Hi all,
Newbie here, so some light background.......I bought my 2010 GT THP 156 (Grey 41k) at the end of November last year (and joined this forum), but was unable to drive it initially due to illness. I am now recovering following an op and have been slowly putting a few more miles on the clock :0) It was a close choice between the RCZ and a tt (a common dilemma I believe) but the great looks and rarity swung it for the pug, even though I preferred the performance figures of the tt (note the lower case!). I love this car it drives great and I am getting into throwing it around properly (in a safe and proper environment of course) and have no regrets with my purchase but....... it needs a little more go. So why didn't I buy a 200 or R? Well money at the time and being honest I just fell in love with the car overnight and needed a personal lift, so my partner, god bless her, got out her card and bought it for me.
I don't have a garage just off street parking so bought a quality cover, but when the day came about a month ago to uncover her and have a drive (the car that is) the brakes had locked on, but after some light knocking here and there and some patience, issue resolved and off I went. The brakes work fine and stop convincingly even after hard driving, but I may replace/upgrade the discs and replace the pads with some green or yellow stuff equivalents as have used these before with good results. So back to the lack of oomph; I was thinking of keeping it fairly simple, change of panel filter to Piper or K&N, a stainless steel catback exhaust, not a noisy one and of course a remap, likely in that order to make the most of the remap. I guess this is a common thread type, so sorry to bore everyone, but was looking for some comments,views, recommendations etc. I need to watch the costs so have been shopping around but have I overlooked something obvious or any week point that will also need to be addressed if I go down this road. I am hoping to get around 200-205bhp at the end which should give it a little more kick? Can any specific suppliers for the above be recommended, given i currently live in Essex, i have been looking at Rtec in St Albans but happy to travel for the right attention?
Thanks for reading this, much appreciated and all comments welcome, positive, negative or indifferent, everyone is entitled to an opinion and a diff in opinion is always good for some healthy banter :0)
Pugsy SOS
Newbie here, so some light background.......I bought my 2010 GT THP 156 (Grey 41k) at the end of November last year (and joined this forum), but was unable to drive it initially due to illness. I am now recovering following an op and have been slowly putting a few more miles on the clock :0) It was a close choice between the RCZ and a tt (a common dilemma I believe) but the great looks and rarity swung it for the pug, even though I preferred the performance figures of the tt (note the lower case!). I love this car it drives great and I am getting into throwing it around properly (in a safe and proper environment of course) and have no regrets with my purchase but....... it needs a little more go. So why didn't I buy a 200 or R? Well money at the time and being honest I just fell in love with the car overnight and needed a personal lift, so my partner, god bless her, got out her card and bought it for me.
I don't have a garage just off street parking so bought a quality cover, but when the day came about a month ago to uncover her and have a drive (the car that is) the brakes had locked on, but after some light knocking here and there and some patience, issue resolved and off I went. The brakes work fine and stop convincingly even after hard driving, but I may replace/upgrade the discs and replace the pads with some green or yellow stuff equivalents as have used these before with good results. So back to the lack of oomph; I was thinking of keeping it fairly simple, change of panel filter to Piper or K&N, a stainless steel catback exhaust, not a noisy one and of course a remap, likely in that order to make the most of the remap. I guess this is a common thread type, so sorry to bore everyone, but was looking for some comments,views, recommendations etc. I need to watch the costs so have been shopping around but have I overlooked something obvious or any week point that will also need to be addressed if I go down this road. I am hoping to get around 200-205bhp at the end which should give it a little more kick? Can any specific suppliers for the above be recommended, given i currently live in Essex, i have been looking at Rtec in St Albans but happy to travel for the right attention?
Thanks for reading this, much appreciated and all comments welcome, positive, negative or indifferent, everyone is entitled to an opinion and a diff in opinion is always good for some healthy banter :0)
Pugsy SOS
in one if I had got petrol. 
Lol 
