Hello, 

 

Been a lurker on this forum for a while, but after tuning my superb, decided to share my experience with the GPF version, since I have not seen many of those here. 
 

Performance modifications done to the car:

 

do88 intercooler

revo cone intake

GPF-back 3” exhaust with resonator delete and aftermarket backboxes

revo stage 2 gpf ECU (which honestly in my eyes is a high torque stage1, I was planning on going for TVS ECU but due to circumstances that didnt pan out)
TVS stage 2+ TCU

 

Exterior mods:

 

debadging the car

painting skoda badge to match car

aftermarket wheels Japan Racing JR42

eibach lowering springs

Brake calipers painted red(not sure if this is a “mod” but mentioning it anyway)

 

I now finally have dragy times after tuning so I can make the post. I cannot find stock dragy times currently, but I will look more to see if I can find them. 
 

Stock times:

0-100 accel 5.18sec

1/4 mile 13.38sec

 

After tune:

0-100 accel 4.28sec

1/4 mile 12.47sec

These results are on pump gas 98RON.

All in all I am very happy with the results, can is much more agile and responsive. Gearbox feels a lot smoother and I like the shift points better as well.

 

I was averaging around 12L/100km before on purely town driving (I have an aggressive driving style) and now it is about 13L/100km, so not that big of an increase. On highway I used to get high 6 or low 7 per 100km, after tune I got 7.5L/100km. 
 

To finish it off guess I can put some pics of the car/mods.

In case anyone is interested, I also have a small clip of what the car sounds like now. The downpipe is still stock with cats and GPF in place.

 

 

Not sure how much justice the video does to the sound, but while it does sound like most 2 litre engines, I feel it is a tone lower, atleast compared to other similar cars in my area with modified exhausts. I am quite fond of it. Drone is fairly minimal and I plan on getting sound deafening in the trunk next year. 

 

@rightyIs that running it on 99 ron minimum E5?

17 minutes ago, toot said:

@rightyIs that running it on 99 ron minimum E5?

He said 98RON and quoting L/100 so I'm guessing either Aus or Ireland?

 

Update: Whoops RHD LHD so wrong on both counts

 

Edited 22 September, 20232 yr by Gerrycan

Thanks i missed that.  It had not all loaded when i was looking at it.

Also that it was not a car in the UK where there is no sellers of 98 ron.

Very limited in Ireland to get super unleaded.

Edited 22 September, 20232 yr by toot

Yes, correct it is 98RON E5. I am in Europe, more precicesly Estonia.

@righty I love this, it looks really great with the subtle exterior mods(only needs to be subtle with the colour of the car). Impressive performance.

 

Wheels look lovely, what width and ET are they, did you use as any spacers for them to fill the arch?

No rubbing?

 

Thanks 

 

3 minutes ago, Bobodaclown said:

@righty I love this, it looks really great with the subtle exterior mods(only needs to be subtle with the colour of the car). Impressive performance.

 

Wheels look lovely, what width and ET are they, did you use as any spacers for them to fill the arch?

No rubbing?

 

Thanks 

 

Thank you, I am happy with how my car looks as well. Have minor ideas/plans for next year that I want to try/carry out, to make it that tiny bit more agressive and stand out more. Yes, I am very satisfied with how the car performs, most cars that try to race me(because they think superbs are slow 😅) are left in the dust and then they get upset and speed past me when I am just doing the speed limit.

 

As for the wheels, they are 19x8.5 ET35. For a year I drove as is, the image in my 3rd post is one without spacers.

This year I decided to try out 10mm spacers, while the fitment is a lot more flush and that is what I would like to run, for me atleast it rubs on the back arch, lost a tiny bit of paint on the edge so I had to remove the rear spacers, front ones are fine and still on. Need to think of a solution for the rear, as I would like to put the spacers back, giving it the perfect fit (in my opinion).

9 minutes ago, righty said:

Thank you, I am happy with how my car looks as well. Have minor ideas/plans for next year that I want to try/carry out, to make it that tiny bit more agressive and stand out more. Yes, I am very satisfied with how the car performs, most cars that try to race me(because they think superbs are slow 😅) are left in the dust and then they get upset and speed past me when I am just doing the speed limit.

 

As for the wheels, they are 19x8.5 ET35. For a year I drove as is, the image in my 3rd post is one without spacers.

This year I decided to try out 10mm spacers, while the fitment is a lot more flush and that is what I would like to run, for me atleast it rubs on the back arch, lost a tiny bit of paint on the edge so I had to remove the rear spacers, front ones are fine and still on. Need to think of a solution for the rear, as I would like to put the spacers back, giving it the perfect fit (in my opinion).

