step away from the car and come out with your hands up!

Robert Young

 

Hahaha, this isnt the first thread i have read like this hence the go to question

Good luck!

 

OMG I thought he was being sarcastic when he said that LMFAO!

 

I went for a drive and I'm only getting about 12 psi max boost and not until about 5500rpm. ????

 

I've only worked on N/A and nitrous cars. The turbo thing is all new to me. I sure have learned a lot in the last few days.

 

Yeah, well if you're only boosting 12psi, it sounds like a boost controller problem or wastegate. You may have your vac lines setup incorrectly so make sure you check those as well.

 

The boost controller has been in the car for 9000miles and I didn't change any lines. So I'll to some research on wastegates.

 

Well if you installed a turbo and wastegate, you had to undo the line to the compressor housing nipple, and the WGA. You MAY have installed them backwards is what I was suggesting. If you didn't touch the MBC then leave it be. Here's the video for how to adjust the WGA directly from FP. You're welcome.

http://linux.forcedperformance.net/m...td-setting.mpg

 

I took off the line to the WGA(comes from the MBC) and put tape on it so i know it went back right. But i'm not sure what the compressor housing nipple is. The only small tubing I removed was from the WGA. Thanks for your help.

 

There is a nipple that comes off the compressor housing of the turbo. Stock routing has it tee'd into the WGA line. I'm not sure about an MBC since I have an EBC on my car but they should be similar, that when you add any form of BC, you override the stock BCS by plugging it, and have two lines coming from the MBC or EBC solenoid. One to the compressor housing, one to the WGA. I'm not sure if the tee stays in effect with an MBC.

 

What hose are you using for boost reference? It seems with alot of MBC's you cap the compressor housing nipple, and tee into the DV line. If that nipple isn't capped it can possibly serve as a major boost leak.

 

I took a look at the stock IX turbo that I took off and I don't see where the nipple is and it should be capped with a mbc so maybe this is my problem. I couldn't find any good pics of it anyone have one.

 

i can bet that its WGA preload

 

I watched the video and I have to do that because I didn't to it right. But I'd like to check that the compressor nipple is capped while i'm in there.

 

I gave him the video for the preload so if he already did that and it's still doing it, it may be due to that nipple he may have not capped. That's assuming he already tried the preload. I'll try to pull a picture for you bank hold on a sec.