Intake manifold doesn't make any difference, few people have already posted about it... It's not restrictive like for the FSI engines... Sure it looks great, especially with the holes ready for m but that's an expensive part for just the look
That may be true for the other products on the market, but we have shown very good gains even on aggressive K03 and K04 setups with our design. Larger turbos of course take much more advantage of the manifold. Proper resonance tuning and runner shapes coupled with flow tuned velocity stacks and plenum volume/shape goes a long way. We did not rush this product to the market, even though the demand has been incredibly high to ensure it was an actual performance piece. We have been developing the highest performing intake manifolds on the market for quite some time now. We are compiling all the engine and chassis dyno data now to release with the pre-sale.
So the TSI turbo kit is only on the drawing board? Meaning what exactly? Are you guys still working out if it is feasable and/or doable? It is my opinion that you guys would sell a hell of a lot more TSI turbo kits (especially using the EFR turbos) then FSI kits since the market is flooded with FSI BT kits and most of the Golf Rs interested in a turbo kit are already APR stage 3. IMO it is the TSI market that is looking for a packaged BT kit with software that makes decent to big power since the only other option is APR and we know how dissapointing those kits are.
Hardware. The hardware is very similar for both cars, but the TSI kit requires a few different cast intake and charge piping, silicone, downpipe, and a few other odds and ends. The casting process is the longest wait for the whole turbo kit, but it is in the works now and we are pushing to release it quickly after the Golf R kit.
I'm sure hardware is not the problem, it probably could be out already... They should release the kit without software, med 17 is way more complicated than others ECUs and it will take them ages to figure it to finally have a tune that's probably not even that great..
Actually as posted above it really is just the wait for hardware on these. We have great success in tuning these ECU's, only real road block with the software side is not tuning it, but delivering it without having every customer mail in an ECU for bench flashing on MED17 platforms. However, we are now working out what we need to deliver these via port flashing.
We have been tuning up to 5 local VW and Audi TSI cars a day for Stage 1 - 2 tunes for months now for verification all the different ECU codes. Our tunes are holding their own against any other.
Here are
early TSI tune revisions (we are at 4500 feet here, not sea level).
All of our 2.0T Stage 1-2 tunes are about to go for sale soon as well. We are actually planning a trip very soon to take our EFR kits through a long road trip through high elevation mountains, hot desert, heavy traffic, and sea level through California to show how well our tuning will perform in any area. We will have lots of video, photos, and data for that.
So please, don't worry about software. Cracking MED17 was absolutely no issue.
All I care about is auxiliary fuel injector ports on the intake manifold. Having proper fueling support will be grand.
All the manifolds will come designed with plenty of room for fuel injectors, and will be delivered with tapped 1/8" NPT threads for water meth injectors. For those few really pushing the boundaries of fueling that want manifold injection, we left a lot of room for injector ports to machined in by any machine shop.
Are those top mounts for meth injection or fuel injectors?
They will come tapped for methanol, with plugs in them for those running either. For those few customers who want manifold injectors, there is plenty of room to have bungs machined in.
So im drawing a blank, where does the rear breather adapter mount to on the TSI engine?
It replaces the rear breather on the back of Garret turbos. However if you are using the valve cover breather plate to setup a catch can, you do not need that piece. Only those running the early single outlet breather plates would need this piece.