MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Flyer on April 03, 2016, 10:18:17 pm
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Hi everyone, first post! Buying a DSG soon and I'm after an air filter so that you can hear that beautiful waste gate sound. I used to have it on my fiesta RS turbo and it was awesome. Any tips appreciated. Thanks
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Revo and ITG get good reviews performance-wise. They're not cheap though. The Ramair kit is apparently excellent value and gives comparable performance to more expensive options.
As for sound, they're all going to be different to some degree, but generally an open cone (eg ITG) rather than an enclosed design (eg VWR) will be louder. And what one person thinks is subtle and tasteful another thinks is loud and chavvy.
Be aware that open cone filters often induce a strange intake resonance in k03 cars coming onto full boost. Think of a flute or recorder being played really badly and you're not a million miles away. It doesn't always happen, you might get lucky. But it does happen often enough, and like I said almost always on k03 cars. Something to do with the pipework or turbo, which obviously differ between k03 and k04 cars.
Plenty of people say you lose low down torque with an intake, while you gain flow (and therefore power) higher up the revs. Not sure how pronounced that is, or whether particular kits lose less than others, but having a map to suit the intake, as well as the rest of your hardware, should minimise any losses.
You can't keep the engine cover as well as an intake. I think Audi TTS covers work, and the GTI one can also be chopped to allow the intake to fit.
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Ramair oversized. Sounds great :smiley:
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What wastegate sound? You can't hear wastegates opening unless you have a screamer pipe, which you won't have with an internal gate.
The noise you probably mean is compressor surge...."Cha cha cha cha cha". And that's a bad thing, not a good thing!
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I think he means the induction sound as in the air sucking into the intake pipe when on the loud pedal
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I think he means the DV noise.
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Sucky sucky, pshhhht pshhhht and cha cha cha cha is your normal repertoire of turbot noises. And a very loud and annoying exhaust leak if you have a screamer pipe.
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Thanks guys I did mean the cha cha cha by the way aka rattlesnake sound! Not sure if the type of waste gate or set up on these. Good to know :happy2:
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Revo one gets my vote, quality bit of kit. When I decide to come back to another golf il be getting another revo one.
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I have had a forge twintake on my edition 30 for the last month and its nice and quiet not chavvy... youll prob be looking for a louder sound.
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Got a Neuspeed p flow kit for sale on the forum! Very wooshy and loud, sounds awesome
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Prepare yourself...ours does Curly's whoop-whoop-whoop-whoop...
We GTI's have an internal waste-gate with a diverter valve for a boost relief.