30-01-2012, 04:25 PM
I think the expense is relative though.....you probably have a lot more spare cash than I do!!
As much as I like petrols............I can see diesel is the way forward (for now, until hydrogen or whatever else) and I'm finally starting to get into this diesel tuning 'thing' tbh.....
I bought the golf for the wrong reasons - I couldn't afford to fuel the 1.8 and was given some money to spend on something 'better than a 306' (not my words). So I found something that did 60mpg, cost £115 a year to tax and should have been reliable enough to last me a year without having to do anything to do anything to it and had 130bhpz....while I sorted out some other 'stuff' that was going on at the time. I can see that was a bad decision now. But when I ignore mpg and the fact that on stock suspension it handles like a boat, when I ocassionally get it in the right gear and boot it, it really does shift and at the point I don't care what its running off.......over the last week or two have actually started liking the diesel idea..........
And thats what interetseted me enough to do the project on it.....not gonna lie I'd love a '6, but its not gonna happen so next best thing is diesel modding!
Unfortunately I think this 'may' not be happening with a HDi now.....however, the FMIC, bigger turbo, remap, de-cat, de-egr etc WILL hopefully be happening to the next car I buy....
It's really down to money though............theres never enough of it to actually do what I want.............if money was no object I would be 16Valving a HDi.
As much as I like petrols............I can see diesel is the way forward (for now, until hydrogen or whatever else) and I'm finally starting to get into this diesel tuning 'thing' tbh.....
I bought the golf for the wrong reasons - I couldn't afford to fuel the 1.8 and was given some money to spend on something 'better than a 306' (not my words). So I found something that did 60mpg, cost £115 a year to tax and should have been reliable enough to last me a year without having to do anything to do anything to it and had 130bhpz....while I sorted out some other 'stuff' that was going on at the time. I can see that was a bad decision now. But when I ignore mpg and the fact that on stock suspension it handles like a boat, when I ocassionally get it in the right gear and boot it, it really does shift and at the point I don't care what its running off.......over the last week or two have actually started liking the diesel idea..........
And thats what interetseted me enough to do the project on it.....not gonna lie I'd love a '6, but its not gonna happen so next best thing is diesel modding!
Unfortunately I think this 'may' not be happening with a HDi now.....however, the FMIC, bigger turbo, remap, de-cat, de-egr etc WILL hopefully be happening to the next car I buy....
It's really down to money though............theres never enough of it to actually do what I want.............if money was no object I would be 16Valving a HDi.