Quote:
Originally Posted by CleanNeon98
Friend of mine is lookin into both cars and asked me for some advice, im a VW newb so posting here.
He is looking at the 1.8t jetta and GTI.
Main concern is the motor. They are both using the 180 horsepower motors (jetta is not the GLI). I am going on what he said I dont know the difference between the two.
He is wondering if its the same motor?? I personally know people pushing 15-20psi on the stock motors on the GTI, but he wants to do the same without shelling out the cash for the GTI/GLI by just getting a regular 1.8t and working that instead.
Are they the same motor? Are his figured for mod potential accurate?
|
First of all, the people pushing that much boost are doing so with chips, which cost around 500 bucks. ALL 1.8t's have an engine code: AWP is the 180HP version from 2002. Look on forums.vwvortex.com for more info.
The engine, if it is the same code, will be the same. The GTI and Jetta 1.8t both have the same engine and trans WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE GTI 337 AND 20TH AE EDITIONS AND 2004.5 JETTA GLI's. (They came with the 02m 6 speed trans from the 24v VR6.)
In short, anything with an AWP engine code will be 180 (crank) HP, jetta or gti.
PS I'd say 2 door GTI, it's lighter.