adjat84th
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The suspect :
The car has been tuned almost since purchase, and within three months I had a downpipe on with a resonator and dual exit through a GTI valence. Very pleased with the look and the sound has grown on me.
I got up with Andrew (2micron) about a CP3 upgrade, and after waiting a couple months for everything to line up with pieces to the kit I have it installed along with a 1micron filter upgrade that he made up that replaces the stock filter entirely. 100k mile change intervals at half the cost of 20k interval OEM filter sounds pretty nice to me! The CP3 is an R70 version similar to his MK6 kits as well with just a couple small differences.
During the install of the CP3, I had already picked up a Fluidampr in preparation of a clutch upgrade with SMF. For fun, I went ahead and installed that even though the clutch was yet to come. Once I was tuned with this car, I could get DMF shudder in 5th and 6th gears under 2k RPMs..I just drove around it. Well, wouldn't you know that the Fluidampr actually made that disappear completely! A fluidampr on a MK7 will need the lower timing cover trimmed and sanded as there is a ridge on the cover that the stock pulley rides over but the fluidampr was rubbing. The stock pulley is super light, has practically no rubber, and basically leaves you to believe that VW left all the torsional vibration duties to the DMF.
DC Stage 3 clutch is what I opted for with a 17lb SMF. I was initially hesitant on that light of a flywheel, but it has been great so far. Total weight of stock DMF/clutch disk/pressure plate is 39lbs whereas this setup is 30lbs plus the extra weight of the fluidampr and LSD almost evens out back out. I'll have the fluidampr, a sprung (silent) clutch disk, and I'll be using Redline lightweight shockproof gear oil (now running OEM fluid instead) in hopes that synchros last. I really enjoy how quiet the car is, so crossing my fingers that it remains tolerable compared to my Jetta that has no silent clutch disc and rattles like crazy. Goodies ready to install!
I've currently got the transmission off the car and installing a Peloquin "high-torque" LSD. The subframe doesn't have to come down to remove the 02Q, but it sure as hell would make things a ton easier! Reading Matt Whitbread's LSD install thread, the case splitting apart with "just a rubber mallet" made me laugh after all that I went through to get this thing apart. After my first attempt failed and left a permanent reminder of what not to do, I came up with a simple way to get the case seal broken using just a bolt and nut! After that, you still have to get the input shaft bearing out of the case which requires some tapping of a dead blow hammer.
Leading up to this work, I went ahead and purchased steel shift forks with bronze sliders from darkside in the likely event I had brass forks inside the case. I am happy to report, that in this MK7 02Q (PFN), it has ALL steel forks with updated plastic sliders. We'll see how they hold up!
My plan is to have the clutch broken in by the time I get my turbo from Ryan at Darkside. I asked him to look at options for fitting a GTD2060vz to my car, but this turbo in testing had boost creep issues. The CR190 (GTD1449vz) turbo on the Euro GTD has similar issues and Malone tuning no longer suggests this turbo for "Stage 3".
So the plan has shifted to the GTD1752vrk kit that they offer.

The car has been tuned almost since purchase, and within three months I had a downpipe on with a resonator and dual exit through a GTI valence. Very pleased with the look and the sound has grown on me.

I got up with Andrew (2micron) about a CP3 upgrade, and after waiting a couple months for everything to line up with pieces to the kit I have it installed along with a 1micron filter upgrade that he made up that replaces the stock filter entirely. 100k mile change intervals at half the cost of 20k interval OEM filter sounds pretty nice to me! The CP3 is an R70 version similar to his MK6 kits as well with just a couple small differences.

During the install of the CP3, I had already picked up a Fluidampr in preparation of a clutch upgrade with SMF. For fun, I went ahead and installed that even though the clutch was yet to come. Once I was tuned with this car, I could get DMF shudder in 5th and 6th gears under 2k RPMs..I just drove around it. Well, wouldn't you know that the Fluidampr actually made that disappear completely! A fluidampr on a MK7 will need the lower timing cover trimmed and sanded as there is a ridge on the cover that the stock pulley rides over but the fluidampr was rubbing. The stock pulley is super light, has practically no rubber, and basically leaves you to believe that VW left all the torsional vibration duties to the DMF.
DC Stage 3 clutch is what I opted for with a 17lb SMF. I was initially hesitant on that light of a flywheel, but it has been great so far. Total weight of stock DMF/clutch disk/pressure plate is 39lbs whereas this setup is 30lbs plus the extra weight of the fluidampr and LSD almost evens out back out. I'll have the fluidampr, a sprung (silent) clutch disk, and I'll be using Redline lightweight shockproof gear oil (now running OEM fluid instead) in hopes that synchros last. I really enjoy how quiet the car is, so crossing my fingers that it remains tolerable compared to my Jetta that has no silent clutch disc and rattles like crazy. Goodies ready to install!

I've currently got the transmission off the car and installing a Peloquin "high-torque" LSD. The subframe doesn't have to come down to remove the 02Q, but it sure as hell would make things a ton easier! Reading Matt Whitbread's LSD install thread, the case splitting apart with "just a rubber mallet" made me laugh after all that I went through to get this thing apart. After my first attempt failed and left a permanent reminder of what not to do, I came up with a simple way to get the case seal broken using just a bolt and nut! After that, you still have to get the input shaft bearing out of the case which requires some tapping of a dead blow hammer.


Leading up to this work, I went ahead and purchased steel shift forks with bronze sliders from darkside in the likely event I had brass forks inside the case. I am happy to report, that in this MK7 02Q (PFN), it has ALL steel forks with updated plastic sliders. We'll see how they hold up!



My plan is to have the clutch broken in by the time I get my turbo from Ryan at Darkside. I asked him to look at options for fitting a GTD2060vz to my car, but this turbo in testing had boost creep issues. The CR190 (GTD1449vz) turbo on the Euro GTD has similar issues and Malone tuning no longer suggests this turbo for "Stage 3".
So the plan has shifted to the GTD1752vrk kit that they offer.
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