HELP SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY USING THE FOLLOW LINKS AND PROMO CODE FOR YOUR PURCHASES!!! - APR: www.goapr.com/? - TUNEZILLA (SAVE 15%): Promo Code "VANCITYAUDI" at tunezilla.com/ UPDATE: EQT offered to participate 2 days before I performed my Stage 1 - 91 Octane - Low Torque dyno comparison. Their stipulation to participating was that when all of my testing was complete, I had to return the software & the hardware. This is not the same agreement I have with the rest of the participating companies. It is not fair that they would get to benefit from participating in this comparison and not have to honour the same agreement that I have with the rest of the field. They were not willing to budge and match the same offer as the rest of the companies, so they are not participating. I informed them that if they would like to play by the same rules as the rest of the companies participating, I'd love to have them on board moving forward.
So nice to hear someone speaking out against negativity. There's SO much of that out there today, and it's tiring. This battle sounds awesome! Can't wait to see how it goes
To be able to come out and admit things you have done wrong or said wrongly in the past just shows how mature and honest of a person you are. That was really cool. We need more people like you
This is going to be awesome!!Unfortunately one thing you can’t truly test is reliability/longevity of course. I know when i look into tuning the highest power always looks the most attractive, but i also love to see how long companies have been tuning that platform and hearing from their current customers online. Anyone can tune aggressively but safety is key. Looking forward to this!
Very true. All of these companies have been tuning VAG cars for years, so I trust that they've all taken reliability and longetivity into consideration as well when making their software.
They certainly do! They're the only company thus far to put in a solid effort with the PMAX turbo upgrade from Garrett. Iit should be one hell of a good racing season!
Great video; looking forward to seeing the results of your testing. Wondering where you take your daily’s for wheel alignment? Do you stick with mostly OEM alignment specs (even with lowered suspension etc)? I have a modified Mk5 KO4 GTI on coilovers, modest drop, and I’ve had unsatisfactory results from 2 recent alignment attempts…
The only shop I trust to do alignments on my daily drivers and my racecar is Dale's in Langley. Let them know I sent you, and they'll take great care of you.
Dude, this is EXACTLY the comparison I've been waiting for!!! I have the APR stage 1 low torque and can't wait to see if I should keep it or jump ship. APR does claim an almost stage 2 leap in performance numbers with a performance intercooler and intake, which I do have on my MK8. Is your intercooler and intake setup stock, or have those been modified?
So, I’m the only one I know of in the MK7 GTI/R community, that runs an 87oct file. I’ve been using it for over 2 years, and it’s currently on WMI. I’m IS38. I’ve had zero issues using 87oct, but I have been custom tuned for it, through Frank Mabo using Maestro software. The car won’t reach as much boost as a 91oct file, but it’s still peppy enough for a daily. Best thing about it is the gas savings. Mpg’s are the same.
Absolutely not. That is one of the disclaimers I forgot to include in the video. After all of the R&D each of these companies put into their software I will not be sharing that info with the public. That would be extremely unfair and rude of me.
From what APR told me. In order for the APR + limited power train warranty to cover your vehicle. Your vehicle has to have either oem or APR approved hardware. Meaning if you have any products installed other than APR. That warranty will not cover your power train. Meaning if your intercooler, charge and boost pipes, air intake system, turbo inlet pipe and silicone hose, and short shifter just to name a few upgrades. And they arent made by APR. Then APR's APR+ warranty will not cover your power train.
You are correct. For many people looking to get more power out of their GTI's though, that are fine with running APR hardware as well to squeeze out some more power, it looks like an awesome idea. We'll find out how awesome soon enough.
It would be nice if you could do the back to back testing overnight and into the morning, when the density altitude and temps wouldn't fluctuate as much.
😂 If you know of a local dyno shop that's open throughout the night you let me know, lol. Plus there's no way I'm spending my entire evening and into the middle of the night dyno testing cars, haha. I like to help the community doing this stuff, but I'm not nuts.
@THEE_BRZRKR you clearly don't know the guys at RG too well, lol. The day I have planned to do the first round of testing is only supposed to fluctuate by 3 degrees Celsius.
I went over the octane I'll be starting with and testing multiple times in the video. The car will have all stock hardware for the first batch of testing.
@BenTroxell I'm always happy to answer questions that weren't answered in the video. If people ask me things that I have already gone over, I'm just wasting my time seeing as all they had to do was watch the video to have their question answered, lol
@@slymarbo4046 I'm ultimately wondering if they will have an advantage over all the big companies because they specifically made this tune on the fuel that is in my gas tank, haha
Funny just today APR dealer sent me back home saying they don’t support the box code while racingline dealer said they tuned a 40 anniversary S0002 box code which should just be emissions update from my S0001 box code. APR - no go Racingline - fingers crossed will come through for me.
