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ITG maxogen whistle
RedRobin:
--- Quote from: bigmig95 on July 13, 2012, 03:05:46 pm ---
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 ??
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....I couldn't agree more and nearly posted the same earlier.
Much as I respect that we each have our own individual feelings about what sounds we find acceptable, I think we have to accept compromises for the sake of extra performance. Personally, the 'whistle' I have eventually heard on the posted sound examples is not worth being bothered about, but that's just me. :happy2:
jedi-knight83:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on July 13, 2012, 03:45:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: bigmig95 on July 13, 2012, 03:05:46 pm ---
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 ??
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....I couldn't agree more and nearly posted the same earlier.
Much as I respect that we each have our own individual feelings about what sounds we find acceptable, I think we have to accept compromises for the sake of extra performance. Personally, the 'whistle' I have eventually heard on the posted sound examples is not worth being bothered about, but that's just me. :happy2:
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I disagree that this type of noise is an acceptable side effect of an intake. sucking / whooshing yes ok. but this is a whine / screech / whistle and its pretty annoying.
But the fact that some KO3 cars dont experience it tells me there is something that can be done to fix it.
Also.. on the subject of 'the gains are worth extra noise' .. I've been doing more logging vs the stock airbox and posted my results here... http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,50310.msg580317.html#msg580317
The 'gains' didnt seem as much as I was expecting?? Or are they normal for vagcom logs?
jedi-knight83:
found this on youtube
the twintake does the same noise.
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Looks like its going to be a sound i have to live with or go back to the stock intake
maxload:
Well i really like the sounds my itg makes over the stock intake. As was said earlier in this topic i think you have to make sacrifises if you want that extra power.
I have a revo stage1 map and the itg compliments the revo software quite nicely and i have definatly added more bhp.
I guess what im trying to say is (sorry to be blunt) if you dont like it take it off and move on.
jedi-knight83:
--- Quote from: maxload on July 19, 2012, 02:20:06 pm ---Well i really like the sounds my itg makes over the stock intake. As was said earlier in this topic i think you have to make sacrifises if you want that extra power.
I have a revo stage1 map and the itg compliments the revo software quite nicely and i have definatly added more bhp.
I guess what im trying to say is (sorry to be blunt) if you dont like it take it off and move on.
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yes but do you have that harmonic whistle / screech?
The general noise I liked.. but not the whistle
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