Lie Detector

EQT Consumer Manipulation – Prologue

Background: A post I made at the end of 2022 addressed the lack of substantiation EQT provided for claims the business made about the Blaze Performance intake and how the claims fall short of U.S. advertising guidelines regulated by the Federal Trade Commission. The discussions preceding the post, and those that followed, brought together information […]

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Duct-3 Pulls Starting Temp vs OAT

Air Duct Experiment – Part 3

Background: This post discusses the intake air temperatures recorded at the air filter and turbocharger inlet during full-throttle acceleration using a modified stock air duct. The results are being compared with a previous modification (opening the driver’s side) and the unmodified version of the air duct. The modification tested for this experiment is covering the

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Duct-2 and Duct-3

Air Duct Experiment – Part 2

Background: In part 1 of this experiment, I measured air temperatures at the CTS intake air filter and inside the turbocharger inlet elbow using a completely stock Mk7 air duct (Duct-1) and then with a modified stock air duct (Duct-2). The modified duct had the front of the driver’s side opened. The air temperatures with

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