Background: Last year I purchased a counterfeit GFB DV+ off of eBay (unintentionally) when I was interested in making a comparison of the stock DV and the stock DV attached to the DV+. Inconsistent boost bleed-off was recorded with the fake DV+ and after reaching out to GFB they informed me that the unit I […]
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Conducted a quick experiment to see what the intake pressures did with a disconnected DV (Diverter Valve). Comp is the pressure at the compressor outlet measured inside the turbo muffler. The Boost pressure rises above the upper limit of the stock pressure sensor, indicated by the flat-lined dark blue line just after the Throttle closes.
Background: One of the questions I had when planning a swap from the IHI IS20, which is stock in the Mk7 GTI, to the Golf R IHI IS38 was how the two turbochargers compare. I collected a bunch of dyno charts that were posted by others for the IS20 and the IS38. From the collection
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