Bicooler Drive Profile

Bicooler & Intercooler Heavy Lifting

Recording acceleration data to make before and after comparisons of swapped parts places a heavy demand on the intercooler. I was interested in looking at how adding the Majesty front mount IC to the IE v1 stock location intercooler would affect the temperature rise during a data logging session. The drive profile using the IE […]

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Mk7 Oil Pressure Rapid Throttle Modulation

Oil Pressure – Continued

After recording some initial oil pressure data to verify the data logging system was functioning correctly I drove the GTI under different conditions to evaluate how the oil pressure varied with the conditions. Cold engine start up and first couple of minutes of driving: Rapidly cycling the accelerator pedal: Remaining in third gear and accelerating

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Newsouth Performance Oil Pressure Gauge

Mk7 GTI Oil Pressure Logging

For a while I’ve had an oil pressure gauge installed in my GTI. Recently I got around to hooking the pressure sender into a data logger so I could correlate the oil pressure level with other data being logged with a Cobb AP. I assumed the pressure sender uses a 0-5 volt signal, but I

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