Should I upgrade my exhaust?

[JK8]

Dude you could blaze an M3 in a Tazz with the right mods... once.
Directly therafter you have scrap metal where seconds ago you had a car (kind of.)

Just keep your car original, if you want a race car then get one - a Polo is not that which is why it looks so ridiculous when people try to mod them as such.

You obviously know nothing about the Polo Gti.

 

[Vegeta]

LOL cars are just right the way the manufacturer intended it to be. Perfect balance between performance, reliability, fuel consumption and comfort. Why shift that balance?

The manufacturer designed the car to be pleasing to the eye, a little sporty a little familiar. Change that and your car looks strange and ackward. Change the performance and you dont have reliable motoring not that VW's are know for their reliability. Noise, the manufacturer designed the car to make the right amount of noise not too loud as to drive you insane and not to dull as to sound like a mom's taxi.

 

[JK8]

LOL cars are just right the way the manufacturer intended it to be. Perfect balance between performance, reliability, fuel consumption and comfort. Why shift that balance?

The manufacturer designed the car to be pleasing to the eye, a little sporty a little familiar. Change that and your car looks strange and ackward. Change the performance and you dont have reliable motoring not that VW's are know for their reliability. Noise, the manufacturer designed the car to make the right amount of noise not too loud as to drive you insane and not to dull as to sound like a mom's taxi.

You obviously know nothing about the Polo Gti!

Lol really.
To be honest its badly put together by VW. Not in terms of workmanship, just certain parts they used.
The air intake from the Seat and 132kw kills the turbo lag in the Polo... why didnt VW put it in the first place!! Its R300!
The handling and braking is not upto scratch compared to the power to weight ratio... Seat or aftermarket bushes improve handling upto 80% and it costs R100 each and maybe R300 labour... why didnt they do this?
Otherwise the car is almost perfect!! Just add a sports chip!
Now the cosmetics.
PGTis dont have honey comb grills in the lower bumper like the MK5 GTi, why not? I dont know it looks awesome with those grills, rounds up the front nicely. It has plastic pillars, why not gloss pillars like they have overseas? Dont know that either...
Theres alot VW didnt add on the standard model.
I dont like big bumper aftermarket accessories.
Sticking to OEM parts, Seat Cupra, Audi A3/TT, MK5 Gti and other OEM VW parts to make it look different.
The PGTi is not a complete car, small little differences give makes a huge difference.
regarding the exhaust, I have an idea of what to do now

 

[Pornolio]

Yea I must agree with SlinkyMike and the other people opposed to fiddling with the car. It always makes me laugh when I see a Uno or golf modded with big fat exhausts. They end up fitting branches, freeflow's, airbox mods etc etc etc, to gain the performance to compete with a bigger version of the car, but yet if they ended up just buying the uprated model it would have been cheaper.

Modded cars with fat exhausts and tinted windows imo just devaluates the car. When I was shopping for a car and went shopping around, nothing made me run away faster than seeing a car with tinted windows or fat exhaust pipe fitted. It just looks common. It starts with a exhaust, then the tinted windows follow, then the banner in the back window "When days are dark, Friends are few" and before you know it, then neon lights underneath the car.

But like SlinkyMike said... we need those cars to make us chuckle once in a while.

 

[Pitbull]

Lol really.
To be honest its badly put together by VW.

This alone covers all VW's and why you keep on buying one is completely beyond my reasoning . You could have just bought a Civic R and didn't then need to mod anything....

VW drivers are all the same (I know I owned a Polo and had the Polotec conversion done and all the bells and whistles. But I learned my lesson, unlike other people

 

[JK8]

This alone covers all VW's and why you keep on buying one is completely beyond my reasoning . You could have just bought a Civic R and didn't then need to mod anything....

VW drivers are all the same (I know I owned a Polo and had the Polotec conversion done and all the bells and whistles. But I learned my lesson, unlike other people

2.0 Polo tech lol... Why buy a car modded by VW themselves and even worst by SAC hehehehe...
It was powerful back in the day...

Type R is slow but fun to drive.
Besides I think it looks ugly lol! Dont like those "look at me" cars and the Type R guys are fixing a few things, but they all a waste, Honda made that car to their spec, if you tweak it you just going to mess it up.

I like to modify cars, guess some like it and some dont...

 

[Pitbull]

2.0 Polo tech lol... Why buy a car modded by VW themselves and even worst by SAC hehehehe...
It was powerful back in the day...

Type R is slow but fun to drive.
Besides I think it looks ugly lol! Dont like those "look at me" cars and the Type R guys are fixing a few things, but they all a waste, Honda made that car to their spec, if you tweak it you just going to mess it up.

