When we final left you, the humble little SportWagen was fresh from the event course of with our associates at AWE Tuning, sporting a brand new downpipe, exhaust and intake, permitting things to breathe a bit easier. The car sounded great, however there was no getting around the fact that our wagon was nonetheless fairly, well, gradual. While we realize that nothing we do to the Golf SportWagen at this level will make it a race automobile, we nonetheless felt compelled to do something. To put it bluntly, we had a fever, and the only cure was more power. Flash forward a number of hours, and we found ourselves at Waterfest, staring down APR’s palatial spread and the quite a few tuned automobiles surrounding it. With the Golf SportWagen now in one among their flashing bays and our paperwork turned in, the APR staffers got to work, plugging a cable into the OBDII port, and clicking a few icons on their laptop computer. It’s a fairly slick process, and for these unfamiliar, it may all seem a bit underwhelming. To be honest- it is. There’s no reducing. Air ratchets keep silent. It’s strictly a plug-and-play operation.
Very like that album you simply torrented, a progress bar is the only indication that one thing is occurring. A couple of comments on how we appreciated the automotive (we do), and the weather situations in New Jersey (it’s sizzling) later, the job was finished. I was told to enjoy it, and sent on my method. The first drive with this newfound energy was a sluggish cruise back to our setup at the far end of the vendor space, the place the car would stay parked until sun fell low within the night sky. To be sincere, it was an excruciating few hours of waiting. Very like a toddler dragged to brunch on Christmas, we just needed to play with our new toy. And after we lastly bought the prospect, we took full advantage. APR claims to reveal an additional 85hp and 101tq with their Stage 2 file, and we believe it. The primary time actually getting on the fuel, our previously timid Golf SportWagen struggled to maintain traction by way of the first two gears and into third. What once was a sluggish sweep towards redline, was changed by a surge by way of the rev vary, and the blinking traction management light that accompanies it.
The soundtrack became a bit more aggressive as well, as the intake sound and turbo spool grew to become fairly a lot more pronounced, and is now accompanied by a DSG-fart like noise from the rear throughout excessive rpm shifts. As you possibly can see from APR’s chart above, the car’s newfound energy is way more than merely impressive dyno numbers. The excessive five-second run to 60 definitely won’t set anyone’s hair on fire, but the fact that it comes a full second and a half sooner than stock will increase quite a number of eyebrows. It should come as no surprise then, that we’ve had a troublesome time preserving our right foot off the loud pedal. In the case of fuel economy, we’ve observed that it is essentially unchanged from the figures seen during our initial highway journey from Chicago back to central Pennsylvania. 36mpg determine is sufficient to please just about anyone, though the tune does require 93 octane fuel, which is a bit more expensive than the 89 you possibly can get away with on the inventory car. Still, we predict the commerce off is well value it. So what’s next for the SportWagen? Well, we’ll be tackling some interior bits with help from Volkswagen Accessories, and including some a lot needed protection to the rear bumper.
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