18-03-2019, 04:55 PM
Hi. I spent a few years and a lot of money putting bodies and a gti6 exhaust manifold on a 1.8. Its the same stud pattern. It only made about 10 hp more. ECU tuning isnt readily available and being N/A you wont see many gains. You can put gti6 inlet and exhaust on it but without being able to adjust the map to suit you wont see many gains.
The best thing you can probably do is keep the exhaust on. Maybe put a filter on for more noise but be careful for heatsoak. Spend your money on some other things like Bilstein B12 suspension and eibach springs. You can git a gti6 box which may help you feel like youre going faster due to the shorter gearing.
If you do get it tuned it would be a few hundred... at which point you might as well have just bought a gti6 engine and drop it in.
The best thing you can probably do is keep the exhaust on. Maybe put a filter on for more noise but be careful for heatsoak. Spend your money on some other things like Bilstein B12 suspension and eibach springs. You can git a gti6 box which may help you feel like youre going faster due to the shorter gearing.
If you do get it tuned it would be a few hundred... at which point you might as well have just bought a gti6 engine and drop it in.