All Things Mk5 > Performance Modifications
ITG maxogen whistle
jedi-knight83:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on July 13, 2012, 10:32:04 am ---
--- Quote from: jedi-knight83 on July 13, 2012, 10:20:16 am ---
Its also clear its not such a rare case as ITG thought though.. its just rare that people complain direct to them I guess.
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....People are often shy about complaining face-to-face directly to manufacturers but, as many have said to me (who isn't shy), without feedback how can we know and then do anything about it? They prefer to complain about a problem to their friends. English reserve? :rolleye:
'Complaining', as long as it isn't done rudely or angrily, provides valuable feedback.
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exactly.
And like i've said.. it doesnt seem as if its something specifically wrong with the ITG intake... but this sound is very annoying and has been the cause of several people getting rid of the intake it seems... and if there is some little change ITG (or Forge / K&N etc) can make to silence the noise then I'm sure they will sell more intakes because there will be less on the 2nd hand market because people wont be forced to remove them :innocent:
jedi-knight83:
Out of interest... all of these whistling cars... have you knocked out your pre cat or is it still in place?
gigolo456:
I have full TBE with Sports Cat...
jedi-knight83:
just put my stock airbox / engine cover back on and logged it. no whistle at all and at peak the g/s is only 10-15 less than the itg so surely it cant be a small amount of extra air causing the whistle? must be something else with the way the air arrives at the turbo now or its a resonating sound in the metal piping?
bigmig95:
VW will have spent a lot of time and effort on NVH on the stock intake to silence such noises. Far more than ITG and Forge would as theirs are performance products with lets face it not much in the way of silencing qualities. Would you not agree that they would just be chasing peak flows ?
Personally it doesn't bother me unless the noise is a product of something other than the filter pipe resonance ie. boost control hardware resonating or malfunctioning. The commonality of it 'may' suggest its purely natural turbo noises amplified by a big load of pipe with sponge on the end ??
I guess some test at R-tech may get to the bottom of it.
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