Looking at my silver vRS, its completely standard apart from the stereo I'm building, and the previous owner took off the OCTAVIA badge on the rear (but left the vRS one on).

Seeing as I'm tight, I like doing things cheap, so what sort of things have you done to yours on a budget? Lets say, under £50 per mod. What mods are easy on the wallet, but make a big difference to the car?

I'd like to narrow the plates and paint the front bumper recess behind the plates in black, along with the front lower grille bars black too. But apart from that, my mind is blank!

cupra splitter

pastyboys badges

debadging

recirc dump valve (cheap one from ebay)

stickers (subtle and tasteful of course!)

Tint some of the lights?

Fit some uprated bulbs here and there?

Vinyl wrap some of the interior trim components?

Hunt for a 2nd hand cold air intake?

Drill the wheel arch liner behind the intercooler to improve airflow behind it,

3in cold air feed from airbox down to behind front bumper grill and drill fins out in n/s grill,

Take the vrs badge off the back aswell as i thing it looks daft without the octy badge there or swop it for newer vrs badge,

De chrome the front grill and paint it black,

Could paint the inside of the headlights black aswell but there a complete pig to split open so be warned,

Stole the idea from another member but green reg plate lighting and interior bulbs make a lot of difference.

Silvertec indicator bulbs(gets rid of the orange colour bulbs) ,Audi s3 lower chassis brace,Leon cupra front splitter.

Nowt of the above, for the best mod save up and get a rear anti roll bar, it's totally worth the money

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Silver indicator bulbs, new number plates, led number plate lights and interior lights and side lights. new wheel centre badges and wheel nut caps ( if yours are in poor shape or missing). I done this to mine and made it look alot cleaner.

Agree, dont bother spending the stuff on pointless splitters and cosmetic junk. Make it handle better and go faster.

Solid metal shifter bushings are good and improve grarchange feel.

http://www.verdictmotorsports.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=0100

http://store.42draftdesigns.com/VW-Shifter-Bushing-Set--Mk4-56S-MY02-05_p_279.html

Also Forge short shifter is good.

Dog mount is one of the best bushes to change for sub £20 mod, and made one hell of a difference to my car. Also a quick easy job to do too.

Cheapest thing you can do for performance is check your tyre pressures.

That can make a world of difference.

Drill the wheel arch liner behind the intercooler to improve airflow behind it...

+1

see http://www.briskoda....s/#entry2300875

Change the dogbone bushes, I'm selling a whole mount in the for sale section btw

Agree, dont bother spending the stuff on pointless splitters and cosmetic junk. Make it handle better and go faster.

Not much use if the guys insurance is excessive though? Not mentioned but usually cheap mods are done for a reason that do not incur any additional costs e.g. extra insurance premiums

Do the dogbone make a diff to a standard vrs? I can get 1 cheap of a mate

Yes one hell of a difference, even our lass noticed. There is a lot less wheel spin and even goes round round abouts better. Well worth the £20.

Does anyone know if the Audi TT arch with the vent fit an octi?

Most people cut the vent from Audi arch liner then fit it to the octy one. Been a few how to threads on here. I just cut about 15-20 horizontal lines each about 6-7 inches wide behind the intercooler in the arch liner and heated up each end and twisted it through 45 degrees ish. This allows the air through but keeps the water from the wheel out.

Thanks. Want to keep it OE looking.

Does anyone know if the Audi TT arch with the vent fit an octi?

It won't fit as is but you can cut the vent out the TT arch and then cut same size hole in VRS arch and if carefull black mastic it is place so it looks OEM. That is what I did before I got a FMIC using clamps to get arch to stay neat whilst sealant cured , can post a few pics. Good thing about the TT vent is the slats are angled so they do not get water flowing in but allow heat out away from the intercooler.

Pics would be good if its not a pain. Might buy an arch as they are quite cheap.

Read the "General Motoring -> Racing and Advanced Driving Techniques" sub-forum. It won't actually make the car faster, but it will make the driver faster, and probably safer and more economical with it.

+1 on the advanced driving

There are wheel arch mods galore BUT the best is to get a nice big vent cover( white plastic ones) from the cheapest DIY store you can find and cut that into the arch and spray black. when you look at vents they should have an air flow area marked on them. I looked at the aluminium ones initially but they flowed a lot less than the plastic ones. To get the maximum benefit from opening up the wheel arch you should also remove the restrictive plastic grill in front of the Intercooler. I trimmed all the excess plastic off mine increasing the frontal flow area by at least 50% with a fine mesh over it to stop stone damage. I also cleaned the gunk out of the IC fins as if these are blocked then you wont have good airflow.

A lot of people claim that definning the airbox does nothing, but if you also add an extra air intake pipe/pipes to the base of the box and have them fed from the front it really helps, I used conduit flexi pipe designed for running cables as they connect to the airbox using glands to keep it all sealed up and secure. I used to get TIP collapse at 5500rpm until I did this mod so no need for a fancy TIP as the standard one is fine as long at the air intake is not so restricted.

make sure to change the air filter regularly for the standard paper one. Cheap and easy mod to reclaim lost power and economy.

Mk6 2.0T coilpacks - and bump up the gap

Gtechniq G1 or similar - once you try it you will be hooked.

LPG oops wrong price range of mods :p

It won't fit as is but you can cut the vent out the TT arch and then cut same size hole in VRS arch and if carefull black mastic it is place so it looks OEM. That is what I did before I got a FMIC using clamps to get arch to stay neat whilst sealant cured , can post a few pics. Good thing about the TT vent is the slats are angled so they do not get water flowing in but allow heat out away from the intercooler.

same effect can be achieved with the DIY mod as well