Background: The Mabotech M600 turbocharger is being bench-tested to determine the turbine housing flow rate. Test Process: The turbine housing is placed on an adapter that connects it to the flow bench. At the housing inlet, a bellmouth is attached to smooth airflow into the housing. The turbine blades are held stationary during the test,
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Background: The MQB community relies heavily on tuners for guidance and technical interpretation. How many times have you seen an answer given such as “Ask your tuner“, or “What did your tuner say?“, or “Tuner XYZ said so“? That’s why professionalism and technical rigor matter. This post examines a short exchange I had with a
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Background: While in the process of incorporating Flex Fuel tuning on my Golf R, some updates were being made to the 93-octane setting to account for the current hardware configuration on the car. I’ve been running the stock airbox and decided to try an aftermarket intake to see if it raised the ceiling on the
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