This 360BHP Golf R *LAUNCHES HARD* 💨😈

Welcome back to the channel everybody, today we've got a Golf R behind me running 360bhp, it's a stage 1, we've got the owner next to me Kyle, and yeah guys stay tuned because this one's gonna be mad. Alright guys, so we're out in the Golf R, yeah it's a bit of a mad one still, stage 1, running 360bhp, yeah it's really really nice man. Thank you. How long have you had it? So I got it in December, so yeah I've just had it literally under a year now, but I've been planning to do more things to it than I have, but lockdown and all that's been slowing the progress down. Yeah the world's going crazy right now. I've actually had this car on my ramp for a Geo, so yeah I've met Kyle a while back now. Yeah, a few months. Yeah, but apart from that, yeah, how are you finding it man? I'm loving it, the only thing, jumping from a 320d to this. Oh really? Fuel cost. Okay, yeah obviously diesel like. Yeah exactly, yeah. Do you travel, is it your daily then? So it is, but because I've been working from home for the last year, so I don't really drive it that much. Okay that's better then. Yeah exactly, I think if I had to drive it daily I'd rather get a daily car, this is for the weekend. Yeah definitely, of course. So, to get it to a stage 1 running 360bhp, what did you have to do to it? The stage 1 is literally just a ECU tune, got a DSG gear, sorry a DSG map as well, just to complement it, better shifting for the higher power. And the exhaust work, have you done anything? Yes I've got res delete, back box delete, I've just got it on a stock exhaust for now, I just cut it out from there and I'm looking to get an exhaust, like a full exhaust through, because I'm looking to stage 2 it, get a decat as well. And what does stage 2 bring these up to? Stage 2 can bring them around, I'd say 390 to 410, from what I've heard, it just depends on the tuner and the car really. Okay, that's nice man, I've never actually launched one of these. Have you not? No. Today will be your first time. Yeah that's it, and what's it like on launch? Aggressive, very. Gets to 60 quick yeah? Yeah yeah. Yeah nice. So have you actually been a passenger in your own car? Only with my girlfriend, which she's not going to drive it how I drive it, so I haven't really had a proper driver in a passenger seat, so it'll be fun. Alright cool, you get to see today what the car's like. Yeah exactly. It feels mad in a passenger seat, honestly man, when I went on Officially Gassed's channel, I was just melting in my chair, I was like oh no. It just feels like 10 times faster man. Yeah exactly. You ain't got nothing to hold on to, you're just sitting there. I've got this little safety thing down here. That's mad. What have you done for suspension work, have you just lowered it with springs? So yeah, so far I've lowered it with H&R springs, 25mm all round. I feel it handles a lot better. It does, it almost looks a lot better as well because originally they've got a massive arch gap in it. And the wheels are really tucked in so I've got like 15mm front and back to fill the arch gap. Oh you've got the wheel spacers yeah? Yeah because it just sits in and doesn't look, it doesn't have a good road presence. Yeah now it's the, I don't know what you mean, the arch gap's filled so it looks chunkier. Brakes, you said you wanted to do an upgrade to the brakes? So yeah, obviously before I had this Golf I wasn't really into, I didn't really know much about the performance so I just thought let me get some Brembo's and chuck it on, but they're not doing too well and they've walked already so I think I'm going to get some proper ones next. Yeah yeah that's the thing, these cars they suffer with a lot, because it's auto, you're consistently on the brakes, so they walk fast innit, like obviously like you said you want to get drilled and grooved. Yeah better cool them. And they'll just cool them straight down. Picks up quick innit? Yeah. What have you done to the exterior? I see you've got like a rear diffuser and stuff. Yeah so I bought it with the side skirts and splitter, I got the diffuser on, the only thing is with the new diffuser it makes the exhaust look small, the stock exhaust. Yeah I saw that, yeah it's like the exhaust is sitting in. Yeah so you can't really see it, so that's why I want to get a new back end, like a new exhaust system just to make it look more aggressive really because you can't see it. Yeah with your new exhaust whoever's going to put it on or if you get one custom made they can bring the tips. Yeah exactly. Like level with the diffuser. And the wheels, what are the wheels that you're running? So it's 19 inch Pretorias, I bought it with them, they initially came with rubbish tyres which I found out the hard way, I need better ones. Yeah you got Pierce 4S's or whatever. Yeah I had to. How you finding them? They're amazing, compared to rubber tyres absolutely good. Yeah good choice, good choice. So Kyle what future mods have you got planned for the car? So I want to, I want to