19birel
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Pittsburgh
- Car(s)
- MK7.5 - MK4 - B8.5
EDIT: I will be updating this first post with the car's most current mod list
Exterior
- ECS Tuning Street shield
-Sequential mirror turn signals
-Clear bra on headlights, front bumper, partial hood, partial fenders
-Yellow tinted fog lights
-Xpel nanoceramic 30% tint
-Color matched eyelids
Interior
- WCT Performance throttle pedal spacer
-Rennline throttle pedal & pedal extension
-OEM GTI Fest 2024 carpet mats (brought over from the show in Germany) & GTI Monster Mats (winter setup)
-Bracketeer Fire Extinguisher mount w/Kidde extinguisher
-OPT7 LED light strips w/bluetooth app controller
-HD clutch pedal stop
- Virtual Cockpit Retrofit (Aliexpress version)
-Rennstall Type 2M shiftknob
Suspension
- Eibach Pro Springs
-Koni Special Active Dampers
-034 Motorsport Camster plates
-ECS Tuning rear strut mounts
Drivetrain Performance
- Burger Motorsports Pedal Tuner
-APR DTR6054 turbo
-COBB Gesi downpipe
- G Plus twintercooler
-APR spark plugs (2 steps colder than stock)
-Custom flavor town
tune by me (It's not actually that spicy lol)
-Clutch pedal spring delete
-ECS Tuning Bleeder Block
-034 Motorsport dogbone insert
-Porsche Macan engine cover
-BMC Drop-in filter
-Snow Guard deleted in OEM airbox
-Modified OEM airbox (big hole for boosty boi noises)
-Ported OEM airscoop mod
Braking
-EBC Bluestuff pads (front) & Yellowstuff pads (rear)
-Endless RF650 fluid
-OEM Audi RS3 brake ducts
-COBB ABS module heatshield
Wheels/Tyres
-Apex Race Parts SM-10 wheels 17x8.5 in Graphite
-Toyo Proxes Sport 245/40/17
*Summer/Track setup
-Stock 18" Pretorias in Black
-Bridgestone Potenza S001 rft 225/40/18
* "Winter"/Wet Track setup
Hello all! Excited to join you guys with my Mk7.5 build! The past couple months I have been absorbing as much as I can from various threads learning about mod potential of these cars and now I finally have one to sink my teeth into! First a little backstory...
For a while now I have wanted something fast that I could also use occasionally on track. The fastest car I have ever owned is my current Stage 2+ B8.5 Audi A4, and while it's pretty quick for what it is, it's just that. It's a really great example of how a car can be quick and not fast. For daily driving it's fantastic and gives the Subaru crowd a run for it's money, but I'd like to own at least one car that really scoots. I also want to get out to the track more often and the Audi just isn't suited to that.
The Mk7 has always impressed me with how much power could be extracted from it even with a stock motor and between my dad's former '16 GTI S and my sister's current '17 Golf S I was also impressed by how nice of a car they are in general. I figured not only could this be a fun toy, but something of a secondary daily because it's more practical than my Audi, and a really nice place to be.
Where does the budget bit come in? Well, rather than search local dealerships for the right car I hit the likes of IAAI and Copart for a crash victim ripe for resurrection. My A4 was salvage rebuild I did in college, and I helped my dad rebuild both his GTI and my sister's Golf (along with a bunch of other cars) so this sort of project isn't new to me, especially in the context of MK7s. I got immensely lucky though and found a White Silver Metallic 2021 GTI SE 6MT with just 18k miles in Tampa with undercarriage damage. No this car was not in the flood (was totaled a month beforehand), and miraculously the auction lot escaped Ian's path. Here is how she looked coming off the truck...
And the damage...
Core support and front lip are knackered
This is the worst of it
Drove it around the block, and it drives straight with no warning lights!
Basically it just need some patching on the floor and a bunch of new plastic bits to be road ready again so the rebuild process should be pretty easy.
The other day I mended the core support, only the bottom bit where the under tray screw into was damaged so I just made a bracket and now it's probably stronger than it was before.
I also pounded a dent out of the passenger footwell which I forgot to document. Currently waiting on parts to show up and then more progress will insue!
So what's the game plan?
Well of course I need to get it road legal again, but after that I'm going to eventually go hybrid turbo (I'll go stage 2 as an inbetween). My goal is over 400whp, and at least low 9s 60-130. I'll be doing some handling mods for the aforementioned planned track use and some non-performance related stuff as well but the main goal is power haha. Thanks for making it this far and stay tuned for more!
