Equilibrium Tuning Advertising Claim: Equilibrium Tuning (EQT) exclusively sells the Blaze intake in North America. EQT made several objective claims related to the performance of this intake. I hypothesize that EQT misrepresented the level and type of substantiation for the claim that performance was “verified by independent testing.“ In this post, I review evidence that […]
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Background: Several months ago the Mk8 PCV setup was installed on the GTI and the crankcase vacuum was measured for a few different intake configurations using an aftermarket inlet elbow and the stock Mk7 GTI inlet elbow. These results were checked against bench measurements that include a larger number of inlet elbow options. Recently the
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Background: This post continues a series where Stage 2 tune options for the Mk7 GTI are compared. In this post an IS20 Stage 1 tune from Audi Performance and Racing (APR) is installed on the Mk7 GTI and engine and vehicle performance data are recorded for comparison with stage 2 tune options. The inconsistency between saying the APR Stage
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