My car already had an AWE S-flo w/hole in airbox, Bailey BPVs, AWE DTS, and GIAC X-chip. I had my car at AWE Tuning to have them install the following:

Stainless Steel Brake Lines
Autospeed Downpipes
AWE Tuning Twin2 Exhaust
APR Snub Mount
APR RS4 Intercoolers
Stasis Fixed Height suspension (450/500)

I got it back this morning and what an absolute SMOOTH animal! It is the kind of fun fast that make you laugh.. until you realize your laughter is becoming a bit maniacal. It is now at the point that the power is so great that I don't really need to utilize all of it to have fun and scare passengers... But I mash the gas anyway I suppose.

The Twin2 exhaust is a nice quiet sound, a big improvement over the custom, ridiculously loud exhaust on the GTI I've been driving. I found myself putting the car is a much higher gear than it should be in, just to hear a loud drone come out of the twin2 -- You have to TRY to make that thing drone, which obviously is great.

The X-chip has really come to life with the exhaust/DP and ICs .. The car pulls so smooth, so powerfully and doesn't give up at all .. Do I really need a rev limiter? .. It doesn't give up any power. The car idles with a nice, powerful sound.

What I was most amazed about was really the smoothness of the whole package. It feels like I am driving a factory Porsche turbo or something along those lines. The car feels so refined, as if this could have been a factory car. If I am up in the higher RPMS on the higher gears, it gives me a chance to really hear the 'brumble' the car makes. Not just the exhaust, but the car's sound and vibrations as a whole. Never intrusive, simply perfect.

I didn't notice too much of a difference having the brake lines in but I'm sure they are something that help under hard braking but aren't felt as much under light braking.

The addition of the snub mount keeps the car under control a lot more than before. The combination of the snub mount and DTS together is completely neccesary in my opinion. They both serve their purposes and keep the car much more polite under shifts.

The suspension I didn't get to test all too much because of mostly highway driving. I did go through a small set of twisties near my work I travel over and the car handled itself with a lot more poise than it ever did with the stock suspension. On a sharp right turn with bumps in the road, the car didn't feel like it was "skipping".. It felt stuck to the ground, and by passing the "bump on a turn" test, it has made me happy with the suspension. On highway or around town driving the car feels very much like stock, but on turns or over bumps at higher speeds, you know it is there and saving your ass.

I was amazed to see how much horsepower and torque I am making at the crank .. I think that holds to be pretty impressive for a Stage 2+.

Thanks to Mike and the rest of the guys at AWE-Tuning for their hard work and service.

Thanks to the following tuners who played a part in my blissful waste of money:

AWE Tuning
Achtuning
APR
Autospeed Performance
Avalon Motorsports
Stasis Engineering

Mark.core™ UK/NJ

Defunct cars:
1985 Ford Bronco, 1990 VW Jetta GL 2dr, 2000 Infiniti G20t, 2000 Audi S4
Current car:
Legs & Feet