FWIW, I've never seen black smoke out the exhaust on a properly calibrated engine with a true 11.2:1 AFR at WOT. If you are pulling excessive timing or using excessive fuel to compensate for excessive boost or excessive static compression, etc. then it is very possible that black smoke will result. It would be better to lower the boost/compression ratio as late timing results in burn-down of the intake charge in the exhaust manifolds at higher RPMs causing extreme thermal load to the exhaust valves, ex. manifold, turbos, CATs, etc.
I realize that for years some "tuners" have used excessive fuel and retarded ignition to try and eek out a few more top end HP but it's bad for the engine to do this as mentioned above.
Don't disagree with any of the above, but unfortunately, most of VAG's turbo line up has extremely high CRs, and there is no avoiding the realities of a 91oct tune on the west coast.
This means 11.5-11.6:1 and a lot of pulled timing, even with gaskets to lower compression... leading to black smoke on occasion at peak torque and single digit timing. In any case, I ran my 2.7t with 100% stock internals for 150k of very hard miles, at 2+x stock torque, many track days etc. with 11.6:1 and enough pulled timing for 91oct (even with lowered CR gaskets) and it eventually gave out (bearings/rods, not heads/valves/exhaust etc), so your warning should not go unheeded. Pay to play, no matter what you build.
BTW nyet, I have been reading here for some time and I realize that you are a great contributor to the forum and I respect this. Now that I am active on the forum I am sharing my firsthand experience to help the community. There can always be exceptions to the norm or individual situations where there is a need to deviate some from established best practices but the above AFRs have proven reliable in a variety of engines in 400 hour WOT engine dyno durability tests and actual highway operation.
I don't want to see newbies damaging their engines from trying to used excess fuel as a crutch for excessive boost, timing, compression, etc. or engine damage from lean AFRs.
Understood, and your experience and offer to share information is welcomed.