This is so true re the performance no one expects anything from them, I have a 280 estate as stock currently.

 

Great to see yours as it is similar to what I will do to mine, toward the end of this year mine will have a stage 1 Revo map and stage2+ TVS TCU.

 

At the moment just getting the suspension + eibach springs sorted. After that a set of JR SL01 wheels as well I think.

11 minutes ago, Bobodaclown said:

This is so true re the performance no one expects anything from them, I have a 280 estate as stock currently.

 

Great to see yours as it is similar to what I will do to mine, toward the end of this year mine will have a stage 1 Revo map and stage2+ TVS TCU.

 

At the moment just getting the suspension + eibach springs sorted. After that a set of JR SL01 wheels as well I think.

Yes, even in stock the car is a beast. 
 

I have the revo stage 2 gpf ECU tune (but since I retain the stock downpipe, it is only stage 2 in name and actually same as stage 1 if you ask me.. I dont really consider it stage2 until the downpipe is changed). Since you have the 280 version I am guessing you have the pre gpf version?

 

I was going to get the SL01 wheels, they look great and are 4kg lighter per corner than the ones I have, but a colleague of mine already has them and since we go to car meets and stuff together, I did not want same wheels.

 

Anyway, here is a picture of the fitment with spacers on front and back. It is not letting me upload more to the forums directly, so here is a link. (keep in mind the rear rubs with this setup unless you figure out a way to make it not rub)

 

https://imgur.com/a/UJzpSHQ

Edited 22 September, 20232 yr by righty

@righty that's right pre gpf.

 

Ahhhh both sets of wheels look lovely. A friend has a set of SL01 on an Audi S4 they look great. 

Yeah I am conscious of often the car has is loaded and certainly don't want any rubbing so may avoid spacers and go as good as I can with the new wheels. Thank you for sharing the pictures.

15 minutes ago, Bobodaclown said:

@righty that's right pre gpf.

 

Ahhhh both sets of wheels look lovely. A friend has a set of SL01 on an Audi S4 they look great. 

Yeah I am conscious of often the car has is loaded and certainly don't want any rubbing so may avoid spacers and go as good as I can with the new wheels. Thank you for sharing the pictures.

Yea, so for pre-gpf it would be stage1 since stage2 would require a downpipe swap(but if I remember correctly revo quotes gpf stage 2 same as pre-gpf stage 2, so you might get a little bit less power, though I dont know what the reality of that is, since just saying it does not make it true).

 

Stage 1 vs

 

At first I wanted to get TVS stage 1(disregard the stage 2 text, they have their own "tiers" it is actually a stage 1 since no mods are required), since they offer a bit more torque and horsepower. But then the dealer close to me stopped working with TVS so my option was to get Revo, which is also good. Image for your car, just for comparison.

 

 

I cannot vouch for TVS ECU on superb, but 2 of my colleagues run it on their golfs, one R and one GTI and they are very happy.

 

Yeah, I am still happy with how the JR42's look and I have not seen anyone else with these in my country yet, let alone the town.

Just running 19x8.5 ET35 should be fine, I had no rubbing whatsoever with that setup. Having 5mm more on the rear might be fine also, but since I have not tested that, I cant vouch for it. If you feel like taking the chance for a better fitment, could try going ET30 (if they even offer it).

Edited 22 September, 20232 yr by righty

@righty that makes sense on the tune. I spoke to a couple of VAG tuners, both recommended the Revo/TVS route. Advised the TVS on the TCU. Will go that route when I can.

 

The JR42S look lovely. Interesting on the wheels, my friend with the Audi are ET32... we were going to try them on mine to see how they go.

 

 

2 hours ago, Bobodaclown said:

@righty that makes sense on the tune. I spoke to a couple of VAG tuners, both recommended the Revo/TVS route. Advised the TVS on the TCU. Will go that route when I can.

 

The JR42S look lovely. Interesting on the wheels, my friend with the Audi are ET32... we were going to try them on mine to see how they go.

 

 

I can vouch for the TVS full package. Dsg stage 2 plus and the stage 2 as they call it map. Mapped to run 98 octane. It’s bloody quick and smooth. 380bhp 550nm 
RL turbo elbow, muffler delete, coil packs, r600. GFB dv+ 

lowered on h&r and koni special actives with 12mm spacers all round. 

8 hours ago, Esseesse200 said:

I can vouch for the TVS full package. Dsg stage 2 plus and the stage 2 as they call it map. Mapped to run 98 octane. It’s bloody quick and smooth. 380bhp 550nm 
RL turbo elbow, muffler delete, coil packs, r600. GFB dv+ 

lowered on h&r and koni special actives with 12mm spacers all round. 

