[pgarner]

the 1.8t golf engine is supposed to be good up to 300 bhp on standard internals. standard acceleration is just over 8 seconds and with an aggressive remap this can be as low a 6.5 with 220ish bhp . but how often are you going to hammer it from the start ? if not often like HDI says go down the diesel route and get it remapped the 1.9 golf will give you around 200bhp and a hell of a lot more torque,better for real driving, and economy over the petrol. depending on how much money you have you could look along the lines of BMW 330d and 335d engines

if you go down the 1.8t engine APR do remap kit for £1750 +vat
include down below


APR software - 3 programs (Stage 2 95RON, Stage 2 98RON, Stock)
Throttle body alignment & Fault Code Erase
Security Anti-Theft
Cruise control (including stalk)
Neuspeed P-Flo (Audi TT)
APR 3" Turbo back exhaust (with high flowing catalysts)
Fully fitted - about 5 hours labour

or for around £5k they can take it up to 340bhp and 330 ftlb with turbo upgrade and they dont say the internals have to be uprated with this kit

jsb can take it up to over 600bhp if your completely insane