Sup fellow groupies. I'm new to this forum and was hoping this was the best way to get advice for my B5. I love power and speed with the ability to look good at the same time. So my first question... what should be the first thing I do to get a little extra power. I dont need a lot but something to get me off the line a little quicker. Money is tight so any "frugal" ways would help. Thanks for your help... Anyone in SoCal or NorCal?

 

apr giac chip will bost you to 210hp! the best and cheapest upgrade and the biggest boost in power is chip

 

Welcome.

It helps everyone if you put info about your car in your signature, like the year, engine, tranny, any mods, etc. Plenty of guys from Cali on here, we can't seem to get them to leave

 

Sorry. I thought if I put B-5 that it would be easy. Lol Its a '98 1.8T A4 (non-Quattro). Everything is stock.

 

No worries, its just that there are so many different flavors of B5, it helps to have a little more info. Andrew's right, a chip is the way to go. Its easiest if you've got a place local to you so you don't have to ship your ECU off somewhere, but even thats only a 3 day affair. With a few reasonably priced supporting mods, you can have a fun but still very reliable daily driver!

Now post some pics!

 

First things first, save up a boat load of money for maintenance, and the occassional thing that breaks. Once you've accumulated said money, (this will take a long time, since every time you save a little, something else will break), start saving for mods. If at any time you find that your maintenance and repairs doesn't rip into your mod savings, then a chip and DV are your first and most important mod. After all, what's the point of a nicely modded car if you can't drive it at all?

 

San Francisco here. I took a trip to Pismo Beach for the first time last summer since my gf has a house down there. Decided to take a drive on the beach for the hell of it and had to get pulled out. Fun times!

 

this^

 

Yeah, sorry about that... If you refer to my recently started thread "My hands have failed me" you can see that I'm a little peeved at my mistress right now... which, in the end, actually make this good advice.