Yesterday, I raced against my friend 1.8T, for about 2 miles, he had bigger header, bigger turbo, chipped, diverter valve and so on, and I beat him, he said that his golf has 230HP, my Golf only had 208HP, at the end I was 2 car lenghts away, he could not believe his eyes.
I do not think the tires will count here I have bold tires in my Golf but I have an LSD, and he has nice tires all around his car, his car looks like a show car, really nice and clean, a beauty.