mwoodski
Autocross Champion
reminds me of the eventuri intake just not carbon fiber.
big fan of the eventuri setup tbh.
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big fan of the eventuri setup tbh.
sterkrazzy
Autocross Champion
Better than spending $1800 on eventuri.
sterkrazzy
Autocross Champion
Intake choices for the rs3 freakin suck. The stage 1 awe intake is over $500 and this is all you get.
Every other intake is over a grand and I'm not spending that much for a damn intake. I wish someone made something I liked as much as my R600 intake, but it doesn't exist. Every single intake option has carbon fiber and the blaze intake is the only one with no carbon. The new intake racingline is working on for the 8y is also going to be carbon fiber. I pretty much refuse to buy anything with carbon fiber.
Apparently blaze is coming out with stage 2 piping for the intake I want, so I can upgrade the rest of it later.
Every other intake is over a grand and I'm not spending that much for a damn intake. I wish someone made something I liked as much as my R600 intake, but it doesn't exist. Every single intake option has carbon fiber and the blaze intake is the only one with no carbon. The new intake racingline is working on for the 8y is also going to be carbon fiber. I pretty much refuse to buy anything with carbon fiber.
Apparently blaze is coming out with stage 2 piping for the intake I want, so I can upgrade the rest of it later.
Strange Mud
Autocross Champion
@mwoodski @Saabingti
If weather, Chores, and Mrs Mud allows y'all want to meet? I'll take Comet
any other CT peeps or even greater boston folks
If weather, Chores, and Mrs Mud allows y'all want to meet? I'll take Comet
any other CT peeps or even greater boston folks
messrock
Autocross Champion
WEIGHT SAVINGS, BRO - they figure you have the money for an Audi you can buy everything carbon fiber.
aspro_gti
Autocross Champion
messrock
Autocross Champion
Negative for me. Car gonna be in the shop.Comet
If anyone from Greater Boston goes I might be down to swing by.
riceburner
Autocross Champion
really hoping the shop i'm going to can just confirm if and what kind of 02 spacer would get my 'monitoring 02 sensor at operating temperature' to 'ready' instead of 'not activated' since otherwise the benefit of a tune on an already tuned car is kind of negligible for ~700 bucks
Nineeightyone
Autocross Champion
I can't come back to NE until I get better at karting, @aspro_gti is a monster 
also @riceburner is it not able to pass as 'not activated', assuming that's different than 'not ready'? I had an issue with P0421 on my Mazda that sounds vaguely similar, but it would throw the CEL for the post-cat O2 sensor and my solution ended up being clearing the codes, and allowing it to idle on cold start for 60-90 seconds. Dumbest thing in the world, but I guess it works? Might work for you as well, or at least it's a free thing to try before you throw money at it.
also @riceburner is it not able to pass as 'not activated', assuming that's different than 'not ready'? I had an issue with P0421 on my Mazda that sounds vaguely similar, but it would throw the CEL for the post-cat O2 sensor and my solution ended up being clearing the codes, and allowing it to idle on cold start for 60-90 seconds. Dumbest thing in the world, but I guess it works? Might work for you as well, or at least it's a free thing to try before you throw money at it.
Acadia18
Autocross Champion
It's practically cheaper to buy a blue MK6R!
While my knowledge of MK5's is limited, if the current tune is disabling the monitoring of the O2 sensor ('not activated' vs. ready\not ready), I'd think the tune would need to be changed somewhat, either a new one or stock tune put back on, to turn the monitoring back on. Not something just a spacer could fix.
Nineeightyone
Autocross Champion
That's true, I know in PA we're allowed one 'not ready', and otherwise if the monitor isn't there (how I interpret 'not activated'), then it can't fail. Idk how things work up there though
sterkrazzy
Autocross Champion
Too much work to piece something together and I don't think it'd be able to make it look good. I like how the blaze is set up. I placed the order, so I'm gonna try that. There was some assuming and some "should fits" in regards to this working on my car, so I guess I'll find out.
jay745
What Would Glenn Danzig Do
That's the tune homie. No spacer is going to solve that
riceburner
Autocross Champion
Well snap. Oh well, they are custom mapping the car as we speak. Updated the VW engine software to the latest as well so thats nice i guess.
May stick around and have them just do a full on general inspection of the car just for the fuck of it, cause i'm gearing up to do a bunch of suspension stuff but would rather they tell me whats actually failing or where i can get the best bang for the buck on stuff. or hit me out of the blue with something thats actually shit the bed that i havent realized yet.
anyway hopefully the car drives better/is at least a little quicker after this!
May stick around and have them just do a full on general inspection of the car just for the fuck of it, cause i'm gearing up to do a bunch of suspension stuff but would rather they tell me whats actually failing or where i can get the best bang for the buck on stuff. or hit me out of the blue with something thats actually shit the bed that i havent realized yet.
anyway hopefully the car drives better/is at least a little quicker after this!