so heres the story when i bought my e6 it had a bunch of useless parts in it (seems to be the curse of the used evo) that ive slowly been replacing with either newer stock pieces from the e8 n e9 anyways it had a gfb electronic boost controller that my tuner removed a few months ago as i had purchased a stock boost solenoid and was waiting for it to arrive in the meantime my tuner just routed a hose from the turbo nipple straight to the wastegate no pill or t just a straight hose. this setup ran fine no problems at all boost would hit 1 bar n taper off at the top all pretty normal. so the other day the boost solenoid came in and i went to install it now heres the mystery that i need help with, i cant seem to find the plug that goes into the solenoid...its gone..nowhere to be found in the engine bay. now i thought that since the gfb boost controller was on there that the original solenoid must have been left plugged in and its hose connections capped but that doesnt seem to be the case whats even stranger is my car has never shown a check engine light which it should have if the stock solenoid had been unplugged or straight missing...right?? does anyone have ne idea where it is or why this is? ive checked the whole engine bay and there are no signs of it. i have the solenoid in there now hooked up with the hoses n pill routed correctly and it drives even better boost builds accordingly and it peaks a little over 1 bar and tapers it definetly drives waay better but the solenoid itself is still not plugged in i just have it mounted where it should by the airbox and no check engine light..nothin..drives great but this mystery is buggin me any thoughts from the forum would be appreciated

 

The factory boost control solenoid lives under the carbon canister.

Go here as the pic in the post shows it:
http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=345111

Does it look like the loom has been altered, the plug may have been cut off if the plug is indeed missing.

 

just rechecked that area and nope no solenoid there its just an empty space any other ideas? i did find a hose coming from the air intake pipe just after the maf going to a plug but it doesnt look like a solenoid ill try to get a good pic of it tomorrow morning for ya

 

finally got a pic of what could be the boost solenoid can anyone confirm this? i followed the hose from right after the maf on the intake pipe and it led me to this which was right behind the intake manifold on the firewall the second connection had no hose connected and it was not capped. the numbers on it read K5T80186 6712

 

bump anyone?