Background: The Mabotech M520h turbocharger was first installed in my GTI about a year ago. At the time I was using the stock GTI low-pressure fuel pump with an aftermarket HPA high-pressure fuel pump and stock pressure sensors. Working with those limitations, tuning was done with E30 fuel and produced a boost profile close to
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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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