Have had the Golf VR6 for a while now, but its getting a bit long in the tooth, has been a fun car to own, but I never really did like the FWD. Ideally I'd like to move onto a MKIV R32 but I simply can't justify the cost. Which has brought me to the Bora 4Motion. My VR6 goes fairly hard (intake, exhaust, chip, koni/eibach) and I would want the Bora to go harder and handle better. I haven't actually driven one yet (test driving a couple this weekend) and don;'t know how they compare to the VR6 stock for stock. Any opinions???

What kind of gains could I expect from exhaust (prolly just cat-back, maybe Milltek), CAI, and cams (Techtonic) with dedicated chip? I would also fit some kind of suspension, maybe KW V2s or Bilstein PSS.

How much do you think I would expect to pay for the above? (Ive found prices of US$700 for the cams, US$700 for the exhaust, US$400 for a Giac cam chip, US$1400 for KW V2, US$1000 for Bilstein PSS, US$970 for Koni coilovers, but have no idea what postage would cost for any of this).

Depending on the price I get the car for, I would look at budgeting around $3-5k for mods.

Almost forgot, I would be pretty keen on getting the Haldex modification to turn it into more of a rear driver/oversteerer, I think there was a recent group buy with a price around AUD$1000.