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Hello everyone, I’m here to tell you about my experience with ABD’s lower IC pipe. Now I don’t own a VAG-COM, I don’t have money to get on the DYNO, but I do have a good set of eye’s and a boost gauge.
The installation went well. Yes, there was a little bit of elbow grease that went into it, but it went in fine and the fit was good. The pipe looks awesome (when the wheel is off and you can see it) to bad they didn’t do all the piping. So all I did was loosen two clamps and take a bolt off. The stock pancake pipe came right out. Does anyone want this peace of crap? Now when I looked into the stock pipe I found oil residue in the pipe. Is that from the turbo? Well after cleaning the ABD pipe (witch it needed very much) I put the pipe into the IC first. Then into the other hose at the same time pushing back towards the front of the car to get in into the hole of the bracket to put the bolt back on. Then I tighten the clamps back up tighten the bolt and gave it a nice wipe down. And that is it on the installation.
Wheel clearance looks to be fine with the stock tires on. When we turned the wheel full left there was about a 2.5” to 3” clearance. I only see a problem with wheels that exceed 8” to 8.5”. Other then that the only thing that sucks is it a perfect target for rocks and any other thing that’s going to bang around down there.
Now for performance, I was just UP’d on Monday and I noticed that when I was on the freeway and some times on the road that when I was at WOT my boost gauge would hit about 14.9psi and for a second hit 15psi. Please remember that I don’t have a VAG-COM and can’t perform any cool test that you all do. All I have is my eyes, ears, and a boost gauge.
Well after I installed the pipe and realigned the throttle body I took it for a drive. The first thing I notice was the sound that it made. It sounds deeper then it did without the pipe. Also my turbo seems to spool faster then it did. I also have an NS TIP installed a week before all of this. The throttle also seems a little more responsive. Now, on the boost was where I saw a big difference. Now when I’m at WOT on the freeway or on the road the psi will hit 16 pounds and some times a hair over, but the boost stays for a while unlike before the boost would drop as the RPM’s climbed. This is what I saw. I was getting on the freeway and at WOT the boost gauge hit about 16psi if not over then about 500 to 1000rpm’s later the boost started to slowly go to 15psi, and stayed there. It holds 15 pounds almost all the time at WOT. I really don’t see a drop in PSI when going up into high RPM’s now. It still pulls like the little engine that could. This thing has mad torque.
Well I’m not a mechanic so I tried to explain my experience as best as I could. If you are confused about some thing I’ll try and clear things up if I can but this is about all I can say.
Well I think the pipe was worth it. After seeing and hearing all of this, $70 bucks turned out to be O.K.
I have just one question. Is the oil that I found in the stock pipe cool or could there be something wrong?
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The installation went well. Yes, there was a little bit of elbow grease that went into it, but it went in fine and the fit was good. The pipe looks awesome (when the wheel is off and you can see it) to bad they didn’t do all the piping. So all I did was loosen two clamps and take a bolt off. The stock pancake pipe came right out. Does anyone want this peace of crap? Now when I looked into the stock pipe I found oil residue in the pipe. Is that from the turbo? Well after cleaning the ABD pipe (witch it needed very much) I put the pipe into the IC first. Then into the other hose at the same time pushing back towards the front of the car to get in into the hole of the bracket to put the bolt back on. Then I tighten the clamps back up tighten the bolt and gave it a nice wipe down. And that is it on the installation.
Wheel clearance looks to be fine with the stock tires on. When we turned the wheel full left there was about a 2.5” to 3” clearance. I only see a problem with wheels that exceed 8” to 8.5”. Other then that the only thing that sucks is it a perfect target for rocks and any other thing that’s going to bang around down there.
Now for performance, I was just UP’d on Monday and I noticed that when I was on the freeway and some times on the road that when I was at WOT my boost gauge would hit about 14.9psi and for a second hit 15psi. Please remember that I don’t have a VAG-COM and can’t perform any cool test that you all do. All I have is my eyes, ears, and a boost gauge.
Well after I installed the pipe and realigned the throttle body I took it for a drive. The first thing I notice was the sound that it made. It sounds deeper then it did without the pipe. Also my turbo seems to spool faster then it did. I also have an NS TIP installed a week before all of this. The throttle also seems a little more responsive. Now, on the boost was where I saw a big difference. Now when I’m at WOT on the freeway or on the road the psi will hit 16 pounds and some times a hair over, but the boost stays for a while unlike before the boost would drop as the RPM’s climbed. This is what I saw. I was getting on the freeway and at WOT the boost gauge hit about 16psi if not over then about 500 to 1000rpm’s later the boost started to slowly go to 15psi, and stayed there. It holds 15 pounds almost all the time at WOT. I really don’t see a drop in PSI when going up into high RPM’s now. It still pulls like the little engine that could. This thing has mad torque.
Well I’m not a mechanic so I tried to explain my experience as best as I could. If you are confused about some thing I’ll try and clear things up if I can but this is about all I can say.
Well I think the pipe was worth it. After seeing and hearing all of this, $70 bucks turned out to be O.K.
I have just one question. Is the oil that I found in the stock pipe cool or could there be something wrong?
