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Offline squires

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Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« on: 16 October 2013, 14:04 »
After suspecting mine was gone due to lack of boost at higher revs when I first bought my golf, I removed my old type valve which was split.
Put a rev D valve in and car was great boosted all the way through rev range and fuel consumption improved.

Now I'm back to square 1, inconsistent boost, can hear the boost leaking under acceleration and dumping a little at high revs, fuel consumption is awful again.

Valve has only done 800 miles, so I'm going to fit a rev G rubber type again, I no,it will split eventually but at least car will perform again.

So if anyone is thinking of getting a rev D dont bother there crap  :laugh:

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #1 on: 17 October 2013, 08:29 »
I've been advised by Hurdy to get the DV+ from GFB as it replaces all the bits that are known to fail and it costs only about twice a whole new diverter valve, but gives added throttle response... I will let you know how it feels once I've fitted my GTI with it!

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #2 on: 17 October 2013, 20:22 »
^^^^^THIS ^^^^^ :smiley:
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Offline squires

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #3 on: 20 October 2013, 16:25 »
I've seen that as well I'm going to go for one for piece of mind, then a good stage 1 remap

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #4 on: 20 October 2013, 17:48 »
Almost exactly what I'm doing to my GTI! Let me know how you get on with the DV+ valve upgrade, or I'll drop you a line when I've done mine.

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Offline mvb

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #5 on: 24 October 2013, 11:34 »
Rev G over DV+ for me. for the price of it I would just get a standard REV G may change it 2 or 3 times during my ownership. guess you need to weight up how long your going to keep her for...
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Offline th3_f15t

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #6 on: 29 October 2013, 19:46 »
Having fitted my DV+ and run it for a good 100 miles now to gauge performance, I can say for sure that there's a change in power delivery from my engine, it's smoother through the rev range and also feels like the engine doesn't need to work so hard at lower RPM now. Also know that when I up the power by 20-25% that it'll cope with it fine.

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Offline MoshiMoshi

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #7 on: 29 October 2013, 20:09 »
Stupid question (mk4 owner), can you guys not upgrade to a forge DV?
I thought Volkswagens were supposed to be reliable?

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #8 on: 29 October 2013, 22:38 »
Stupid question (mk4 owner), can you guys not upgrade to a forge DV?

Forge no longer required with the G revision release.

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Re: Diverter valves, rev D poor performance
« Reply #9 on: 01 November 2013, 07:59 »
Stupid question (mk4 owner), can you guys not upgrade to a forge DV?

Forge no longer required with the G revision release.

Plus the oem version is half the price of the Forge and is a direct replacement. The Forge requires a bit of tweaking