Dyno Day 8/30/15 Hosted by Jackson Racing & Church Automotive Testing

[BRZtoni]

i wonder if my 9psi map is working. LOL

[Khánh]

Originally Posted by BRZtoni

i wonder if my 9psi map is working. LOL

haha is your car runningnormal yet?!

[BRZtoni]

@Khánh removed my flex fuel kit and set tune back to normal and its good.
maybe my flex fuel kit messed up but i had a hard time starting my car. my boost gauge says im hitting 7.1PSI and AFR looks good so it should be hahaha

[Khánh]

glad it's running! hope you can fix the flex fuel! do you love around an e85 station?

[aegisdrgn]

Originally Posted by Khánh

glad it's running! hope you can fix the flex fuel! do you love around an e85 station?

Yes, he does love around an e85 station. If I had the chance, I would love around an e85 station and leave momentoes of my love around the station to make sure everyone knows I love e85.

(joking joking )

[BRZtoni]

no not really. but i wanted more power O.O

[Crazypinoy9]

did a ton of logging and yup...still maxing out at 7.25psi which tells me that I'm being constrained to wastegate pressure. So maybe there's something wrong with my EBCS...

[BRZtoni]

Originally Posted by Crazypinoy9

did a ton of logging and yup...still maxing out at 7.25psi which tells me that I'm being constrained to wastegate pressure. So maybe there's something wrong with my EBCS...

possibly a different spring in the wastegate? im running a 7psi wastegate, you are prolly too

[Crazypinoy9]

Originally Posted by BRZtoni

possibly a different spring in the wastegate? im running a 7psi wastegate, you are prolly too

Yes but I should be able to go beyond that with my boost controller. I'll have it checked out. worst case scenario is i put in my 10psi Tial Q spring but it's not as accurate at running off the boost controller to manage the pressure.

[BRZtoni]

you should talk to your tuner my tuner told me
7psi wastegate and 12psi BOV

[Crazypinoy9]

yup. already spoke with Ed at Equilibrium, Zach at Delicious, and Shiv (on our SBD FB group). All are telling me something wrong with the boost controller or the line going to it. the problem with running an 8psi spring or higher on this kit is that the BOV ends up staying open at idle which isn't the best thing to have it doing. I would have to find something to shim it to compensate for that. I bought another Prodrive 3port controller which should be coming in on tuesday just in case. I'm gonna have Young at Autotuned check it out first to see if there's something indeed wrong with the the line going to the controller.

I can easily put in my 10psi BOV spring but I'd rather have a more accurate means like a boost controller managing it.

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by Crazypinoy9

yup. already spoke with Ed at Equilibrium, Zach at Delicious, and Shiv (on our SBD FB group). All are telling me something wrong with the boost controller or the line going to it. the problem with running an 8psi spring or higher on this kit is that the BOV ends up staying open at idle which isn't the best thing to have it doing. I would have to find something to shim it to compensate for that. I bought another Prodrive 3port controller which should be coming in on tuesday just in case. I'm gonna have Young at Autotuned check it out first to see if there's something indeed wrong with the the line going to the controller.

I can easily put in my 10psi BOV spring but I'd rather have a more accurate means like a boost controller managing it.

Your blow of valve doesn't regulate your boost pressure. Your wastegate does... Did you by chance put the boost controller in the line that goes to the blow off valve? These two items provide two different functions.

A turbo's pressure is regulated via exhaust flow. If you have too much pressure you bypass the turbo and let the exhaust go around it. If you have too little boost you force all (mostly all) of the air through the turbo until the pressure goes up or down. This is all done in the SBD kit with an internal wastegate.

The blow off valve could not allow you to increase boost pressure because that means the turbo would have to produce enough volume of air to allow you to bleed it out. And if you were to do it this way then you would be adding extra back pressure in the turbo manifold when it is not needed lowering efficiency.

[Crazypinoy9]

Originally Posted by nelsmar

Your blow of valve doesn't regulate your boost pressure. Your wastegate does... Did you by chance put the boost controller in the line that goes to the blow off valve? These two items provide two different functions.

A turbo's pressure is regulated via exhaust flow. If you have too much pressure you bypass the turbo and let the exhaust go around it. If you have too little boost you force all (mostly all) of the air through the turbo until the pressure goes up or down. This is all done in the SBD kit with an internal wastegate.

The blow off valve could not allow you to increase boost pressure because that means the turbo would have to produce enough volume of air to allow you to bleed it out. And if you were to do it this way then you would be adding extra back pressure in the turbo manifold when it is not needed lowering efficiency.

Well, actually you are correct. that's my mistake in my description of the problem/ my understanding of what they all described to me. I would be checking the install of the EBC but just haven;t had the time.

I bought my kit just before Chris Riggs added the 10psi wastegate actuator to the kit for free lol

[nelsmar]

Originally Posted by Crazypinoy9

Well, actually you are correct. that's my mistake in my description of the problem/ my understanding of what they all described to me. I would be checking the install of the EBC but just haven;t had the time.

I bought my kit just before Chris Riggs added the 10psi wastegate actuator to the kit for free lol

hopefully it is just a simple install error and you can swap the hoses out and be g2g!