I just cant justify paying the hybrid price which is more than the garrets etc (infact even more) for somthing that isnt proven
GTRS is - $1,850.00 (£980) on the ATP website. Dunno if that is incl/excel of any taxes or shipping.
Imolavirus K04 based on a used donor - $1132ish (£600) Shipped to your door.
Imolavirus K04 based on a new donor - $1,880ish (£1000) Shipped to your door.
L&S Cartec K04R €849 (£570).
IHI Vf34 on its own about £1000 from Jabba, cheaper if imported. But a little bird told me once Jabba's IHI aren't standard
GT28RS on its own $1175, GT2871R $1195
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So, I don't know where you went to school Scotty
AFAIK, only a couple of GTRS been fitted, and one of those is DDX's. TBH that looks a bit laggy (stock manifold & dp, personally I think it's the dp -well, as there isn't a manifold to try yet, it would make sense to start there!). Reports of fitment issues on RHD, but Karl said earlier that he'd been assured it would fit. Can't recall any other graphs.
Plenty of GT28RS's and other Garretts fitted, so we can assume they're reliable, if correctly fitted.
Sie has his Imolavirus on, figures look good even if the boost is all over the place. I know of a couple of others fitted, one I think on a BAM engined Mk1 Golf, and another on an S3. Plenty of them fitted on S4s and RS4s, do a search on Audiworld. Never seen figures on either of the 1.8Ts, but it apparently took AMD months to get round to mapping the S3, so the owner pulled it and took it somewhere else; suggests problems or tuner capability issues? The only thing that would put me of is his myspace
K04R was on Casper's old
Ibiza, that was custom mapped (and agressively, IMHO) and was claimed to have 300ps IIRC. Someone I spoke to a while back said that L&S were a very good bunch to deal with.
If you want to hang on to see if Sie's blows up - fine (I'd probably do the same if I were in your shoes
), but don't kid yourself/others that your not doing it because it costs too much. It's a good sound bet, on paper its a very good inbetween for AMK/BAM motors as it looks like it'll run with minimal changes. Like Mitchy says, for the money, it a steal.
Now give me a hand down off my soapbox