I’m glad I found this page. I ordered the open air intake complete kit from 034 for my 2021 7.5 6mt. Now I’ll be returning it. They do make an enclosed “OEM+” airbox though. I wonder how that would affect vacuum. Also, I’ve decided I’m going to just replace the PCV whenever I do spark plugs.
Out of curiosity, what were you running? -Year/make/model? -Turbo? -TIP? -Intake? -Tune? (any idea of boost levels?) -PCV version on your car? Keep in mind they can still just plain wear out with time and use. I'd still consider OEM PCVs a "wear item" and expect replacement every 50-60k.
Thank you for all of the work you do on these cars Tony and for sharing your findings with the community. I had a MK7 R that I ran 6 or 7 HPDE events with, but I sold it because it felt like it was on stilts in medium and high speed corners (stock DCC suspension with PS4S tires). I find myself missing that car and hope to return to the platform (maybe with a GTI this time), especially if I can improve the handling confidence without ruining the street manners.
Thanks! I personally went with a GTI because they're lighter, less hassle to do some work on them, and less to go wrong in general. Subjectively they've felt more "playful" than the Golf Rs I've driven. The added weight can really be felt. I've been super happy with my relatively simple setup - Koni Special Actives, add camber via plates and LCA bushings, and sway bars to reduce body roll. I'll be adding some lowering springs over winter to experiment with, but keeping the stock ones just in case it turns out to be worse.
Ive watched all this series and its very interesting! I bought a mqb cupra and i had bad oil surge. Went hard up a private road to around 120mph, hit the brakes and plumed the road with smoke behind and car cut out. Wouldnt start for 15 minutes. Eventually started and ran fine. There was no oil in the turbo inlet so it got into the combustion chamber. Ive just put a oil catch can kit on. Be good to see the outcome of this experiment your doing though!
My mk7 oem one was kaput on a 2015. Got an aftermarket mk8 revision and installed it. Just have an ecu tune. Seems to be working fine and fixed the oil consumption. I don't track it
Never had any oil surge on my Cupra 2016, I’m not tracking the car but do drive hard on mountain roads. Stock ECU, but r600 intake, pipe and turbo inlet. Did notice once or twice a bit of oil in the inlet but never had any big smoke of oil while driving. Do have smoke on startup if the car is parked between 30min to 6 hours but must be oil vapor or something else (nothing after a full night parked, camera showed no trace of valves leaks, PCV replaced, injectors replaced) Did wonder if i could monitor the differences between my inlet pipe with obd eleven but i suppose I can only access manifold absolute pressure
I covered it in a few other videos, but if what you have isn't showing any real problems, I wouldn't worry about changing anything out honestly. Smoke from the tailpipes after sitting a while normally points towards the beginning of valve stem seal failure, so is probably something to keep an eye on.
@@datadrivenmqb thanks for your response mate. Was just wondering if it could be related.. still don’t know why I don’t have smoke after more than 7h sitting
@@datadrivenmqb thanks man, i was thinking about buying the mk8 retro fit kit off of urotuning but after looking at ur information more i’m leaning more towards going back to the OEM turbo inlet pipe and replacing my PCV valve with a regular mk7 OEM one. Ive been having a puff of smoke come out of my exhaust upon start up for a while now and have been trying to figure out why
@@lockmonster8637 no problem! FWIW the puff at start up is potentially early signs of valve seals. So if whatever solution you try doesn’t help, I’d look to rule that out.
@@lockmonster8637 if you have them laying around, yeah. I personally chose to do the basic retrofit initially. It has a lot more flexibility to add the 034 TMD at a later time to do the full retrofit (which my testing indicates is a far superior design). I went real in depth here to explain what exactly is going on: czcams.com/video/Pjcpla__riY/video.htmlsi=-lHCjeGNTuYwVKRj
I’m glad I found this page. I ordered the open air intake complete kit from 034 for my 2021 7.5 6mt.
Now I’ll be returning it.
They do make an enclosed “OEM+” airbox though. I wonder how that would affect vacuum.
Also, I’ve decided I’m going to just replace the PCV whenever I do spark plugs.
My pcv system failed and was getting alot of blow by in the intake manifold. I was using a aftermarket inlet pipe. Thank you for sharing this!
