Golf 2.0 Gti 115bhp, Mk4

[WillAtkinson]

I am wondering if it is possible/worthwhile to get my golf chipped.
It is a bit cumbersome.

I am also curious about why the 2.0 litre is only 115bhp when the 1.8 GTI is 150 bhp....??

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
Will

[Aerofoil]

1.8 has a turbo.

[Yugguy]

Isn't the 2.0 litre one an 8 valve as well? No offence but how Golf had the gall to call that a GTI I dunno.

[egomeister]

Only 115bhp from a 2.0 and they call it a gti!! I never realised they had that little power...

Not sure how much a chip will gain you on a non-turbo engine.

[Yugguy]

Aye,my advice would be to flog a golf. heheh thats a palindrome

[steve bowen]

When i was young and had zero car tuning experience I had an Audi 80E 2.0 Avant, it had the identical engine, 115bhp 8 valve 2litre as the golf gti. I got it remapped by AMD, went up to 125 bhp,.... I could notice no difference at all in performance it did make it drive a bit more smoothly though.

Basically remaps are for turbos where you up the boost at the same time.

If your still interested AMD :-

www.amdtechnik.com/contact.cfm

[choppers]

I believe the 2.0 GTI was only branded a GTI in the UK - everywhere else it was just bardged as a 2ltr. MY advice would be to sell it and either get the 180bhp GTI, or get a Seat Ibiza cupra (same engine as the turbo charged Golf, but lighter), then take it to AMD for a chip & exhaust, it should then be pusing out about 180bhp approx

[zcacogp]

Terrible, terrible, terrible engines. Same unit as used in the Mk3 8v GTi. (Interestingly, they started using the 20v 1.8 N/A unit for the first Mk4 GTi's, but then changed to the unit used in the Mk3.)

Really, your best option is to flog it and buy something with more power. You will spend A LOT of getting a little more power out of that thing, whereas you could spend only a little more and get a lot more power from a 1.8t. (Or LCR or Audi A3 or whatever.)


Oli.

[chrisx666]

I have to agree with the guys above Will, you need to get hold of something with a 1.8T - even the 150hp version is 'night and day' better to drive than the 2.0NA.