So you never asked what bolt ons the car i was talking about has then no
I was hardly gonna add headwork in the bolt ons list was I.
And freak from the factory i.e just makes more than every other engine with the same mods and can advance the timing without race fuel or meth where others in a similar spec just carnt.
Well you said you had a car that makes 380 bhp.
I asked you what the car had on, and you said ...." everything"
Now if "everything" in your book is a pipe with a filter and another pipe
with a catalyst...you are reading the wrong book...
I said the K04 can make 400 bhp, and that means stage 2+ also.
We have many Cupras that can do that here.You'll say it's the
dyno ?Well it could be, but that could also be the case with your "freak" engine (or is it freak dyno)..
One thing you fail to consider when dishing the cams and head work as "non bolt-ons" is the fact you CAN'T have a BT car without rods, and in some cases pistons too.That actually means that if you want to go BT,
you HAVE to do the same exact work as installing cams and head work, cause the only difference between the two is THE COST.The manual labor is pretty much the same, since those will have to be removed to install rods ANYWAY...So you see..."Bolt-ons" is a very general word...
And don't forget also that the above work "prepares" your car for any type of turbo without any more hassle.You wanna throw the K04 in the garbage ?
Just get a new turbo and you are done.
Finally i don't know what other people think, but for me going above 400 bhp on a FWD car and 50 kg or torque, is stressing it already....