Takes me back when I put a bigger turbo on my mk6 Gli. I was acting just like you sending it everywhere laughing in complete disbelief. Volkswagen are hella fun cars that are stupid easy to mod and squeeze power. Glad you chose this platform to build and hand it to someone to enjoy.

watching this series while owning a MK6 GLI is38+ swapped FBO makes me grin ear to ear. Cool to see someone else enjoying Vdubs!

There's two groups of VW owners, the vape kids, and the older dudes like myself (old, AKA, 30 LOL) who aren't obnoxious with the car but realize it's one of the best grocery getting performance oriented economy cars out there.

Evan Shanks X Garand Thumb collab video, the one we didn't even know that we needed.

Evan you’re honestly one of my favorite people man keep up the hard grind

United Motorsport actually had “true flex” way before Integrated Engineering..👍

It always feels like I’m just hanging out with my friend when I watch. Absolutely love the build- Ev

I would get BFI stage 1 engine and trans mounts. It will make the car feel that much better.

Use the paddleshift😬going crazy seeing you using the stick

VW has amazing fun cars to mod and easy only thing lot of people think its too hard to work on, but after working on them for year or more you get the hang of it with all the tricks, yes its annoying but once you work on a couple of them you will see certian things that you would thank the Vdub engineers

JDM owner tries oem+ gti but still hasnt experienced true big turbo gti yet

Had a vw bug w an exhaust..my daughter loved it! Everytime we see a GTI she goes, look daddy it's your dream car 😂🤘 I just say yup ur right 😊 bc she is lol

Is38 isn’t considered “big turbo” in the vw community

You need to race everything you own to this. Make a grid type thing

I really appreciate these vw vids, my dad owned a few sciroccos and a beautiful supercharged G60 corrado that I grew up in ❤️ I may not talk to my dad anymore but I still cherish the memories I have with him and the corrado. Thank you for helping me remember with these absolute sick golf vids!!

You sound just like a vw owner calling the is38 a big turbo 😂

Maybe an idea for a future build ! Turbo Mk4 R32 ? :D

It’s dope seeing how you’re actually enjoying the performance on it! What makes it even better is that you’re scratching the surface on what VWs/Audis can actually do look into an 8V s3 if you still want that German performance after the giveaway 🥳

Evan the car is not ready to be ripped on until oil temps are at 180 F. Usually takes like 10 mins after the engine is up to temp

That gti is gonna look slick in my driveway(: amazing build and love the new content you’ve been putting out with it!

After this giveaway it would be amazing to see an golf r on your garage

Man, unbelievable on how a vw gti be if it’s done properly , I just took mine to get the water pump replaced (mk6 gti) and they messed up the timing on my car, but huge props Evan, definitely love seen what this car potential can be.

I love your videos bro I've been watching for so long!! Keep up the amazing work!

I love how you take the time out to give us a motivating speech in the end of the video

I absolutely love your videos dude, So awesome your giving away that awesome car. I appreciate you, keep going!!

Def loving the GTI content, keep the content coming! 👍

Dude one of the channels that deserves to get to 1 million subscribers, been on this journey with you and your channel for the last 5 years, always been so inspiring band honestly bthe reason I decided to just start my channel regardless 9fbwhat other say 🙌🏽🙏🏽

I just did all this to my mk6!! After waiting I’ll be getting it tommorow. I went complete IE everything also! IE k04 turbo, IE intake manifold with fuel rail, FMIC, kohl (whatever it is) cold air intake, Black Forrest stage 2 engine and tran mounts, spark plugs and the red injector things(it’s slipping my mind their name), stage 2 southbend clutch, short shift kit, full exhaust with resonator/muffler delete and 3” downpipe, new timing chain and metal cover, new main seals, ALL fluids FLUSHED and cleaned out n topped off nice n fresh, diverter valve, and of course the IE tune! 😍 can’t wait till I break In that clutch so I can let her eat 😎

I know what you mean by added difficulty working on these, I've had to invest in several new tools I have never needed in my 35 years wrenching to work on my son's MK6 GTI. Still enjoyable and satisfying to work on. Just did fuel injectors and cleaned the intake runners, amazing how dirty they get on these engines, wonder what they look like on your Mk7? Going to post a video on what we did to ours shortly.

