6 hours ago, Dan374 said:

Haha, I have the Dyno read out 🙂

The 305 wheel horsepower is about lineball with others. Amazing results on the IS20 in any case, really keen to see how you go with the IS38 as I'm trying to find one as well.

3 hours ago, StealthRS245 said:

The 305 wheel horsepower is about lineball with others. Amazing results on the IS20 in any case, really keen to see how you go with the IS38 as I'm trying to find one as well.

Pick them up on eBay for around 350 to 500 quid here is UK, I will try and keep you posted

9 hours ago, Dan374 said:

Nice, does yours have the dcc suspension?

No it doesn’t, standard setup only on this one.

12 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

For the front it was about £900. £300 for the calipers from a Polish exotic car breaker had the paint to touch them up at home anyway (it’s RAL3000 Red in this case), £330 for new discs, £160 for brackets and HEL lines, £70 for OEM pads, can get fast road for about £110-120 also did new fluid and RS3 cooling ducts in the deal. This is about as cheap as I’ve seen 4 pots fitted to an Octy and the car really stops now. I did Silverstone recently and was lapping with an IS38 equipped 380 bhp Octy on standard brakes and under

breaking and round corners I was faster as I could hold more speed; obviously on the straights my 227 bhp mapped TDI was left for dead though. My car is also now lowered on H&R 40mm springs and it makes a big difference.

Ok so I’m going to keep my Calipers so that reduces that and the cost of brackets, so really I’m looking at just 340 or 345 mm in front and 310 mm on back with pads and lines and fluid/air ducts, so help me out a little here, if I keep the my callipers and go for a bigger disc, will it fit, so i have to bear in mind width of disc like for like or will the vrs Caliper fit a bigger disc.  Where did you source your stuff from if that’s ok??

If you stick with the OEM calipers you will be stuck with 340 discs but consider the Golf CS discs and pads if you stay OEM. If you do the rear 310 conversion it’ll need to be with parts from a manual handbrake car, Golf 5 R32, Audi S3 8P or Audi TT 8J 3.2. You will need brake lines from these cars too.

14 hours ago, Dan374 said:

Haha, I have the Dyno read out 🙂

 

Was this QST in Haywards Heath...?

20 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

Below is my front brake setup, DB9 calipers

 

How are you finding those? What is the pedal like? I think I'd be looking at changing the 23.81 master cylinder for the 25.40 with those calipers, they take quite a bit of fluid.

 

16 hours ago, shyVRS245 said:

Read that in America Golf GTi MK7 owners use Audi RS3 COIL PACKS (OBVIOUSLY 4 NOT 5) with Audi R8 Iridium spark plugs which might be my next mod nearer to plug replacement time around 50,000 miles but not sure whether it will add anymore power with a third remap.

 

What plugs are you using now? Rule of thumb is a stage colder spark plug for each stage of tune

57 minutes ago, flybynite said:

 

How are you finding those? What is the pedal like? I think I'd be looking at changing the 23.81 master cylinder for the 25.40 with those calipers, they take quite a bit of fluid.

 

 

What plugs are you using now? Rule of thumb is a stage colder spark plug for each stage of tune

Still got the standard factory plugs in so thinking better Iridium (cooler) ones might help the combustion a bit and produce a bit more power if optimised with a remap.

2 minutes ago, shyVRS245 said:

Still got the standard factory plugs in so thinking better Iridium (cooler) ones might help the combustion a bit and produce a bit more power if optimised with a remap.

 

Denso iridium ones are supposed to be the dog's.

3 hours ago, flybynite said:

 

How are you finding those? What is the pedal like? I think I'd be looking at changing the 23.81 master cylinder for the 25.40 with those calipers, they take quite a bit of fluid.

Great! Pedal is awesome even on the standard MC. I see no reason to change it for the use the car gets.

13 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

Great! Pedal is awesome even on the standard MC. I see no reason to change it for the use the car gets.

 

If you are not finding it a problem then stick with it, but personally I have not been happy with anything bigger the Boxster units on the standard MC.

 

You are losing around 20% of your pedal with that swap.

