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    CR140 Flapper Valve Performance...

    My motor, for whatever reason, would not default to open via the motor, even tuned to default open. Only unplugging. Only reason I can think of is the position sensors. No power, no sensors or motor function. In a properly functioning intake, yes, it should default via the motor. I am pretty...
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    CR140 Flapper Valve Performance...

    The difference is large enough to not need a dyno on a tuned car IMO. But in my case, flaps were not functioning properly. If they were, difference would not have been as noticeable. But it made enormous difference for me. I can testify that it increased airflow using the methanol injection...
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    Lift for TDI Sportwagen (for oversize tires)

    Hi, I am running the tow springs in rear witb bilstein hds and am trying to level out front. In the picture, it looks pretty even. Are you happy with setup? I have Bilstein HD's in the front, but they are getting weak. How do you like the strut/spring combo? John
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    Fact, without LP egr and NO WATER INJECTION, I still had condensation. And water is injected POST IC. So saying LP egr fixes it is wrong. Yes, it helps. Makes it probably never happen. But if flaps are open, YOU WILL FIND IT HARD TO ICE IT. Close them up and you just created breeding...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    I think we agree more than disagree...Forget cars for a minute and just think as much as you can in terms of HVAC. Include airflow/heat load/transfer. IC is dumping Heat, Turbo adding it from intake manifold in one big circle. Think effect intake can have on everything in that circle. You...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    It's very simple. Starve your TDI for air. IC gets cold(not temperature, which doesn't measure cold, it's a reading of temperature on a scale. You also need CFM and humidity to know actual heat content). Water.
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    I had NO LP egr for a long time, with NO water injection, yet had IC condensation. That is no theory, that is a FACT. Keep saying I'm wrong, with no facts to back it up. You say LP is fact. WHY? I have seen with my own two eyes that it happens without the LP. Again, I know LP has moisture...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    I am not disagreeing on how the EGR works. The swirl is to completely burn the fuel so you have less Nox. I GET IT. It just so happens to also increase MPG's. I am showing effect on the IC from flaps failing. Which happened to lower my MPG's ALOT. Think I was making more or less Nox? And...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    Not sure what we disagree on at this point. I don't agree I guess that it's a problem at day 1. Something is causing it. Or percentage effected would be much higher IMO. http://www.natef.org/natef/media/natefmedia/vw%20files/2-0-tdi-ssp.pdf Page 9. To form a good mixture. That's it. No...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    Again, when did I say eliminate them. REPLACE IT. Put new one in. Cheaper and easier than IC TSB. How about the position sensors are bad? Bad batch. I'm saying that once I unplugged, NO MORE WATER. And BETTER MPG'S. How can your nox emissions overall be that much worse? I don't believe...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    TRUST ME THEY FAIL, MINE DID before 80k(could have been failed a long time) AND I HAD IC CONDENSATION. Unplug manifold and a magic water fairy came and took it away. WITH EGR SYSTEM INTACT. Not sure how much clearer I can be. I don't care about nox. So it is for nox. Whatever. Issue at...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    I never said DPF had anything to do with nox. I was speaking in general terms of what makes its way past the cat for emissions testing. And if you talk about flaps, once over 3k, they make no difference. Unless they fail to open. So for 1k-3k. That's the band those flaps effect nox in...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    I disagree. The intake flaps are primarily for MPG'S and efficiency, not emissions. And I will argue your emissions would be WORSE with intake flaps closed than it would ever be wide open. My MPG's were much lower with flaps closed. That alone is more emissions(more fuel burned). My mileage...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    At least you didn't call him a crackhead. I got banned for responding to that insult. Eccentric maybe. But crack is wack ;)
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    There is a very simple fix for VW. TSB the manifold, not the intercooler. Costs $400 LESS in parts. That's is why it's not simple. They lose money if they actually fix it. A good engineer should have figured this out...and probably did. Then that engineer was told to keep his or her mouth...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    RPM's matter more than speed. The more the engine turns over, the more fuel can go in. And the more air goes in and out. That's why boost drops off, in addition to engine not requiring it as much. Turbo just gives you air that you normally would not have until higher rpms, using heat that is...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    I have a patent pending product coming out soon. When you see it, you will see how this thread inspired it, but it has nothing to do with it, unless you look at the atmospheric science/thermodynamics behind it. It would take you years to guess. But I actually owe most of you guys some credit...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    At first I thought more soot would get to DPF as well, but remember, soot is unburned fuel. Fuel doesn't burn because of lack of air. If flaps are closed, you have that at higher rpm. At idle, you have LESS AIR WITH FLAPS CLOSED. Now you may not get efficient burn inside cylinders, but as...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    I disagree. It's not very much, that I will say. It's squat. Let me rephrase it. You could not have LESS AIR. If turbo has bigger duct to pull from, it can move more air, depending how much can be let out. Increasing inlet to turbo, will help much more if restriction is inlet itself. But...
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    Hard Start / No Start - Is your intercooler frozen? Check Here!

    Removing the intake duct would allow just a bit more air to flow past closed flaps. Taking any restriction away will help. But with flaps closed, you really need to increase the velocity more than you are capable of to overcome it. Actually that dealer is closer to actually solving it than...
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