It’s been a couple of weeks since I last seen the GTI. You update this GTI and man does it look amazing. Makes miss my GTI.

You can take it up to 550 whp, to be safe, 500 whp on stock internals. Edit: As long as you have catted downpipe, you won't get cel.

Hey man, I just wanted to say; this my first time seeing your videos, but as a fellow car enthusiast and someone who has also gone through major depression I really appreciate what you're doing. Never stop.

i was never a VW guy myself, until one day mk6 gti suprised me, i was in what i thought was a pretty fast car. i started researching and quickly found out how much power they can make and reliable (mk7) . too much wheelspin for GTI if you plan on modding and i knew i would. ive bought mk7 golf r and i totally understand why people love these cars. they are so sleeper and under the radar which i love about it.

Love the vid Evan , I'm from South Africa and VW is our thing , I'm busy building a 1984 Mk1 Golf pushing 400HP i wanted to make it AWD but after This vid im keeping it FWD

i had IE for my MK6 Golf R. and that thing was straight stupid. especially the antilag. absolutely loved it! keep up the hard work my guy! love the content

The exact opposite happened to me this summer. Raced a g35 sedan and won by a car n a half. My jaw dropped when i passed him in a corner and he wasn't able to catch up til the end.

2006 Mk5 GTI owner. 2.0t BPY. Bought it completely stock with 190,000 miles. Redid timing belt, cam chain and tensioner and the cam follower. K03 got taken out, better bearings, and a hybrid blade set got put in. Audi side mount intercooler upgrade, s3 injectors, hpfp, lpfp, CAI, PCV delete, red tops and double iridiums. I’ve pushed the k03 platform to its limit on pump gas. Only thing I could add is meth injection or e85 at this point. She’s a ripper!! Way better power than a stock k03. Power of k03 but the band of a k04 that doesn’t fall off above 5,000 rpms. It’s a fun $3,000 buy and build budget car. Literally cannot get a better bang for your buck.

Honestly, watching your content is making me appreciate actual JDM classics. The golf is making me want to look into one as a mopar owner

Evan I see that your starting to like the VDub community! That’s wonderful 😜❤️

Awesome built, keep the hard work!

So sick! Watching from Slovenia! 🇸🇮 💥

Get this man to a million already, please. ❤️

Garand thumb intro was wonderful

These words of wisdom at the end man. So true, thanks evan

Seeing my car be what I always wanted it to be 😄😭 miss her so much

Great Video buddy! 😎

i absolutely loved the garand thumb intro please do that more!!

Love watching your videos n the cars r super dope

Just need that proper tire set up ( I run nt555r2 in the front) to avoid that wheel spin for them 🇲🇽 days 😎😎

I would love to see a ski box on that thing. That would look so cool.

Love this garand thumb starts demo Matt did it too

My MK6 GTI made about 500whp on a Garrett GTX2867 on stock trans and engine. Lasted 6 years before I traded the car in. It was so much fun. Best part is everything was direct bolt on. MK7’s have so much more power potential. My next German car will be the Audi R8 with a turbo kit from Iroz or a RS3.

Loving the Volkswagen content 😍😂 keep it coming 😋🇿🇦

Those wheels are so sick!

Wish I'd have kept and tuned my GTI after the forged internals build but the bank wasn't so thicc after all that & it had to go lol. People definitely be sleeping on DSGs though, they're wicked fun and are sooo much more comfortable/less annoying to daily especially in big cities/traffic.

I love this vw content. Vw is my favorite car.