Glad to hear that TVS is as good as I was thinking it would be, sad I could not get that myself, but revo is not bad either. 
 

What is your wheel size if you are running 12mm spacers?

 

Also do you have 0-100(0-62) and 1/4 mile times for comparison? I have not been on dyno, but I am guessing around 380bhp and 540nm for me

Edited 23 September, 20232 yr by righty

9 hours ago, Esseesse200 said:

I can vouch for the TVS full package. Dsg stage 2 plus and the stage 2 as they call it map. Mapped to run 98 octane. It’s bloody quick and smooth. 380bhp 550nm 
RL turbo elbow, muffler delete, coil packs, r600. GFB dv+ 

lowered on h&r and koni special actives with 12mm spacers all round. 

Great to hear, the stage 2 did you have to do the other changes?

Such impressive performance numbers.

Car looks great BTW

 

1 minute ago, Bobodaclown said:

Great to hear, the stage 2 did you have to do the other changes?

Such impressive performance numbers.

Car looks great BTW

 

As I mentioned in an earlier post, TVS stage 2 is actually a stage 1 map, his mods are just extra and not required. Unless he means he got the actual stage 2 which would be stage3 in TVS tiering, but that would require a downpipe he did not mention, so it should be a stage 1 map, just in TVS tiering it is stage 2, because their stage1 is a driveability map.

 

Also yeah, the konis seem to lower the car even more, I am still on stock shocks.

14 hours ago, Bobodaclown said:

Great to hear, the stage 2 did you have to do the other changes?

Such impressive performance numbers.

Car looks great BTW

 

TVs stage 2+ gear box map and what they call stage 2 which is generally some intake Mods which I have listed: down pipe and intercooler would be the next couple mods: 

16 hours ago, righty said:

Glad to hear that TVS is as good as I was thinking it would be, sad I could not get that myself, but revo is not bad either. 
 

What is your wheel size if you are running 12mm spacers?

 

Also do you have 0-100(0-62) and 1/4 mile times for comparison? I have not been on dyno, but I am guessing around 380bhp and 540nm for me

Never really timed 0-100 but I think around 4-4.5 but I did time the 100-200 and that was 10secs

7 hours ago, Esseesse200 said:

Never really timed 0-100 but I think around 4-4.5 but I did time the 100-200 and that was 10secs

Hmm, if your 100-200 is 10sec with pretty much same power, while mine is 13.3sec, then your 0-100 should be ~4sek, considering mine is 4.28

Though I doubt there is such a big difference in the 2 tunes that yours is over 3sec faster.. did you measure with dragy?

Edited 24 September, 20232 yr by righty

On 22/09/2023 at 20:12, righty said:

Thank you, I am happy with how my car looks as well. Have minor ideas/plans for next year that I want to try/carry out, to make it that tiny bit more agressive and stand out more. Yes, I am very satisfied with how the car performs, most cars that try to race me(because they think superbs are slow 😅) are left in the dust and then they get upset and speed past me when I am just doing the speed limit.

 

As for the wheels, they are 19x8.5 ET35. For a year I drove as is, the image in my 3rd post is one without spacers.

This year I decided to try out 10mm spacers, while the fitment is a lot more flush and that is what I would like to run, for me atleast it rubs on the back arch, lost a tiny bit of paint on the edge so I had to remove the rear spacers, front ones are fine and still on. Need to think of a solution for the rear, as I would like to put the spacers back, giving it the perfect fit (in my opinion).

Very nice looking car. What tyres are you running on the 8.5s please.  And I know you’re on eibachs but do you also have DCC shocks?

Edited 26 September, 20232 yr by Donweather

14 minutes ago, Donweather said:

Very nice looking car. What tyres are you running on the 8.5s please.  And I know you’re on eibachs but do you also have DCC shocks?

Thank you.

 

If you mean size, I am running 235/40. Was thinking about getting 235/35, but did not want to get that low profile, so I went for a higher profile and I think the comfort should be a little bit better on the 40 as well, unless I am mistaken.

 

I do not have DCC, standard shocks. 
 

On another note, the car goes really well with fall tones.

 

https://imgur.com/a/smslpYI

Edited 26 September, 20232 yr by righty

On 24/09/2023 at 07:24, righty said:

Hmm, if your 100-200 is 10sec with pretty much same power, while mine is 13.3sec, then your 0-100 should be ~4sek, considering mine is 4.28

Though I doubt there is such a big difference in the 2 tunes that yours is over 3sec faster.. did you measure with dragy?