Turbo lag

[chris s]

I've recently been feeling there is a touch more lag when pulling from low revs... I've changed the dv to rev g and had a bit of a fiddle with the setting 969 at the moment... Does anyone have any ideas about how I can reduce the feeling of lag...? The car pulls strongly after 2500rpm so I'm just looking to smooth the phase where the turbo is spooling ... Ideas greatly received

[Pikey Motorsports]

Intercooler and intercooler pipes will help.. The k04 doesnt really suffer with any lag though and would probaly be pritty much impossible to get much boost below 2500rpm

[rich83]

K04 doesnt spool until somewhere between 2000 and 2500rpm so to get it to pull below 2000rpm is gonna be a struggle

[chris s]

Cheers mate I've got the s3 inter cooler and pipes... It's probably just me as I've been doing more motorway miles and keeping it steady so when I go for it I usually have to get over that 2500rpm threshold

[GrayMK5GTI]

K04 doesnt spool until somewhere between 2000 and 2500rpm so to get it to pull below 2000rpm is gonna be a struggle

*off topic*

Nice signature Rich - you should list all those brands under the wing mirror on each side. All the cool kids do it 

[rich83]

Also... remember that increasing the capacity of the charge system (between the turbo and the intake manifold) will increase lag.