HELP SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY USING THE FOLLOW LINKS AND PROMO CODE FOR YOUR PURCHASES!!!
- APR: www.goapr.com/?
- TUNEZILLA (SAVE 15%): Promo Code "VANCITYAUDI" at tunezilla.com/
UPDATE: EQT offered to participate 2 days before I performed my Stage 1 - 91 Octane - Low Torque dyno comparison. Their stipulation to participating was that when all of my testing was complete, I had to return the software & the hardware.
This is not the same agreement I have with the rest of the participating companies. It is not fair that they would get to benefit from participating in this comparison and not have to honour the same agreement that I have with the rest of the field.
They were not willing to budge and match the same offer as the rest of the companies, so they are not participating.
I informed them that if they would like to play by the same rules as the rest of the companies participating, I'd love to have them on board moving forward.
Frickin’ awesome segment. Apologies are hard as hell, huge respect on both sides.
The apology was the easy part. It was the time it took to realize I was in the wrong that was difficult.
Let's go! Excited for this one.
Adam kudos for being honest. So looking forward to these tests!!!
So nice to hear someone speaking out against negativity. There's SO much of that out there today, and it's tiring. This battle sounds awesome! Can't wait to see how it goes
Adam G.O.A.T Thx For Coming Video Ccomparations Differents Tunes
This is just the series I am looking for. I can't wait, LFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let’s gooo man I can’t wait for this, the video that I been looking since day one ownership on my mk8 lol good luck with everything 🔥
Thanks! This is gonna be a blast!
To be able to come out and admit things you have done wrong or said wrongly in the past just shows how mature and honest of a person you are. That was really cool. We need more people like you
We all make mistakes in this world. It's about how we come back from them that makes all the difference.
@@VancityAudi Yes we do. Can’t wait to see the GTI content. Wish it was a R but I get why you are doing GTI. Close enough
@mqbr22 if I was a wealthier man, I absolutely would of had a Golf R.
Great video great idea can't wait for this seeing the results
Thank you
Great video and kudos to you for owning up and being honest. Looking forward to the following videos.
Thank you
Hell yes, Adam!! Looking forward to this!
You and I both!
great video again Adam, looking forward to see the results 😁
You and me both!
Stand up guy! Appreciate you making things right with 034. Big fan here so I’m rooting for them…
I'm rooting for anyone that gets the peak performance out of my ride!
@@VancityAudiI appreciate that non-biased method! I unfortunately, am…. lol
I’m very excited for this! I have been very curious about the APR plus vs Unitronics comparison.
It should be awesome!
This is awesome Adam. Nice one, this will be popular!
Thank you.
This is going to be awesome!!Unfortunately one thing you can’t truly test is reliability/longevity of course. I know when i look into tuning the highest power always looks the most attractive, but i also love to see how long companies have been tuning that platform and hearing from their current customers online. Anyone can tune aggressively but safety is key. Looking forward to this!
Very true. All of these companies have been tuning VAG cars for years, so I trust that they've all taken reliability and longetivity into consideration as well when making their software.
@@VancityAudi Agreed! Hopefully I’ll be able to tune my 8Y RS3 by one these soon lol 🙏
Excellent!
034 has the world record for the MK8 GTi in the 1/4 mile so this should be fun to watch!
They certainly do! They're the only company thus far to put in a solid effort with the PMAX turbo upgrade from Garrett. Iit should be one hell of a good racing season!
This is going to be EPIC! Pretty disappointed IE isn't joining the party but oh well still very excited!
Same! I've built some awesome cars using IE software & and hardware, and I expect their Mk8 stuff would have been amazing as well.
Great video; looking forward to seeing the results of your testing.
Wondering where you take your daily’s for wheel alignment? Do you stick with mostly OEM alignment specs (even with lowered suspension etc)? I have a modified Mk5 KO4 GTI on coilovers, modest drop, and I’ve had unsatisfactory results from 2 recent alignment attempts…
The only shop I trust to do alignments on my daily drivers and my racecar is Dale's in Langley. Let them know I sent you, and they'll take great care of you.
Dude, this is EXACTLY the comparison I've been waiting for!!! I have the APR stage 1 low torque and can't wait to see if I should keep it or jump ship.
APR does claim an almost stage 2 leap in performance numbers with a performance intercooler and intake, which I do have on my MK8. Is your intercooler and intake setup stock, or have those been modified?
The first batch of dyno testing will be done on all stock hardware. Eventually I'll be testing with a full array of bolt on parts though.
Glad to hear your apology to 034, that's mad respect. I definitely subscribed and cant wait to see the tests
Thanks for the sub!
