On the way back from london, was in a good mood as i had just met up with some friends and i was on my way back to meet my girlfriend... was driving quite 'enthusiastically' lets say, and i noticed i was being tailed by the previous shape golf. We get to the lights and i thought "Ok i'm going to show this guy he shouldn't mess with the better marque!"
We get off at the lights at exactly the same pace, which i intially found extremely strange cuz i have quite decent clutch control and i can get a great jump ahead of many drivers from standstill.
Anyway we're both booting it, and i can hear his car sound alot more muscular then i remember any golf engine being... into 3rd gear now and he's still bonnet-to-bonnet with me, no one is pulling away and we're both exactly the same... and i'm quite shocked at this point that he could even keep up (GTi's in that shape dont keep up with me)..
We get to the next set of lights and we were both alone on this 3 lane A road... he let his window down and said "DUUUUDE!!! THATS NOT EVEN AN AMG", i was like "DUUUDE... thats just a golf!", he then told me to look at the back of his car, i reversed slighty only to find...
the twin piped R32....
i moved forward again and started laughing quite nervously... and he said "isn't that just a standard 2.3 supercharged??", i told him it was. Light went green, and i had to turn left, so we both took separate routes home.
Ok R32's are in the region of 240bhp, and they must be lighter than mine ... right??
Well either way i've booked my car in with DMS next saturday to get the remap... they pledge 24bhp and 20ft lbs of torque, and included in the price is a before and after dyno.... i'm so eager to see what this 'before' dyno figure is going to be...
We get off at the lights at exactly the same pace, which i intially found extremely strange cuz i have quite decent clutch control and i can get a great jump ahead of many drivers from standstill.
Anyway we're both booting it, and i can hear his car sound alot more muscular then i remember any golf engine being... into 3rd gear now and he's still bonnet-to-bonnet with me, no one is pulling away and we're both exactly the same... and i'm quite shocked at this point that he could even keep up (GTi's in that shape dont keep up with me)..
We get to the next set of lights and we were both alone on this 3 lane A road... he let his window down and said "DUUUUDE!!! THATS NOT EVEN AN AMG", i was like "DUUUDE... thats just a golf!", he then told me to look at the back of his car, i reversed slighty only to find...
the twin piped R32....
i moved forward again and started laughing quite nervously... and he said "isn't that just a standard 2.3 supercharged??", i told him it was. Light went green, and i had to turn left, so we both took separate routes home.
Ok R32's are in the region of 240bhp, and they must be lighter than mine ... right??
Well either way i've booked my car in with DMS next saturday to get the remap... they pledge 24bhp and 20ft lbs of torque, and included in the price is a before and after dyno.... i'm so eager to see what this 'before' dyno figure is going to be...
eek: ) which could outperform it... Such is technological progress.
Although I did manage to blag a blue-light run about a year ago. I was in the area when someone called up for urgent assistance so made my way (In suit!) and found a rather angry young man who needed to be restrained in the back of a van. Unfortunately of the 3 officers present I was the only response-trained one 
(Apart from the large PC in the back sitting on our friend. Which I didn't fancy 
