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Old Jun 16, 2011 | 02:46 PM
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Does anyone know of a case where someone has installed an (rotational) electric solenoid on their roots style blower to replace the vacuum based actuator?

I am looking for a more customised way of controlling the SC and the ability to simply disable the SC based on road conditions and for valet reasons.

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Old Jun 17, 2011 | 06:59 AM
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Hmmmm sounds like a great idea full stop! would bve very nice on turbo cars and potencially enable decent mapped boost curves. (i think you can already do this, to a degree)
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Old Jun 17, 2011 | 08:20 AM
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The factory type valves work off vac, you would probably need an outside pressure source for control. If you had an outside pressure source the pulse valve from the Cobalt turbo could be used.

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