Golf R IC Virtual Dyno WHP Trend

Golf R IC Street Data

Background: Continuing an evaluation of the Mk7 Golf R IC, the intercooler is installed in my GTI and data is logged during a series of street pulls. This evaluation follows a flow test of the Golf R IC. Test Procedure: The GTI is equipped with a Shuenk IS38+ turbo operating with a custom EQT tune. […]

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Cobb GTI IS38 - Boost

Cobb Tune – OTS IS38 GTI

Background: For a couple of years, I’ve been reading fellow enthusiast cautions about using the Cobb “bundled” tunes that come with the Cobb Accessport. These are tunes that may be preinstalled on an Accessport, or can be freely downloaded from the Cobb website. People have stated: It’s not “refined”. It doesn’t make good “power”. Cobb

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Intake Power Gains Boxplot

Intake Power Gains

Background: Intake power gains, or the lack thereof, is a regular theme when questions are posed about the “best intake”. The responses are fairly uniform: The responses are so consistent that sometimes when people ask about intakes they preface the question by stating they “know” that intakes don’t make any power: I was curious to

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