Wow, where do I start. Some of you know me from Instagram, others through local channels the rest don't know me from Adam, but here goes.
A little backstory on me. I have always been into cars. My first was a 91 accord 2 door. That car lasted all of 5 mins before I wanted something better. I happen to get a deal on a Buick regal and believe it or not, there was an aftermarket for it. The first one I had was NA, and I'm pretty sure I had the NA world record for a couple of months before an intake runner insert came out that shattered it. Oh well.
After that I wanted more, the trans started slipping so I traded it and got an SC model. That's when I got into tuning. A program very similar to eurodyne called DHP was out at the time which I believe was developed by Zoomer at ZZP and some other founders who went on to become the creators of HP tuners. I did a fair amount of tuning for the 3800 community until I got rid of the car in 2007. I had 3 SC regals after that. The last was FBO with a 75 shot and a built trans. It trapped 120. I really miss those cars.
Fast forward a Malibu SS and a Camaro SS then came the GTI
This was my first endeavor into German cars. I bought my 17 GTI PP/LP on July 3rd 2017.
From there I started an Instagram, that did really well, but became a job of answering 50-100 dms a day, plus people trying to hack the account and spam made it not fun anymore. Either way it was fun, mildly lucrative and I made some really great and helpful friends.
The current mods are as follows:
Autotech intake
Autotech HPFP
Baun Performance FMIC
Rutheniums
IS20 soon to be Vortex Std
RS3 LPFP
Custom Borla Cat back
Ultimate Racing catted DP
Neuspeed RSE06
Yokohoma Apex tires
Solowerks coils
Eurosport STB
Maestro tune on E85
Eurodyne DSG tune
There are other little things but they are just preference and have no real performance increase or decrease.
I've done oil changes every 5k, regapped plugs every 5k and replaced placed every 10k since 7k miles. I've bounced around different oils between LM, Castrol and Motul. DSG fluid was replaced at 41k with Motul and at 62k with OEM.
Things that have broken or gone wrong with the car are as follows:
Bent stock wheel 2 weeks into ownership. Thermostat housing
Carbon cleaning (preventative)
Dual mass flywheel
Rear main seal ( preventative)
N80 valve
Currently chasing a weird chatter when the car is in park and idle, but goes away with revs or putting it in D or R. Doesn't affect performance. I'm guessing it's the clutches, but I'll drive it till it blows.
When I bought the car I said I wouldn't get into tuning, but I wanted control of my tune, so I bought a jb4. After I took it as far as I could, I looked into eurodyne and realized it's pretty much a mirror image of DHP, so I was hooked again. Though the ECU on a 90's GM car has like 90 measuring blocks and this GTI has like 50,000. The premise was still the same.. air, fuel and timing make power. KR and too much tq kill motors and transmissions.
This forum has a wealth of knowledge and while Cobb has become the dominant force in tuning for most people, I'm from the generation when all Cobb did was blow up Subarus.
Nothing against them, I just have always preferred to do it myself.
I'll update as new mods happen. Thanks for reading!
A little backstory on me. I have always been into cars. My first was a 91 accord 2 door. That car lasted all of 5 mins before I wanted something better. I happen to get a deal on a Buick regal and believe it or not, there was an aftermarket for it. The first one I had was NA, and I'm pretty sure I had the NA world record for a couple of months before an intake runner insert came out that shattered it. Oh well.
After that I wanted more, the trans started slipping so I traded it and got an SC model. That's when I got into tuning. A program very similar to eurodyne called DHP was out at the time which I believe was developed by Zoomer at ZZP and some other founders who went on to become the creators of HP tuners. I did a fair amount of tuning for the 3800 community until I got rid of the car in 2007. I had 3 SC regals after that. The last was FBO with a 75 shot and a built trans. It trapped 120. I really miss those cars.
Fast forward a Malibu SS and a Camaro SS then came the GTI
This was my first endeavor into German cars. I bought my 17 GTI PP/LP on July 3rd 2017.
From there I started an Instagram, that did really well, but became a job of answering 50-100 dms a day, plus people trying to hack the account and spam made it not fun anymore. Either way it was fun, mildly lucrative and I made some really great and helpful friends.
The current mods are as follows:
Autotech intake
Autotech HPFP
Baun Performance FMIC
Rutheniums
IS20 soon to be Vortex Std
RS3 LPFP
Custom Borla Cat back
Ultimate Racing catted DP
Neuspeed RSE06
Yokohoma Apex tires
Solowerks coils
Eurosport STB
Maestro tune on E85
Eurodyne DSG tune
There are other little things but they are just preference and have no real performance increase or decrease.
I've done oil changes every 5k, regapped plugs every 5k and replaced placed every 10k since 7k miles. I've bounced around different oils between LM, Castrol and Motul. DSG fluid was replaced at 41k with Motul and at 62k with OEM.
Things that have broken or gone wrong with the car are as follows:
Bent stock wheel 2 weeks into ownership. Thermostat housing
Carbon cleaning (preventative)
Dual mass flywheel
Rear main seal ( preventative)
N80 valve
Currently chasing a weird chatter when the car is in park and idle, but goes away with revs or putting it in D or R. Doesn't affect performance. I'm guessing it's the clutches, but I'll drive it till it blows.
When I bought the car I said I wouldn't get into tuning, but I wanted control of my tune, so I bought a jb4. After I took it as far as I could, I looked into eurodyne and realized it's pretty much a mirror image of DHP, so I was hooked again. Though the ECU on a 90's GM car has like 90 measuring blocks and this GTI has like 50,000. The premise was still the same.. air, fuel and timing make power. KR and too much tq kill motors and transmissions.
This forum has a wealth of knowledge and while Cobb has become the dominant force in tuning for most people, I'm from the generation when all Cobb did was blow up Subarus.
Nothing against them, I just have always preferred to do it myself.I'll update as new mods happen. Thanks for reading!
