New to Me Tow Ride

[mmandley]

My Touareg has 3 large grills in the nose. One in the center for the radiator and then 1 under each headlamp. When I first bought it a guy at work was saying to me "man why do you have 3 radiators, one in the middle and 2 on each end". I said "dude those aren't radiators, those are intercoolers for the turbos"! You should have seen the look on his face! My wife used to have a Porsche 911 and one day she got into a race with a Turbo 911 on the interstate and it blew her doors off. She said one day I am going to have a Turbo. Well when she bought her Jetta I said "babe your dream has come true, you now own a Turbo and she smiled! She loves her Jetta, and she should she gets 40mpg and they little thing will do 128mph!!!

Honestly i have never been a turbo fan because they dont work off the line. You have to wait for the turbo to spool up. Ive always like Superchargers.

I will say i really like this Turbo and im a believer now LOL. Course im not looking to changing the oil at 3K all the time now because i know dirty oil will destroy your turbo. In the F150 i changed it at 5K

[zegm]

Honestly i have never been a turbo fan because they dont work off the line. You have to wait for the turbo to spool up. Ive always like Superchargers.

I will say i really like this Turbo and im a believer now LOL. Course im not looking to changing the oil at 3K all the time now because i know dirty oil will destroy your turbo. In the F150 i changed it at 5K

I am not sure who makes VW's turbos but they are variable vane turbos so I don't really feel any lag. Again I am not the fastest off the line but she does move pretty good. It is when diesels are moving and you go to pass someone that they will throw you back into the seat and leave everyone else behind (I have done this to a Mustand, a new camaro and a Maserati). They have so much low end torque there is no need to downshift, they will pull a higher gear easily.
OK Diesel Oil, the VW "pump duse" (some German word for the injection system) pumps the fuel into the cylinders at 29,000PSI!!! We can only run 5% bio as anything else will solidify (we were told it would make the oil back into french fries). Because of the wear on the cam turning the pump we have to run VW approved oil (some shear property) and if you lose your motor while it is under warranty VW will test the oil to see if it has that property, if not you bought yourself an engine. So I use Lubri Moly oil designed for the VW engine 15W-40. This stuff cost me 40 dollars for a 5 quart jug (cheapest price I can find online) and my 5.0 Liter Touareg uses 14 quarts so it cost me 120 dollars for the oil alone (the wifes little 2.0 Liter Jetta uses 6 qts). That being said the owners manual, the dealer, the VWVortex board members and everyone else I talk to say change it a 10,000 miles and that is what I do. But you are right the day after you change the oil this stuff gets BLACK!!!

[Brianinpdx]

All I'm saying is 2 things....

Damn nice truck!

and, you seriously need to marry that girl.

Congrats mike!

-Brian

[viking]

Course im not looking to changing the oil at 3K all the time now because i know dirty oil will destroy your turbo.

Mike,
Go to Synthetic!

[gus 08 mobius lsv]

this chip you guys talk about for 1200 bones what is its purpose and is it worth putting in ?

[gus 08 mobius lsv]

hey mike are those stock rims for the Lariat package or did the first owner put on aftermarket rims?

[viking]

this chip you guys talk about for 1200 bones what is its purpose and is it worth putting in ?

All vehicles have programmers for them now that they are really just rolling computers. They just help you get more of the potential HP and Torque out of your vehicle. Some have "chips" that are just pluggins that change timing and rev limiters and such. Others are programmers that you can modify settings the way you want and some even you can change while on the fly. They also let you change your tire size for correct speedo calibration and different settings for the different octane levels you might be running.

"Canned Tuners" are pre-programmed settings that you can load. Others like EFI Live are programs that you run on your laptop to really modify the settings. Depends on what you are looking for.

I have a Hypertech Chip plugged into my 90 Mustang and have for years.

On my Diesel I have a PPE canned programmer that has about 5 different settings. It really helps with power and gets better fuel mileage than the factory settings.

[viking]

OH - and there are several manufacters out there for both gas and diesel.

Hypertech
EFI Live
Superchips
BullyDog
Edge
Godzilla

.............just to name a few!

[mmandley]

I had an Gryphon on my F150 i wonder if they can reflash that for the Diesel. It was strickly a fuel and timming type computer and had lots of cool displays LOL.

As for my rims no there After market. Some dill weed sprayed acid base cleaner on them at some point and the insides of the rim are flacking chrome. The outside he wiped off fast enough but at some point i will be rechomming them.

Brian- Yes i need to do that and i will dont you worry you will get an invite LOL.

Zegm my engine has that Varible Vane system turbo its spooling at 1200 RPM and by 2K its pumping 20 PSI i misread the boost gauge it goes red at 40 but looks to read normal up to 35PSI. As for injection pressure idk yet. Ive been reading like crazy on this engine and drive line. Looks like i got the best of the 6.0 even though there general rep isnt as good.

Main problem with them seems to be when you modify them they tend to fail more often. So if i do change anything i think it would only be for extra milage. At 325 HP and 570FT of torque i think ill be fine LOL.

[moombadaze]

Wish the one of big 3 would put a oil burner in a 1/2 ton.