So, I’m the only one I know of in the MK7 GTI/R community, that runs an 87oct file. I’ve been using it for over 2 years, and it’s currently on WMI. I’m IS38. I’ve had zero issues using 87oct, but I have been custom tuned for it, through Frank Mabo using Maestro software. The car won’t reach as much boost as a 91oct file, but it’s still peppy enough for a daily. Best thing about it is the gas savings. Mpg’s are the same.
Ya, I'm really excited to see what it can do on the 87 octane tune.
Good luck Adam, you have to use the machine at the right behind you in this video a lot :)
Lol, I wish I used that a lot! That belongs to Reiter Performance, not me.
Killer! Will you be showing a datalog for each dyno pull?
Absolutely not. That is one of the disclaimers I forgot to include in the video. After all of the R&D each of these companies put into their software I will not be sharing that info with the public. That would be extremely unfair and rude of me.
@VancityAudi makes sense and yeah I would think that they wouldn't participate if so. Duh 🤣
From what APR told me. In order for the APR + limited power train warranty to cover your vehicle. Your vehicle has to have either oem or APR approved hardware. Meaning if you have any products installed other than APR. That warranty will not cover your power train. Meaning if your intercooler, charge and boost pipes, air intake system, turbo inlet pipe and silicone hose, and short shifter just to name a few upgrades. And they arent made by APR. Then APR's APR+ warranty will not cover your power train.
You are correct. For many people looking to get more power out of their GTI's though, that are fine with running APR hardware as well to squeeze out some more power, it looks like an awesome idea. We'll find out how awesome soon enough.
Where you getting the UM tune? Would love one also if you guys start supplying
Local to me, CTS Turbo sells UM. Or you can simply go to their website and order it direct.
Were you driving around dt poco Shaughnessy last night in the snow ? Saw a pomello yellow looked similar 😂
😂 HELL NO! As much as I have some decent snow tires, I would never head out in the snow voluntarily in my GTI.
@@VancityAudi hahha well dang someone was !!
@@geminierica4077to my knowledge there or 5 or 6 of us snot coloured GTI's in the Lower Mainland.
@@VancityAudi it was lowered with silver wheels (didn't see too close) looked a bit similar.
It would be nice if you could do the back to back testing overnight and into the morning, when the density altitude and temps wouldn't fluctuate as much.
😂 If you know of a local dyno shop that's open throughout the night you let me know, lol. Plus there's no way I'm spending my entire evening and into the middle of the night dyno testing cars, haha. I like to help the community doing this stuff, but I'm not nuts.
@@VancityAudi I figured the guys at Racing Greed might sacrifice some sleep for science. 😂
@THEE_BRZRKR you clearly don't know the guys at RG too well, lol. The day I have planned to do the first round of testing is only supposed to fluctuate by 3 degrees Celsius.
What octane are you testing on? Does your MK8 have an intercooler or intake? Sorry if you mentioned it, I skipped around a bit.
I went over the octane I'll be starting with and testing multiple times in the video. The car will have all stock hardware for the first batch of testing.
@@VancityAudigreat answer 😂
@BenTroxell I'm always happy to answer questions that weren't answered in the video. If people ask me things that I have already gone over, I'm just wasting my time seeing as all they had to do was watch the video to have their question answered, lol
@@VancityAudi you just wasted your time typing out that response 🫡
@BenTroxell totally worth it in my eyes so other people can read it and understand. I already knew you were a lost cause 😂
UM for the win!
Wish Jackal were involved as Tony is a great tuner
To my knowledge, Jackal isn't an OTS or canned tuner
@VancityAudi i believe they just offer few platforms. 4.2, 3.0t, 4.0t and ea888
@@craigauty6756 I just looked on their website and don't see any tunes for an EA888 EVO
What about Revo?
Never even considered them, seeing as they're a nobody in North America. Not only that, they don't offer an OTS Mk8 GTI tune.
You still getting that hpa car to come do some runs ??
We still have that planned for this year, yes.
Awesome
Really interested in how tunezilla does on this show down leaning towards them for a tune so this will cool to see
@@slymarbo4046 I'm ultimately wondering if they will have an advantage over all the big companies because they specifically made this tune on the fuel that is in my gas tank, haha
@@VancityAudi 100% my thoughts
I wish somebody would get a DSG for the MK8 already.
EQT>
Considering they opted out of this comparison, we'll never know.
Interesting no RPI Equipped! in the battle.
RPI Equipped does not make software. They are simply a dealer for some of these companies I'm testing.
Ahh right. I never knew 034Motorsport made their own software.@@VancityAudi
People still patronize APR?
It worked really well as proven here: ruclips.net/video/8rIRQ4NvOWs/видео.html
Funny just today APR dealer sent me back home saying they don’t support the box code while racingline dealer said they tuned a 40 anniversary S0002 box code which should just be emissions update from my S0001 box code.
APR - no go
Racingline - fingers crossed will come through for me.
Ya, box codes and what each company has figured out is a finicky thing for sure.