Which hot hatch has the best tuning potential?

To be fair, the chap said nothing about purchasing said car in the OP. Are we to assume all threads in here are about buying a car, no one just wants to chat about hot hatches anymore?

Anyway, anything FI pretty much a lot of the VAG TSI jobbies look to tune pretty far. The limiting factor is always going to be FWD apart from 135's and S3.
 
MeEsH BaKkA said:
Sorry I should have been a bit more specific about the golf, I ment the ed30 :)
As the op said he didn't want to mess with turbos so I guess hybrids are out of the question. I would like to know why the meganes are not as tuneable though, my friend has one and wanted to boost his power but there seems to be no real tuners for them, I belive the have a fairly decent size turbo anyway so not to sure why they are not an easy car to boost power on??
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They still reach circa 260 with a remap, it is because the turbo's are small to give it little lag. Tell him to take it to RST in leeds, the only place in the country I trust mine with. When I bought it the map on it was overboosting like hell, one trip there and its running like a dream.

Hybrid, decat and remap on mine makes 276 bhp and over 300 torque :x Handles fine with the LSD. With a forge FMIC and uprated injectors power can be taken to over 300 BHP, which IMO is too much for FWD.
 
DreXeL said:
Where's the fun in that? People don't mod cars as an investment :confused:
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lol damn, and here's hoping the £1200 I've spent over the past few weeks was getting added straight onto the value of my car, at resale, lol.

My car was stock when I bought it in March, after a remap, it was a totally different beast, got a cat back, and race cat stuck on it, had it lowered on eibachs stuck some decent tyres on it, and awaiting fitment of my whiteline ARB's, and awaiting delivery then fitment of a pro alloy intercooler, and a cold air induction system. Next year, will likely be replacement clutch and LSD put in at the same time.

When it comes to sell the car it'll all be stripped off and returned to stock, maybe not the springs, clutch and LSD no real second hand market for them after use, but everything else I should be able to get some money back on, but they're no means an investment.
 
If you've got pockets deep enough a Nissan GTIR would make an excellent fast hatch. Its already fast anyway but a few tweaks will make it very fast - just not for long :D
 
I missed the obvious answer to this thread, fox body Ford Mustang! You don't get much more tuning potential than a 5 litre V8. Available with a hatchback and not FWD either.
 
burns said:
I missed the obvious answer to this thread, fox body Ford Mustang! You don't get much more tuning potential than a 5 litre V8. Available with a hatchback and not FWD either.
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Oh lovely indeed, but I can't really imagine a 21 year old getting insured on one. I've spent the best part of the last year phoning insurers and trying to find ways of getting insurance on a LHD V8 Mustang.
 
Peerzy said:
Oh lovely indeed, but I can't really imagine a 21 year old getting insured on one. I've spent the best part of the last year phoning insurers and trying to find ways of getting insurance on a LHD V8 Mustang.
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I got my Camaro when I was 22, I feel your pain. Adrian fluxes American division did it for me in the end.
 
burns said:
I got my Camaro when I was 22, I feel your pain. Adrian fluxes American division did it for me in the end.
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I've phoned everyone, no one will touch me. 21 and with a budget that'll get me a decent S197 V8 Mustang and no one will even consider insuring me - can't even get crazy quotes :(
 
eatcustard said:
So...

...buy a better faster car in the first place.

Its a Win Win
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What happens if you like 90% of a car, but that remaining 10% just doesn't do it for you? Say you love everything about a car, but the engine needs just a touch more power, or the suspension is a bit soft, but apart from that it's a brilliant car.

Answer : modify it. Tune the engine a bit, change the suspension and you get the car you really want, not the car that VW/Renault/Whatever designed to appeal to the masses.
 
Theres a reason why VW only gave an increase of 10Bhp to their new Golf GTI taking it to 210Bhp and that's because most hot hatches are FWD.

I see remaps taking hot hatches up to and beyond +300Bhp which is rather silly for a FWD car as it results in torque steer and problems getting all that power down as your asking the front wheels to steer and put the power down.

And lets not forget, adding a remap is pretty useless without upgrading the brakes, exhaust system and internals.
 
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