kwan88- I had this fitted to my LCR for about 2 days! I had an AMD remap a panel filter and the Forge Splitter R DV fitted all at once. It sounded nice when the boost built up and you quickly let off the throttle. However, i wasn't very impressed with the AMD map, so i ended up getting it taken off with a refund.
I kept the splitter R dv and filter on and drove home. The whole way home, i was thinking "this is reaaalllyy slow!". I mean slower than before it was mapped.
Now my boost gauge wasn't working properly at this point, so i assumed it may have been that, however when i got home, i replaced the vac pipe for the boost gauge, and went for a spin. I soon discovered that for the 1st 2mins the car was on it boosted properly to about 10psi like it used to, however then it would only peak at 4psi until the car was turned off and on again.
I was told this was a boost leak and to check my pipes etc...checked them, only to find they were all fine.
I put vag-com on the car, and found a fault code saying "Pressure drop between throttle valve and turbo (Check DV!)". So i then thought, i wonder if its the DV causing the problems. I put the standard bosch thing back on, and hey presto....
problem solved! The DV was sent back immediately for a refund, although i'm still waiting for the money back! grrr!
After thinking about it, i have come to the conclusion that if the splitter dv was causing problems
without the map...it was probably causing problems
with the map as well, but due to the increase in boost, the car didn't "
see" any problems.
So i was probably dissapointed with the remap, because the dv was causing problems, but i won't know until i get the map put back on...which won't be until the new year as the money has been spent elsewhere now.
I would recommend getting a forge 007p like most seem to suggest. This engine clearly doesn't like any kind of atmospheric dv!