 

Keep the fluid fresh and don't let things get too hot and you should be OK

20 hours ago, Ads230 said:

 

Was this QST in Haywards Heath...?

Indeed it was

17 hours ago, flybynite said:

 

How are you finding those? What is the pedal like? I think I'd be looking at changing the 23.81 master cylinder for the 25.40 with those calipers, they take quite a bit of fluid.

 

 

What plugs are you using now? Rule of thumb is a stage colder spark plug for each stage of tune

Ngk performance racing plugs

20 hours ago, Ads230 said:

 

Was this QST in Haywards Heath...?

I see you are also from West Sussex.  What’s your take on QST, have you had dealings or mod your car with them?

20 hours ago, SashaGrace said:

If you stick with the OEM calipers you will be stuck with 340 discs but consider the Golf CS discs and pads if you stay OEM. If you do the rear 310 conversion it’ll need to be with parts from a manual handbrake car, Golf 5 R32, Audi S3 8P or Audi TT 8J 3.2. You will need brake lines from these cars too.

I’m going to stick like for like at front and possibly go 310 on rear with new calipers and lines all around, thanks for all your advice, I’ll know def where to come next time 🙂

16 hours ago, tunedude said:

Denso iridium ones are supposed to be the dog's.

 

15 minutes ago, Dan374 said:

Ngk performance racing plugs

 

It is not the make of the plug that matters it is getting one stage colder in their range than is standard for the car that matters.

 

Whoever did the mapping should be able to recommend a plug that goes with their map. If they can't or don't know what you are talking about, I would question whether I wanted their map.

 

The map may cater for standard heat plugs but I would want to be told that.

26 minutes ago, Dan374 said:

What’s your take on QST

Rate them highly indeed - they're more expensive than elsewhere (dyno run was £100 when I asked...?) but the quality, knowledge and experience for me was worth it. I've had 1 minor service (@ 25k miles), and minor issues fixed on-demand (sticking turbo actuator, loose exhaust fitment). I came to them late having used a couple of other garages in / around the area; Kim (owner) has always been excellent and typically has identified issues over the phone before even seeing the car.

40 minutes ago, flybynite said:

 

 

It is not the make of the plug that matters it is getting one stage colder in their range than is standard for the car that matters.

 

Whoever did the mapping should be able to recommend a plug that goes with their map. If they can't or don't know what you are talking about, I would question whether I wanted their map.

 

The map may cater for standard heat plugs but I would want to be told that.

That is the one they recommended with apr software 🙂

9 minutes ago, Ads230 said:

Rate them highly indeed - they're more expensive than elsewhere (dyno run was £100 when I asked...?) but the quality, knowledge and experience for me was worth it. I've had 1 minor service (@ 25k miles), and minor issues fixed on-demand (sticking turbo actuator, loose exhaust fitment). I came to them late having used a couple of other garages in / around the area; Kim (owner) has always been excellent and typically has identified issues over the phone before even seeing the car.

Yep couldn’t agree more, tonne of knowledge, would go back to them time after time.  Done a gr8 job on my car, very happy 😊 

As an FYI, have you seen that some of us are meeting up this Saturday? (Apologies if you've already seen - good chance to nip a few people off the podium)  

On 11/11/2019 at 13:55, Dan374 said:

Hi to all

 

I’m brand new to the forums and I was looking for some input from ya’ll, I have just stage 2 my 2018 vrs , I’m running 19’s on all corners p zero’s.  Been driving it and def needs some stopping power.  Was seeing if anyone recommend a reasonable upgraded brake kit, without hurting the wallet to much,  looking at Brembo, any one with experience with these or or no good or something else?, thanks 🙂

 

I know that this thread have been sleeping for a long time, but just to mention, because when I purchased my octi in 2021 I didn't have too much information, if you want to put some bigger brakes, the cayenne 958/ panamera/ macan s front calipers are a great option, 6 pot that you can easily mount in 375 mm rotors (taking into consideration at least 19 rims and depending of your et, wheel spacers), brakets and more info about this is available in many sites, in my case I bought the brackets, rotor center rings and brake lines from them. Good luck to anyone who is looking to have a cheap bbk

Edited 20 January, 20233 yr by Felo