My First Car '02 GTI 1.8T

[spuck00]

I just got my first car, '02 GTI 1.8T with tiptronic. I was planning on doing a lot of mods, but dont know too much about them. I wanted to keep it looking (and sounding) stock. I was wondering what mods to do, and more importand what order to do them in. Any advice would help alot, thanks.

[Racing Rice]

Do stuff like exhaust and/or suspension and some wheels are always a decent place to start.

[changedagame108]

Congrats on getting the new car! I'm planning to get my 02 GTI 1.8T with tiptronic next month. You got any pics?

[JUS_GT_EYEZ]

if you did not get the sport suspension... do suspension, if you did, chip

[mhosken2001]

First of all you should get a chip- 46+ hp's(if you have the stock 150hp motor if you have the 180 hp then the addition is only 16hps or so), then intake, exhausts(I've looked into these they don't change the sound of the car that much). Then you should look into the Neuspeed turbo inlet & downpipes and a diverter valve from AWE Tunings website(made by Bailey Motorsports). All of these will get you to about 235 to 240 hp. If you want more then you should upgrade from the stock K03 to the larger K04 turbo charger available from Neuspeed and some other places. As far as cost goes the things that get you to 240 hp all together cost around $2000, but a new turbo can run from $2000-$3000.

[vwturbostar]

Dont put any chip on your. Wait untill you have at least 20K miles then you can do that stuff , cause it's bad for your engine and exaust are you shure you wanna mess with it cause you have pretty good waranty
have fun

[Deakins]

Be sure to get a GIAC Tiptronic chip.
And if you have to get a "intake", get the turn2 one, It actually works.

[QuickSilverEF9]

Might as well just go all show and audio on your car.
Tiptronic.......... Are you a girl?

[Deakins]

No need for personal attacks.

[QuickSilverEF9]

It was not an attack, just merely a statement of my opinion. However in all reality putting $250 into a modifications that adds very meager performance and is more for the look and sound under the hood than anything is a waste of money. No matter how well an intake is engineered the actual performance numbers will all be around the same low gains. Of course if the whole intake system was modified with an intake with a bigger diameter, a bored out throttle body, a high flow intake manifold, and some high lift cams, the numbers will derastically increase. While I do disagree with your comment about the intake I do agree that GIAC is really the only chip to get next to a complete engine managment system. An amazing setup on the 1.8T would be a front mount intercooler, a higher flowing down pipe, the GIAC chip, any resputable exhaust, 268 degree lift cams, a bored out throttle body, high performance gaskets, a t4 turbo, aluminum flywheel, and better flowing fuel fuel system.

[Deakins]

How's calling someone a girl not a personal attack?
Anyway, compared to spending $200 on a evo, injen, atp or aem "intake" that doesn't work, I don't consider it to be a waste of money.

[mimi03gti]

My '03 GTI 1.8T is my first VW. When I hit 1000 miles on my car, I got chipped and added improvements as I went along. You can see them in my signature below. My car looks stock and the Milltek cat back is very quiet like stock. Good Luck!

[QuickSilverEF9]

Where is your sense of humor? I did not blatantly say, Tiptronic you must be a girl.... I was asking. You must be extremely uptight to take something so personally that wasn't even directed towards you.

[D[X]P]

what do chips do? where do u insert them?

y would they be bad??

[mimi03gti]

Chips upgrade the computer to increase the boost, remap the fuel, etc....All to improve the cars performance. In the 1.8T, the computer has to be taken out and the chip inserted before putting it back in. When I purchased the Chip, I was given instructions on how to remove the computer and sent it out to be upgraded. There is such a big increase in power that you feel immediately.