Fitting a bleed valve

[Escy]

Yeah, basically!

The car owes me £1250 quid. I bought it to break but it's too good for that. It's taxed and tested, drives well. Don't get me wrong, if it was a stunner and i'd paid 4k for, i'd do it all properly. In this case i'm just going to turn up the boost and see what happens. It'll be fine, it's got the right mods to support a bar and it's a pretty tried and tested set-up. Looking at the modifications on it, i'd be shocked if it hadn't been running that in the past anyway.

 

[The Doc]

Just check the ign base timing before you do it, saves melting a perfectly good engine for no reason.

 

[fubar andy]

So you're not actually going to check the fuelling with a wideband or anything just try and turn the boost up with an unknown chip in the ecu and hope for the best :lol:

Yeah, basically!

...shame

 

[MarkTurbo]

It'll be fine

Famous last words :lol:

 

[Mad]

Famous last words :lol:

gotta agree with that lol. For the cost of putting the car on the dyno surely it's worth getting if checked

 

[Escy]

Definitely not.

 

[Jon Olds]

AFR: the holy grail................

 

[Escy]

If I discard the bleed valve, i've heard about a "1 bar loop" but can't find anything specific on it. I also found a post before about drilling a hole in the standard solenoid. What's the best out of those 2 methods and does anyone have links to the pages or know what section of the forum to search.

 

[Mad]

http://www.gtiroc.com/forums/showth...the-Easy-1-Bar-boost-mod&highlight=1+bar+loop

you will still need to test with an Arf gauge though to be safe

 

[MarkTurbo]

Definitely not.

Why settle for 15psi then, might as well go for 20 and let the next owner deal with the detted pistons etc :?

No wonder there's so many cheap s**tters about :lol:

 

[Escy]

I've done the boost loop today, no dice. Still 10psi

 

[PobodY]

Something wrong with the wastegate and/or actuator then.

 

[geoff pine]

Sounds like mine it never made more that 9 psi on the loop!! turned out it was the actuator that was stuffed .

 

[Escy]

How can you check the actuator? I've just pulled mine off the car, it's adjustable, I didn't think it would be as it looks standard. Are they all like that?