Exterior
- ECS Tuning Street shield
-Sequential mirror turn signals
-Clear bra on headlights, front bumper, partial hood, partial fenders
-Yellow tinted fog lights
-Xpel nanoceramic 30% tint
-Color matched eyelids
Interior
- WCT Performance throttle pedal spacer
-Rennline throttle pedal & pedal extension
-OEM GTI Fest 2024 carpet mats (brought over from the show in Germany) & GTI Monster Mats (winter setup)
-Bracketeer Fire Extinguisher mount w/Kidde extinguisher
-OPT7 LED light strips w/bluetooth app controller
-HD clutch pedal stop
- Virtual Cockpit Retrofit (Aliexpress version)
-Rennstall Type 2M shiftknob
Suspension
- Eibach Pro Springs
-Koni Special Active Dampers
-034 Motorsport Camster plates
-ECS Tuning rear strut mounts
Drivetrain Performance
- Burger Motorsports Pedal Tuner
-APR DTR6054 turbo
-COBB Gesi downpipe
- G Plus twintercooler
-APR spark plugs (2 steps colder than stock)
-Custom flavor town
![Fire :fire: 🔥](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f525.png)
-Clutch pedal spring delete
-ECS Tuning Bleeder Block
-034 Motorsport dogbone insert
-Porsche Macan engine cover
-BMC Drop-in filter
-Snow Guard deleted in OEM airbox
-Modified OEM airbox (big hole for boosty boi noises)
-Ported OEM airscoop mod
Braking
-EBC Bluestuff pads (front) & Yellowstuff pads (rear)
-Endless RF650 fluid
-OEM Audi RS3 brake ducts
-COBB ABS module heatshield
Wheels/Tyres
-Apex Race Parts SM-10 wheels 17x8.5 in Graphite
-Toyo Proxes Sport 245/40/17
*Summer/Track setup
-Stock 18" Pretorias in Black
-Bridgestone Potenza S001 rft 225/40/18
* "Winter"/Wet Track setup
Hello all! Excited to join you guys with my Mk7.5 build! The past couple months I have been absorbing as much as I can from various threads learning about mod potential of these cars and now I finally have one to sink my teeth into! First a little backstory...
For a while now I have wanted something fast that I could also use occasionally on track. The fastest car I have ever owned is my current Stage 2+ B8.5 Audi A4, and while it's pretty quick for what it is, it's just that. It's a really great example of how a car can be quick and not fast. For daily driving it's fantastic and gives the Subaru crowd a run for it's money, but I'd like to own at least one car that really scoots. I also want to get out to the track more often and the Audi just isn't suited to that.
The Mk7 has always impressed me with how much power could be extracted from it even with a stock motor and between my dad's former '16 GTI S and my sister's current '17 Golf S I was also impressed by how nice of a car they are in general. I figured not only could this be a fun toy, but something of a secondary daily because it's more practical than my Audi, and a really nice place to be.
Where does the budget bit come in? Well, rather than search local dealerships for the right car I hit the likes of IAAI and Copart for a crash victim ripe for resurrection. My A4 was salvage rebuild I did in college, and I helped my dad rebuild both his GTI and my sister's Golf (along with a bunch of other cars) so this sort of project isn't new to me, especially in the context of MK7s. I got immensely lucky though and found a White Silver Metallic 2021 GTI SE 6MT with just 18k miles in Tampa with undercarriage damage. No this car was not in the flood (was totaled a month beforehand), and miraculously the auction lot escaped Ian's path. Here is how she looked coming off the truck...
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And the damage...
Core support and front lip are knackered
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This is the worst of it
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Drove it around the block, and it drives straight with no warning lights!
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Basically it just need some patching on the floor and a bunch of new plastic bits to be road ready again so the rebuild process should be pretty easy.
The other day I mended the core support, only the bottom bit where the under tray screw into was damaged so I just made a bracket and now it's probably stronger than it was before.
![](/forums/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Flive.staticflickr.com%2F65535%2F52440105650_3d84eae931_z.jpg&hash=45240a2d1066978242d53e6bed1f3a00)
I also pounded a dent out of the passenger footwell which I forgot to document. Currently waiting on parts to show up and then more progress will insue!
So what's the game plan?
Well of course I need to get it road legal again, but after that I'm going to eventually go hybrid turbo (I'll go stage 2 as an inbetween). My goal is over 400whp, and at least low 9s 60-130. I'll be doing some handling mods for the aforementioned planned track use and some non-performance related stuff as well but the main goal is power haha. Thanks for making it this far and stay tuned for more!
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