MaverickWH

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If his blow off valve is working, then I'm sure he's got it connected right.

What he described was that he had the BOV hooked directly to the turbo outlet line which will only see boost, and not vacuum.

I went from 3.5psi to 5psi simply be rewiring my wastegate off of the turbo outlet and into my intake elbow as that seems to be the most accurate place to measure the boost.

whynot

we are just tring to see how it is working if he has it hooked up to the turbo.

LTLHOMER

iTrader: (10)

How will it see vacuum if it's not on the engine side of the throttle body? It wouldn't see vacuum until you have already pushed all the excess air back through the compressor, which is what you are trying to eliminate by putting the BOV on there in the first place.

RealQuick

iTrader: (14)

Exactly

whynot

well, I guess it could see some vacume before the turbo spools, but it does the bov no good.

Boostaholic

iTrader: (4)

I never liked the idea of getting reference at the scroll. I can see why its useful in some situations but I'd rather have wastegates and boost gauges be run off the manifold pressure.

LTLHOMER

iTrader: (10)

I use manifold for everything except the reference to the bottom port of the wastegates...for that I run it right off the compressor outlet.

smokinHawk

iTrader: (48)

my Bov works but ill change it just to make you guys happy.
one reason i put the source on the turbo was to see less boost right no, so if theres a pressure drop on the IC the wastegate would read higher pressure and open sooner, making less boost (as i only have 42lbers in there right now.

RealQuick

iTrader: (14)

Should just put the BOV befoe the intercooler, but still need a vaccuum reference to the other side of the TB (intake).

LTLHOMER

iTrader: (10)

It's fine to run from the compressor to the wastegate. I do that on mine as well. But the BOV is what needs to be reference from the engine side of the throttle body.