I know you're a big Awesome and APR fan Ian, I'm just reading the figures off the respective sites. Quality-wise yes APR are very good, but they are also very expensive too.
On their site it says anything more than 380ish requires uprated internals, well it actually says if your going to use higher octane fuel the interansl will need uprating!
I forgot this thread is for the 2.0TFSI
Rob it's bit like your preference for Star Perfomance! Have they stopped running the Eliminator kits?? Awesome has stopped selling them. I thought Jim at Star was back selling Millford Micro systems software?? ie Geoff Everett ex AmD?
As for APR kit the only reason I waited for the 'kit' was the reviews in the US and on Vortex and reference to the quality made by other tuning companies including Garrett who assisted APR.
I priced up all of the European 'complete' kits and apart from Jabba's IHI kit's were alot more expensive and some of which were using older turbo technology.
I priced up Sportec, MTM and ABT kit's all of which were in the region of £10k fitted!! Another benefit overlooked with the APR kit is the switchable performance and fuel programs on stage 3. You can use normal U/L to Race fuel on prog 4.
Ian
Easy Ian, didn't mean anything by it, APR have always been better quality than ATP but are also alot more expensive too. I like APR stuff but APR have ignored the RHD market for such a long time, they couldn't care less about the UK. Star dropped them because of this (I think).
Jim doesn't do the FWD GTRS and GT2871R Elims anymore due to the inlet issues, still does the FWD GT2X and Quattro Elims though. He does GIAC and VF stuff now too, plus his own custom mapping. He has the 2.0TFSi GIAC/VF 340bhp kit for his Leon now.
In the last year I've been up to Star twice, once for a dyno run and once to have a Piper exhaust fitted, that's it!
dyno lottery anyone? place ya bets.
The 1.8T APR Stage III+ kit for the 1.8T 225 engine is rated to 396bhp and 360lbft on stock rods, so maybe the 2.0TFSi can handle it ... who knows!