't want or even care to be mega competitive. The added pressure or self-expectation will definitely kill my joy for doing autocross.
I just want to do fun things with my car.
In the end I would love to do things like get a DP, tune, suspension, carbon fenders, hood, maybe a wrap, a scroth harness ( I'm tall but I only weigh 160 and I slide around ALOT since I'm not really filling the seat).
Currently I'm in GS, but I think something like a Tune or suspension might be next on the horizon. This is my DD and we do travel but any long trips we rent a car for. I can tolerate some difference in ride, the roads in central ohio aren't awesome, but they aren't too terrible anymore( not like they were 10 years ago, and I don't live in the county anymore). Tbh at 72k miles the stock suspension isn't what she used to be and likely needs replaced/upgraded anyways.
Originally I was looking at the B16s but apparently that's mostly a street setup.
I see a number of folks have a RedShift kit, but what are other go-to kits for auto-x and DD? Ideally I would be keeping it around $1500~ but if there's solid reason to go one way or another I would be interested to hear it.
I'm not trying to slam it. I just want something more geared towards AX that will also be okay for DD.
I do not yet have a fsb or rsb. The only autox mod I have so far is 200tw tires on a second set of wheels.
I generally enjoy tinkering and I have a problem with leaving anything as is.
Then came the possibility to do autocross. And while I'm not great, I'm getting better and that's fine. Ultimately I don't want or even care to be mega competitive. The added pressure or self-expectation will definitely kill my joy for doing autocross.
I just want to do fun things with my car.
In the end I would love to do things like get a DP, tune, suspension, carbon fenders, hood, maybe a wrap, a scroth harness ( I'm tall but I only weigh 160 and I slide around ALOT since I'm not really filling the seat).
Currently I'm in GS, but I think something like a Tune or suspension might be next on the horizon. This is my DD and we do travel but any long trips we rent a car for. I can tolerate some difference in ride, the roads in central ohio aren't awesome, but they aren't too terrible anymore( not like they were 10 years ago, and I don't live in the county anymore). Tbh at 72k miles the stock suspension isn't what she used to be and likely needs replaced/upgraded anyways.
Originally I was looking at the B16s but apparently that's mostly a street setup.
I see a number of folks have a RedShift kit, but what are other go-to kits for auto-x and DD? Ideally I would be keeping it around $1500~ but if there's solid reason to go one way or another I would be interested to hear it.
I'm not trying to slam it. I just want something more geared towards AX that will also be okay for DD.
I do not yet have a fsb or rsb. The only autox mod I have so far is 200tw tires on a second set of wheels.
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