By Ian Case, the driver... The car is owned by Mike Newman, owner of APTuning in Lebanon, PA.  The car started off as a daily driver car for Mikešs girlfriend, and was soon thereafter fitted with an APR Stage 3 kit. After sponsoring the APTuning 20vTurbo Shootout at Maple Grove Raceway in June, the shop wanted to have a car to enter in the shootout. One of the guys in the shop, Joel, was going to drive the car, but couldnšt make it. Last minute they asked me to drive it and we ended up winning the shootout. The objective is to run a 10 second 1/4 mile with it. We've already broken the 11 second barrier at Waterfest this year. Mike, Mark, Tom, and the rest of the crew at APTuning built the car. I can't even take any credit for building the car at all. They did all the hard work, I just push the pedals and shift the gears. This car is special because it is the first mk4 1.8t in the 11's, and will hopefully be the first into the 10's this year at show and go. My favorite part of this car would have to be the nitrous switch. When I flip the switsh it lays me back in the seat and takes off like a rocket ship.  The only thing I don't like about this car is that its not mine, and that at the end of the year it is getting put back to street trim. Luckily there is already another car, bigger and badder in the works. To make it better we would likely be putting a bigger turbo on the car (which may already be done by the time this is published).  The car has FAR exceeded my expectations already and we've only run the car at 2 events and dyno'd it once. More Discussion and Information Body: 2003 GTi 1.8T Engine: APR Stg3, GHL cold air intake, Hyperboost DV, APR FMIC, 50 shot of nitrous, single fogger wet shot. AWP engine code Exhaust: 3" custom dumptube Transmission: o2a vr6 1st thu 4th, no 5th, 4.23 final drive, APTuning spool Suspension: APR Roll Control Springs Wheels/Tires: 15x7 Steel wheels/Mickey Thompson 24.5x8.5x15 ET Drag Slicks 17" OEM Long Beaches/OEM tires Brakes: Stock 11.3" Vented Exterior: 337 Front Valence, 337 Hatch Spoiler Lighting: Stock Interior: Sparco Fighter seat, Sparco steering wheel, removed all stock seats Stereo: Stock Monsoon stereo system, ou donšt need a radio to go faster Other Info: 11.87 @ 117.3 mph Props: Thanks/Props Mike, Mark, Tom, everyone else at APTuning, John (Spooled_AWP), Pat (Junk T.I.), Matt (Nebulight), and Tim (GTRTim) More Discussion and Information