I like to modify cars, guess some like it and some dont...

That is a mostly exclusively a VW thing though.

Let's be honest, they are just about the only cars that needs to be fixed from their factory mistakes

 

[SlinkyMike]

LOL cars are just right the way the manufacturer intended it to be. Perfect balance between performance, reliability, fuel consumption and comfort. Why shift that balance?

The manufacturer designed the car to be pleasing to the eye, a little sporty a little familiar. Change that and your car looks strange and ackward. Change the performance and you dont have reliable motoring not that VW's are know for their reliability. Noise, the manufacturer designed the car to make the right amount of noise not too loud as to drive you insane and not to dull as to sound like a mom's taxi.

This is more or less what I was getting at... your car will suffer either in longevity or relaibility - maybe both. If you want a performance car you should buy one. A Polo/Polo Gti/PoLo gTi... whatever you want to call it is not one.
Modding it to perform like one will damage it and even your fairly innocuous exhaust mod will lower its resale value - maybe thats not directly a concern of yours but you owe it to yourself to wonder why that might be...hmmmm?

On the subject of how funny the world outside of Chatsworth finds modded lower to midmarket cars: I was simply trying to let you in on the joke, if you insist on being the butt of it then thats your choice.

BTW:

Dont like those "look at me" cars ...

...huh? what exactly do you think the effect will be of attaching the muffler from a V12 Mustang on your Polo?

 

[xrapidx]

I think there's a difference between performance modifying and rice modifying.

My car has a completely stock body, with only oem parts - however, I have changed the exhaust, intake, decat and chipped it, purely for performance, yes it has a 110mm exhaust tip at the end of 70mm piping - but thats for performance?

Granted, without the silencers (which I do take out on occasion), its loud, and you can hear me for miles, but again, taking them out increases performances...

I don't pull up next to citi-golf's and rev my engine - I've done this purely for me... and for performance gains. Why should I buy a faster car at four/five times the price when I can modify mine for a third of what it cost to meet the performance of other these cars?

The manufacturers make a good vehicle - that doesn't mean a 3rd party can't improve that design - does it?

 

[SlinkyMike]

I think there's a difference between performance modifying and rice modifying.

My car has a completely stock body, with only oem parts - however, I have changed the exhaust, intake, decat and chipped it, purely for performance, yes it has a 110mm exhaust tip at the end of 70mm piping - but thats for performance?

Granted, without the silencers (which I do take out on occasion), its loud, and you can hear me for miles, but again, taking them out increases performances...

I don't pull up next to citi-golf's and rev my engine - I've done this purely for me... and for performance gains. Why should I buy a faster car at four/five times the price when I can modify mine for a third of what it cost to meet the performance of other these cars?

The manufacturers make a good vehicle - that doesn't mean a 3rd party can't improve that design - does it?

...what do you drive again?

 

[xrapidx]

...what do you drive again?

Honda S2000?

 

[Waaib]

That is a mostly exclusively a VW thing though.

... wait till you move to Cape Town and you'll see it not only VW's. It's Opel Kadetts, Mark I Jetta's, Fiat 100's, Ford Granada's, Nissan Sentra's (both shapes usually with a Skyline sticker on the back) and a few others too.

 

[adamr]

truth is guys with the newer cars they are a lot of regulations that limit motor manufacturers from really creating a car to its true potential, emission laws, etc that is why after market tuners have a field day with modern cars, and if its turbo then the potential grows, ... but slinkymike does make a good point, with mods, the reliability of the car goes down the tube, your car will break if you push it to the limit ...

 

[xrapidx]

That depends on what you do to your vehicle to increase performance, some modifications are actually better for your car, and some won't affect the life span of your engine at all.

 

[JK8]

truth is guys with the newer cars they are a lot of regulations that limit motor manufacturers from really creating a car to its true potential, emission laws, etc that is why after market tuners have a field day with modern cars, and if its turbo then the potential grows, ... but slinkymike does make a good point, with mods, the reliability of the car goes down the tube, your car will break if you push it to the limit ...

Wow so I read your sig...
You got the Porsche?

 

[koeks]

Wow so I read your sig...
You got the Porsche?

yea congrats

 

[Viper25]

The POLO GTI gains considerable amount of HP when tweaked..
Go for it JK8

 

[adamr]

hehe thanks, will post pics . . . Learning it. A different car

 

[xrapidx]

hehe thanks, will post pics . . . Learning it. A different car

I'd seriously abuse the power of a car like that...