If you have a 1.6 A3 due to being young and uninsurable then I would just put up with the performance you have, fit some cheap coil overs and bigger wheels and drive around in it until you can afford to insure a 1.8t A3... then start tuning... any performance 'gain' seen from a NA engine like the 1.6 in the A3 will be negligible and expensive...
<tuffty/>
thats exactly what i did heres my old 1.6If you have a 1.6 A3 due to being young and uninsurable then I would just put up with the performance you have, fit some cheap coil overs and bigger wheels and drive around in it until you can afford to insure a 1.8t A3... then start tuning... any performance 'gain' seen from a NA engine like the 1.6 in the A3 will be negligible and expensive...
<tuffty/>
same boat lol, still got the c20xe head n bits on top of my wardrobe, was stooped but very very very fun (and totally dangerous speed) lolCompletely agree with the others. It's just money down the drain, you might as well put the money you could spend on it to one side and use it towards a 1.8t/S3 when insurance is more realistic (assuming that's the issue here).
My first car was a 1ltr 3 cylinder Corsa. I spent big money doing allsorts to it, eventually transplanting the 2tr 16v C20XE Astra engine in. Stupidest idea of my life, it destroyed cv joints, handled terrible and eventually cracked it's cylinder head. I sold it broken for next to nothing and lost a fortune. I ended up buying a Clio 172 for not much more than I paid for the engine/brakes/suspension on the Corsa and it was in a whole different league.
Moral of the story if you want to go fast, buy a car that was meant to be fast in the first place.