ckuhns
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Scotts Valley, CA
- Car(s)
- 2019 Golf Sportwagen
Been hanging around for a bit but figured I should start one of these..
My car is a 2019 Golf S Sportwagon 4motion with a manual that I bought new July 2019, I've now got just shy of 45k on it.
I don't have a whole lot of photo's of it, from when I got it till now, but here's a run down of what I've done so far (that i
Within a month of buying it, I got a APR Stage 1 tune for 87 octane, shortly after for a used 034 Motorsports P34 intake, used 034 Motorsports rear swaybar, and used 18" bronze Neuspeed RSE10's. After driving it like that for awhile and a lot of commuting, I eventually got some Koni Special Actives and Golf R hatch front springs and euro Golf R wagon rear springs, and used 034 top mounts in the rear and the front mounts that add 1.4 degrees negative camber. This was a nice improvement over stock and certainly was fun! I Always wanted GTI plaid seats, so when I found someone selling some an hour away from me, I snatched them up. They were super easy to install which was nice, except for the rear seat backs, which I haven't done yet as I've been contemplating if I want to find a way to keep the remote releases or not. Also installed a 328mm Stoptech kit, wow what a difference over the stock brakes!
The car was as described above for awhile with no changes, save for (I can't recall who makes it..) one of the kits that is supposed to stiffen up the rear subframe which I installed last year, and recently a Golf R rear diffuser, soon to add Magnaflow 14416 mufflers and some quad tips.
Just recently I decided that I wanted some better suspension as the Koni's kinda fell apart when driven hard, so...
The Bilsteins were pretty easy to install, and after a bit of fiddling ended up with about 2 fingers of gap between the tire and fender all around, and that was set to the highest! A touch lower than I wanted... but it will have to work! Installed at the same time was the Eurosport front strut brace.
Here’s how it sits now.
My car is a 2019 Golf S Sportwagon 4motion with a manual that I bought new July 2019, I've now got just shy of 45k on it.
I don't have a whole lot of photo's of it, from when I got it till now, but here's a run down of what I've done so far (that i
Within a month of buying it, I got a APR Stage 1 tune for 87 octane, shortly after for a used 034 Motorsports P34 intake, used 034 Motorsports rear swaybar, and used 18" bronze Neuspeed RSE10's. After driving it like that for awhile and a lot of commuting, I eventually got some Koni Special Actives and Golf R hatch front springs and euro Golf R wagon rear springs, and used 034 top mounts in the rear and the front mounts that add 1.4 degrees negative camber. This was a nice improvement over stock and certainly was fun! I Always wanted GTI plaid seats, so when I found someone selling some an hour away from me, I snatched them up. They were super easy to install which was nice, except for the rear seat backs, which I haven't done yet as I've been contemplating if I want to find a way to keep the remote releases or not. Also installed a 328mm Stoptech kit, wow what a difference over the stock brakes!
The car was as described above for awhile with no changes, save for (I can't recall who makes it..) one of the kits that is supposed to stiffen up the rear subframe which I installed last year, and recently a Golf R rear diffuser, soon to add Magnaflow 14416 mufflers and some quad tips.
Just recently I decided that I wanted some better suspension as the Koni's kinda fell apart when driven hard, so...
The Bilsteins were pretty easy to install, and after a bit of fiddling ended up with about 2 fingers of gap between the tire and fender all around, and that was set to the highest! A touch lower than I wanted... but it will have to work! Installed at the same time was the Eurosport front strut brace.
Here’s how it sits now.