NCT Popcorn limiter

BartoszM8

Will coding on a popcorn limiter/hardcut limiter onto your car make you fail the NCT?

statto25

Not at all they love the noise. You get bonus points if it's firing out black smoke too.

*Real Answer: yes it will*

BartoszM8

statto25 wrote: »

Not at all they love the noise. You get bonus points if it's firing out black smoke too.

*Real Answer: yes it will*

Thanks

Fabio

What's a popcorn limiter?!

Tazzimus

Fabio wrote: »

What's a popcorn limiter?!

I would also like to know this.
Is it a boo machine thing?

Pkiernan

Its mainly for boy racers to make their crap cars sound even more crap.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dubd-ZtVThAU&ved=2ahUKEwjU_ImTmMXrAhW5UxUIHXX6DScQwqsBMAB6BAgIEAM&usg=AOvVaw1N-3w9lzYwzRGqxn-sY6My


It ranks up there with the exhaust whistle

Tazzimus

Pkiernan wrote: »

Its mainly for boy racers to make their crap cars sound even more crap.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dubd-ZtVThAU&ved=2ahUKEwjU_ImTmMXrAhW5UxUIHXX6DScQwqsBMAB6BAgIEAM&usg=AOvVaw1N-3w9lzYwzRGqxn-sY6My


It ranks up there with the exhaust whistle

See that'd sound alright on something decent, it sounds like launch control/two step, possibly slightly anti lag ish
On a diesel golf though, no.

sumo12

BartoszM8 wrote: »

Will coding on a popcorn limiter/hardcut limiter onto your car make you fail the NCT?

A what? And why?

_Kaiser_

Tazzimus wrote: »

See that'd sound alright on something decent, it sounds like launch control/two step, possibly slightly anti lag ish
On a diesel golf though, no.

I gather the more black smoke the better too. Why you'd want to destroy the back of your car (as in that vid above) and have it look like you have a serious fault is beyond me.

_Kaiser_

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I gather the more black smoke the better too. Why you'd want to destroy the back of your car (as in that vid above) and have it look like you have a serious fault is beyond me.

they think making their Micra sound like it has a hole in the exhaust is good as well

Tazzimus

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I gather the more black smoke the better too. Why you'd want to destroy the back of your car (as in that vid above) and have it look like you have a serious fault is beyond me.

I've seen that on a load of cars down where the GF lives.
Rest of the car is spotless and the back is just soot, agri spec I think?
The fact that's even a thing....

selectamatic

It'd very much depend on how the limiter is mapped wouldn't it. Just having one wouldn't in of itself be a fail. A launch control one at lower revs around 2500rpm won't pass though.

If the limiter is mapped in as part of a "reek" map then it's almost definitely going to cause the car to fail the smoke test if the map is quite clean you might be alright but it'll be touch and go because any popcorn limiter I've ever seen throws out a bit of smoke.

The idea of a popcorn limiter is to give a diesel car a more petrol like limiter where hitting it just before a gear change will result in less of a loss power/forward momentum than the way diesels normally would nose over when rev'd above their powerband. However most just get one because they like the sound.

It's more relevant to modified diesels where power is being made right up to redline.

Miike

Pkiernan wrote: »

Its mainly for boy racers to make their crap cars sound even more crap.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dubd-ZtVThAU&ved=2ahUKEwjU_ImTmMXrAhW5UxUIHXX6DScQwqsBMAB6BAgIEAM&usg=AOvVaw1N-3w9lzYwzRGqxn-sY6My


It ranks up there with the exhaust whistle

I genuinely thought you were joking so I googled it myself. Nope, you're not joking.