rahjan123 Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Hi guys I have a 2001 1.6 golf 4 comfortline, I have a few problems with it. 1. The car tends to switch of when Idling and only starts after a few good swings. 2. while normal driving the rev counter rev's up to 4000 revs where it stays till I pull over and restart the engine. but if I carry on driving it develops a miss fire. Please help. mail me if possible [email protected] Oh and I fitted a branch and freeflow as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Hi! Welcome to TSN! What's a 'branch'? Have you changed all the spark plugs? Cleaned the Butterfly Valve on the inlet manifold, cleaned or changed the MAF (Mass air flow meter on the air intake pipe behind the air filter)? Also, was the car running fine before you fitted all these bits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 What's a 'branch'? I'd guess it's a 4 branch manifold (with a freeflow exhaust). They look like a bunch of bananas and, with high horsepower engines make a difference to getting the gases out quicker and providing equal back-pressure to all cylinders - check the exhuast on an F1 car to see what I mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Here you go... But it won't look anything like this on a 1.6 Golf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Here you go...But it won't look anything like this on a 1.6 Golf Will it do anything positive on a 1.6 Golf? (or any non high revving road going engine?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mook Posted January 7, 2009 Report Share Posted January 7, 2009 Absolutely nothing, but I wasn't going to say that. In all honesty, if you've got a 1.6 Golf, which is one of the least tuneable engines from VW, you'd be better off buying another car if you want more performance, but that's not always an option for anyone. You don't have to have a high revving engine to get an advantage from a multi-branch manifold, it's more to do with power than revs. Well tuned V8s definitely benefit from them as much as 1.8 turbos etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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