Out of curiosity, what were you running?
-Year/make/model?
-Turbo?
-TIP?
-Intake?
-Tune? (any idea of boost levels?)
-PCV version on your car?
Keep in mind they can still just plain wear out with time and use. I'd still consider OEM PCVs a "wear item" and expect replacement every 50-60k.
Dang, looks like I’m keeping my stock TIP.
Thank you for all of the work you do on these cars Tony and for sharing your findings with the community.
I had a MK7 R that I ran 6 or 7 HPDE events with, but I sold it because it felt like it was on stilts in medium and high speed corners (stock DCC suspension with PS4S tires). I find myself missing that car and hope to return to the platform (maybe with a GTI this time), especially if I can improve the handling confidence without ruining the street manners.
Thanks!
I personally went with a GTI because they're lighter, less hassle to do some work on them, and less to go wrong in general. Subjectively they've felt more "playful" than the Golf Rs I've driven. The added weight can really be felt.
I've been super happy with my relatively simple setup - Koni Special Actives, add camber via plates and LCA bushings, and sway bars to reduce body roll. I'll be adding some lowering springs over winter to experiment with, but keeping the stock ones just in case it turns out to be worse.
Ive watched all this series and its very interesting! I bought a mqb cupra and i had bad oil surge. Went hard up a private road to around 120mph, hit the brakes and plumed the road with smoke behind and car cut out. Wouldnt start for 15 minutes. Eventually started and ran fine. There was no oil in the turbo inlet so it got into the combustion chamber. Ive just put a oil catch can kit on. Be good to see the outcome of this experiment your doing though!
Thanks for the continued work on this dude.
My mk7 oem one was kaput on a 2015. Got an aftermarket mk8 revision and installed it. Just have an ecu tune. Seems to be working fine and fixed the oil consumption. I don't track it
Love the EQT shitfest
Never had any oil surge on my Cupra 2016, I’m not tracking the car but do drive hard on mountain roads. Stock ECU, but r600 intake, pipe and turbo inlet.
Did notice once or twice a bit of oil in the inlet but never had any big smoke of oil while driving.
Do have smoke on startup if the car is parked between 30min to 6 hours but must be oil vapor or something else (nothing after a full night parked, camera showed no trace of valves leaks, PCV replaced, injectors replaced)
Did wonder if i could monitor the differences between my inlet pipe with obd eleven but i suppose I can only access manifold absolute pressure
I covered it in a few other videos, but if what you have isn't showing any real problems, I wouldn't worry about changing anything out honestly. Smoke from the tailpipes after sitting a while normally points towards the beginning of valve stem seal failure, so is probably something to keep an eye on.
@@datadrivenmqb thanks for your response mate. Was just wondering if it could be related.. still don’t know why I don’t have smoke after more than 7h sitting
will just a carbon fiber APR intake along with the carbon fiber intake hose effect the vacuum this bad?
Not enough to be detrimental IMO. The turbo inlet accounts for like 80% of the vacuum source, intake is a far smaller factor by comparison.
@@datadrivenmqb thanks man, i was thinking about buying the mk8 retro fit kit off of urotuning but after looking at ur information more i’m leaning more towards going back to the OEM turbo inlet pipe and replacing my PCV valve with a regular mk7 OEM one. Ive been having a puff of smoke come out of my exhaust upon start up for a while now and have been trying to figure out why
@@lockmonster8637 no problem! FWIW the puff at start up is potentially early signs of valve seals. So if whatever solution you try doesn’t help, I’d look to rule that out.
@@datadrivenmqb do you think going back to OEM inlet pipe with OEM mk7 pcv valve would be the best bet?
@@lockmonster8637 if you have them laying around, yeah. I personally chose to do the basic retrofit initially. It has a lot more flexibility to add the 034 TMD at a later time to do the full retrofit (which my testing indicates is a far superior design).
I went real in depth here to explain what exactly is going on:
czcams.com/video/Pjcpla__riY/video.htmlsi=-lHCjeGNTuYwVKRj
Do Any aftermarket inlets have the little hump inside by the pcv like the oem one
@readywhenyouare7262 not any that I'm aware of.