Take it from Jaws, he had a K04 in his car. If you could go back in time and save your money for a more worthy upgrade, would you have?

 

Actually, your tip is going to be slaughtered by the K04 more than it would by, say, a GT28RS.

The K04 slams your tip with torque (which happens to be a limitation on the tiptronic transmissions) in the low-end RPM range, whereas the GT28RS will keep you in the safe zone by flooding you with horsepower for the mid/top range (depending on your trim and a/r)

 

funny thing is my cars not tip at all, its a 97, i think 98 and up were tip, same with passats

 

Oh, well in that case your transmission will fall out of your car if you put a K04 in. Don't overload your tranny with that much torque, unless you want a turbocharger that's of even less use than the stock.

Seriously, you can get away with something like a GT2X elim series if you're worried about not being able to handle a "real" turbo.

 

is that also why tooextreme8813 can run a BT? not run into problems?

 

my tranny will do what? has anyone on here run a K04 on a 97 auto before and had that happen? ill have to look into the 2x elim alittle more then

 

Are you talking about me? I don't know anyone on here who's name is Jaws. lol

And if I could do it all over again, I would have gone BT. The torque the K04 makes is just ridiculous! It's fun to just hammer it but within 1000RPM's it feels pretty much like stock. Not really worth it IMHO.

And yes, the reason tooextreme8813 didn't have problems was because he was making a lot of HP but not so much torque.

Josh

 

so am i better off with a k03-s than a k04? reason im asking is cause i need to replace my turbo...

 

Yes. You will do just fine with a bigger turbo than you will with a K04, because of where the power bands are, and where an automatic has limitations. In this case, it's torque; and the K04 happens to be right in the torque+++ range.

 

so the k04 is strong only in 1st and 2nd and your BT's are stronger into 3rd 4th and taper off into 5 th? or am i wrong?