I had a friend that owned a Passat wagon four motion with a 1.8t and with a turbo upgrade and injectors it was a monster I’m not a vw guy but I respect how factory built they are to take the abuse it gets from bolt on parts

Yeah this is pretty cool. I am 1.8T BAM swapping my car soon in the near future. It should make around 600-800bhp depending on how far I am willing to go. This is really sick though, good job!!

i’m sure you know this but you can shift with the paddles behind the steering wheel instead of the shifter. when you put it in manual mode the left paddle is downshift and the right paddle is upshift

Just bought a mk6 gti stage 2 manual kinda wanted the dsg but man this car is a blast. Evans reaction was me lol

Vw need the respect they deserve there not bad cars and they make easy power I'm at the same setup but with a little more stuff then what you have and I've been some mustangs 5.0s but I'm waiting for my big turbo to come in hoping to make 500whp

Liked for the Garand thumb intro! 😂

You’re awesome bro keep grinding❤️👾

Banger video as always

I daily drive a mk7 gti with a dsg. A stage 2 tune intake and downpipe after a year of stage 2 delivery driveing it still puts a smile on my face

wait till evan finds out what you can do with one more cylinder and a DQ500

Evan you're rocking that mustache, my guy. Keep it up, dude.

Evan please know that you can use the paddle shifters when you put the car in sport mode and shift with the shift knob. You can use the paddles instead of shifting up and down with your hand on shift knob 😭🖤

Thank you Evan for you'r videos they are help me...

Just bought a mk7 big hybrid turbo at auction. So much fun. Makes 430whp on 93 and 520 on e60

I had a 96 automatic. All I wanted was a place setter exhaust. Some blistien coilovers. With a port job. Would of been fire. VW's are fun.

I saw this coming mk7 are so easy to make fast and so fun👀👀

evan rockin the dirty sanchez

This is one sweet car not going to lie! Looks really nice!

I’m glad you get it now

I love garand thumb!

Hell yeah man, it rips an sounds perfect! I’m stoked your mind is kinda changing, I love my vw tdi and can’t wait to go big turbo here soon, it’s practically fbo rn and is pretty damn quick!🤝

Absolute beauty of a car!! I have a 2015 Passat APR stage 1. Not as fast but still a fun car.

Wow I did not expect that message in the end.

Looking good. I drive a 4 speed manual 88 VW Transporter with 90 hp and stock 2020 GTI Autobahn 6spd MT. Both my grocery getters. I'm not going to modify anything on my GTI because it feels way faster already after driving my Transporter haha

Nice hair cut bro or did you just style it either way it’s nice

Im really enjoying this Golf content, you should get yourself an RS3 or Golf too 👍👌

Evan how about a 335I build? Loving this content

That is sic. I’m looking at a vortex xl with E85 almost 600 whp after I’m done with my 2021 GTI

My step son has a golf tsi...it's pretty quick for being the slower of the golf turbos. It doesn't have great suspension stock, the back end like to walk out in an off throttle curve. So I really want to win this one lol, they are very comfortable for long trips with a halfway decent stereo.

Not a VW guy but loving the content

Can’t lie that thing does sound ridiculous 🔥

I hope some day I can make my 2017 gti like this. That car looks amazing 🙂

Someone get this man in a FBO RS3.... Never seen someone ride in one who wasn't blown away

Lots of hybrid options that will provide 50-150 more HP on stock engine/trans

I always find it funny when he says big turbo for the is38, when the European spec "Clubsport S" GTI runs the Golf R motor and turbo from factory. Nonetheless love the content.

That GarandPinky Intro was golden 😂

Seeing you change your opinion on vw is awesome! And yes, they’re a lot of work, but VWs when done right can hold up better and for longer than subaru! My Subaru is okay, but the build quality to a vw is just better I’d say!

It’s crazy to me you found a two door mk7 , I have one and I love seeing other two doors

I don't think I will ever be a VW guy, but hot DAMN this thing is mint!

you forgot the “comment section is NUTS! you guys keep this channel alive” for the garand thumb intro lil

Modded GTI's are always fun, I don't understand why people hate on VW

Evan u will be beating scats and gt's and what not me and my bro are tuned with IE on our vw cc rlines , he is stage 1 im going stage 2. jus alone he is giving scats and gt's a smackin 🤘🏾💯

We need an n54 on this channel i could only imagine what you'd do with that engine

Ughhh i have my gti setup exactly like this, and I’ve been waiting on some big content like this, ughhh these cars are just so unreal