tdream1
Autocross Newbie
ive also always needed two spacers on my cbfa. one never works for me but there are always guys that will say otherwise
Yeah, my 42dd downpipe passed with only one spacer, but the APR needed a 2 spacer configuration.
ive also always needed two spacers on my cbfa. one never works for me but there are always guys that will say otherwise
Lol yeah is that what you do every year?BUY A STICKER FROM A FRIEND AND SLAP IT ON
My RAI spacer with the middle jet after the cat (3rd O2 sensor location) would not allow me to set readiness. Eventually, we tried adding a 2 - 2.5" straight spacer before the cat (2nd location) and it worked like a charm.
This car has been straight up a PITA to get inspected. I swear, I I knew how much trouble I would of never modified it.
I am currently catless DP w/K04. My Catless DP has all 3 sensors connected to it. I tried added a spacer to the end RAI spacer to the end hole. Never got a ready status.
I then didn't know that my stock DP only had two holes and thought I was given back the wrong one from the shop when I had my aftermarket one installed. Then found out via the shop that stock cat CBFA with K03 has 1 sensor on turbo, other two on the cat, thus I need a new bung welded in for the K04 setup. What a PITA.
So now I'm having that done and need to hope it works since I'm expired after this month. Uggggh.
What was the 2 -2.5 straight spacer that you added?
Another day, additional headaches but I know and understand a lot more now than ever before with this emission bs and this car.
So I took my car to get my APR 3.1 Test-Pipe file flashed to K04 Non-Test Pipe file at my local VW dealer that works with APR. Apparently they weren't aware that there was a Non-Test pipe file and completely flashed my ECU back to stock. I advised the technician that I spoke with APR and they had a non-test pipe file. He said it made sense because now I was getting an error due to the 4Bar map sensor on the OEM stock file. He went to go reflash it to that file but something went wrong and they had to keep my car overnight.
I call today to find out and they were just finishing up after working with APR and overall over 4 hours on the car. I imagine something really got fuked up with the ECU and they had to reprogram it entirely. I spoke with the technician and he advised that this was a new file that APR recently put out. It is basically a Test-Pipe file for 93 octane and 100 octane, but when you go back to stock mode, it becomes a non-test pipe file. That was always how I thought it worked but dummy APR thought people would want to run in stock load levels while still ignoring their sensors? Now they made it so you can be sensor free with the higher octane modes and then go to sensor reading stock mode.
So that's that. Now I have to verify if my O2 senor is really shot and replace it if so. AFTER that, I can drive through the good ole DM motha fu**kin V.