Traction issues with more power?

[Jhill]

Originally Posted by somedude

Wow. I am really stoked by all the knowledge here guys. Learning quite a bit. So to be honest with you all the reason why I am not entertaining a boosted option is because I have heard many, many, horror stories and I have this vehicle as a daily driver. I just hope that I am not looking for the famous unicorn (just in case you guys are confused, I mean chasing something that does not exist aka daily driver reliable 500hp vehicle). I have two friends with aftermarket boosted hatches (2014 GTI and 2015 FOST) and their vehicles need a lot of attention and a lot of mods to sustain their new numbers. Am I kind of wrong about turbos? What do you guys think? Would I be able to achieve what am looking for without killing my car 2 years from now?

Well I'm not a boosted z but I've been a tech for many years and I'll just say right now the vw wouldn't be reliable even if oem so you can't blame the mods (although they may not help). The z is a great platform to start I would say as the reliability of the VQ is very good but once boosted a lot will rely on the software and tuner. I think most will say ecutek hands down for boosted and if in California then Seb is known for good tunes.