mrew42 Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 Just introducing myself, and I know it's not a proper R but bear with me.... Last month I had a day out to Milton Keynes, courtesy of Awesome GTI and Racingline to take part in a Beta test for the EA888 Gen4 245PS engine on my Allspace. I found out about the Beta test through Awesome GTI's Youtube channel so reached out to Tabby who put me in touch with Ben, at Racingline. The EA888 gen 4 in 245PS guise is used in the Golf GTi, Octavia & Kodiaq vRS, Tarraco FR yada yada yada, but the team at Racingline seemed particularly keen on my offer to Beta Test the Allspace. Raclingline aren't a 'Retail' concern, their business to business model (including corporate events) means that the Milton Keynes facility is basically a warehouse of 'stuff' and tucked away at the back is a Dyno for Ben to 'play' with. I handed over the keys at 11 am and using a loan Golf took the missus shopping to Centre:MK. 3 hours later I got a call to say all was done, which was handy 'cos so was my wallet When we got back to HQ, Ben asked me to take it for a spin and give it some beans to let him know my thoughts and then talk through the numbers. Immediately the the pick up was amazing, better in fact than a 450HP Mk7 Golf R I've driven previously. Amazing amounts of torque. Not forgetting that this is a Mega Bus and not a little sports car, chucking it into bends wasn't the main aim. But overtaking and powerful luxury motoring are the name of the game here. I felt as excited on this drive as I was when I first collected it back in June from JCB Medway having come from a 2.0 TDI 150 Tig. Back (again) at HQ to look at the numbers. PS BHP KW NM lbs/ft VW stats 245 241 180 370 273 Stock Dyno 258 255 190 400 295 Stage 1 Dyno 339 335 250 506 373 Of course the figures above don't tell the whole story without the graph Suffice to say I was amazed at the figures. Ben was really pleased too and his lead engineer even came in to check it out on his day off. And I mentioned in another thread about the DSG. This car comes with a DQ381-7A , not the usual DQ500 Looking about the Tinterweb 600Nm is the max for this box, so no worries there. I can thoroughly recommend Racingline though. A brilliant bunch of super enthusiastic chaps. I'll be keeping in touch with Ben as they were interested in trying some other Stage 2 mods in the future, which I again offered my car for That and obviously feedback on continued drivability etc. Racingline have now formally released the Stage 1 Tune to it's supplier network. For anyone interested there's much more detail here racingline I 2.0 TSI EA888.4 OEM+ TUNING SOFTWARE Racingline's new OEM+ Performance Tuning Software for Golf Mk8 GTI, Octavia vRS IV, Cupra Leon 245, Cupra Formentor 245 & others with 2.0 TSI EA888.4 Gen 4 (Garrett turbo). www.racingline.com P.S. anyone with an R who wants to go even Madder! - Stage 1 with this combo gives 405PS & 520Nm racingline I EA888.4 OEM+ TUNING SOFTWARE Racingline's new OEM+ Performance Tuning Software for Golf Mk8 R & GTI Clubsport, Audi S3 8y, Cupra Leon 300, Cupra Formentor 310 with 2.0 TSI EA888.4 Gen 4 (Continental turbo). www.racingline.com Note this is specifically for the EA888.4, though they do have tunes for all other 2.0 motors (inc Diesel) No, I don't work for them, but as they've been so good to me i thought i'd return the favour. Cheers Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrew42 Posted December 22, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) https://www.facebook.com/VolkswagenRacingUK/posts/5603082086466321 Edited December 22, 2022 by mrew42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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