get stage two definitely next year. I was going to do it this year but obviously with lockdown I didn't get around to doing it. But yeah I want to get intercooler, air intake, d-cap and then obviously bigger brakes and then that should get me to stage two with a good map. That's it, do you not want to run like a methanol kit or something like that? I do but I'm trying to take it slowly at the minute. Yeah that's it, step by step the thing is right, if you jump straight into like big mods you kind of get bored fast. Yeah. So if you kind of build up to it like stage one, stage two, possibly stage three later on, you get to see the benefits of each one. Yeah otherwise you just slap, slap bang, 500 brake. You don't know what you've missed. Yeah you get bored. Pops and bangs. Yeah it's scary being passenger I can't lie. Really? Yeah. I like these like extended gear shifter paddles man, you can't miss it. You know originally they're tiny. Yeah and I don't know why Volkswagen just miss out on things like they have silver trim etc. It's like little paddles, not really, like considering it's their sports car it's not. Yeah it's true, yeah I see that you upgraded your silver trims to black. Yeah got that de-chromed. That's jerks, it's like a little gunshot. Yeah it's good going down London with it, make some noise. Really, really smooth power. Yeah. And really like consistently gets faster up the revs. Yeah that's why I prefer manual because if you have it in auto sport, like if you're say gear two, maybe doing like 30 seconds, you kick down to gear one so it's quite jerky. Yeah it's too harsh. Yeah. Alright guys, Kyle's letting me launch his Golf R. Hopefully it all goes well. He's launched it a few times so he wants to experience what it's like as a passenger. So yeah, so literally Kyle what, foot down yeah? Yeah, brake, accelerate, let go of the brake when you're ready. Accelerate. That was alright man, that proper went. I've never felt that before. Oi seriously man, that was just 0-60 like mad fast. I think stage one, the rough figure for it is like 3.7 if I'm correct. Felt quick man. I hope you guys can hear this yeah. Gunshots. It's nice because they're not too loud. Nah yeah. They're just subtle. I feel like when I get the decanter it'll be like on another level. It's a shame that it rubs out man. Yeah I know. You know, it just makes you not want to push it. Yeah exactly that man. It's like you want to drive it fast but it's almost like you can't because rubbing out is no good man. Like crashing out. Yeah exactly. I feel like if this didn't crash out, I could properly have it on the fence but I don't want to like. Because the thing is when it's crashing out it's not doing its job. Yeah and plus it doesn't feel safe as well like when it's almost like hitting the brakes isn't it. Such a fun car to drive though man. Yeah. These are proper pocket rockets. Yeah they take anything you throw at it. You know what it is as well, I think because where the wheels, when you're turning you're going over bumps. Yeah I reckon the clearance is like that. Yeah yeah literally you can't put your finger under the gap I've got. Yeah low life. You know my neck is tired from fighting all these jeeps. You couldn't wake up in the morning like oh man my neck. What's it feel like? Quick. It really is. That was good good driving there. Gets my heart going. What's it like as a passenger? Scary. Yeah for a stage one it goes really well. Yeah it does yeah. I can't imagine what this is like on a stage three. I reckon it's just an absolute rocket man. Well I've got a guy who's got a stage three Golf. I think he's pushing like 600. He takes on Lambos and I can only imagine how quick. I rate that. Whoever's got that stage three, I rate that. Smoking Lambos in a Golf R man. Those people must, that guy with the Lambo must want to cry man. Yeah I know exactly. Fireball. Hey all right I smoked a Lambo in my S15. I think I've seen that video. Yeah and the guy was so shocked man. He kept on coming back like we had like six races and he could not beat me. He just wanted to cry. Yeah I know what you're saying about the brake judder. You can feel it with the pedal. So they do their job. They just heat up quick. Yeah that's correct. Yeah I mean they stop well. It's just as soon as they get heated you get that issue that you were saying. But the Gio is on point. I'm not gonna lie man. I feel really confident driving the car. Yeah. All right guys we're gonna end the video there. I hope you enjoyed the Golf R. Thank you Kyle for letting me drive your car man. It was an absolute pleasure to be driving this. Yeah I'm really surprised man. I've never launched a Golf R guys and when I say to you this thing launches hard before you know you're doing like X amount of speed in it. So yeah dangerous. Yeah um but yeah honestly thank you for bringing the car on the channel. No worries. And I hope you guys uh like the video. Don't forget to like, share and subscribe. From me and Kyle we're out. See you later. See you later.