STS Guys Help Plz!!!!
STS Guys Help Plz!!!! Ok I just got done installing my kit acouple weeks back got a streetable tune in it because I had some problems at the dyno fixed them and the tuner told me to just cruise around pull acouple pounds of boost and that's it just see how its running. Well I went to do that and my boost gauge isn't working. So I put another one in it and it's still not working. Do you have any idea what's up????I've been through and looked at my connections also. There fine I know its getting boost because I can feel it at half throttle pulling like a bitch. PLZZZ HELP ME!! Need to get fixed befor I go back friday to get the real tune. I have it hooked up at the 1 p.s.i. block thing.
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks,
Jimmy
Originally Posted by 00WS6WHITE
Ok I just got done installing my kit acouple weeks back got a streetable tune in it because I had some problems at the dyno fixed them and the tuner told me to just cruise around pull acouple pounds of boost and that's it just see how its running. Well I went to do that and my boost gauge isn't working. So I put another one in it and it's still not working. Do you have any idea what's up????I've been through and looked at my connections also. There fine I know its getting boost because I can feel it at half throttle pulling like a bitch. PLZZZ HELP ME!! Need to get fixed befor I go back friday to get the real tune. I have it hooked up at the 1 p.s.i. block thing.
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks,
Jimmy
Well that is what it is now! I even tried to go further up the line and splice in there and nothing!!! My original guage is a auto meter cobalt electronic guage the one I got from a friend is a auto meter mechanical guage. Im lost you have any ideas?
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks,
Jimmy
Originally Posted by 00WS6WHITE
Well that is what it is now! I even tried to go further up the line and splice in there and nothing!!! My original guage is a auto meter cobalt electronic guage the one I got from a friend is a auto meter mechanical guage. Im lost you have any ideas?
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks,
Jimmy
I tapped into the same vacum source as the pressure switch that comes with the STS kit, vacum source right next to the PCM.
I am tapped into the line that comes off the back of the intake, I think it might go through a check vavle or something and than Im hooked up after that just like the install told me to do. It actually said hook it up to that 1 p.s.i. switch block and I did and got nothing. I am too.
Originally Posted by 00WS6WHITE
I am tapped into the line that comes off the back of the intake, I think it might go through a check vavle or something and than Im hooked up after that just like the install told me to do. It actually said hook it up to that 1 p.s.i. switch block and I did and got nothing.
I haven't looked at my connection in quite a while, but I remember having the same problem. If you hook up the boost gauge on the wrong side of the block, it will not read boost. There is a check valve over there that will not allow boost to get to the gauge.
I am assuming you are seeing a vacuum reading...right?
I am assuming you are seeing a vacuum reading...right?
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You mean while the car is running? If so I haven't tried that but, I do know everytime I go to move it it loose it's vacumm because I can hear it release the pressure.
Well my first one didn't have the vacumm on it but the mecahical one does and It shows 20 at idle. It it seems to creep up alittle at rev but at help throttle when I feel the boost it don't budge.
Well my first one didn't have the vacumm on it but the mecahical one does and It shows 20 at idle. It it seems to creep up alittle at rev but at help throttle when I feel the boost it don't budge.
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Originally Posted by 00WS6WHITE
You mean while the car is running? If so I haven't tried that but, I do know everytime I go to move it it loose it's vacumm because I can hear it release the pressure.
That is where Im at right now. I followed the instructions just like they say that's why im so stumped about why im not reading boost. I even tried to go before the 1 p.s.i. switch and nothing happened
Originally Posted by 00WS6WHITE
That is where Im at right now. I followed the instructions just like they say that's why im so stumped about why im not reading boost. I even tried to go before the 1 p.s.i. switch and nothing happened
Well I just bought the line from the store. Also what are the odds of having 2 bad guages? An electronic one and mechanical one. I borrowed the mechanical one and I bought the electronic one. Could it be because I have the boost controller on zero even though it feels like it is comming into boost and my blow off valve it realeasing pressure? Sorry if that is a stupid question but I have no Idea. Also it is the elctronic boost controller from STS. I just thought i would put it on zero because it is a used kit and the guy wasn't sure what spring it had in it. So I didn't want to over boost it.
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks,
Jimmy
The mechanical guage is reading 20 on the vacumm. The guy I bought it from said he thinks that the spring is 7#. The controller is all the way to the minus and pushed in.
Originally Posted by 00WS6WHITE
The mechanical guage is reading 20 on the vacumm. The guy I bought it from said he thinks that the spring is 7#. The controller is all the way to the minus and pushed in.
Ok still nothing. If this help which it probably won't I have methanol injection set at 3 p.s.i. and it turns on when ever I go out and do that. So im pretty sure im running atleast 3 p.s.i. I guess im just gonna have to call STS tomarrow and ask them because im LOST! Also, I unhooked the elctronic vacumm line from the boost guage while the car was still running and it was sucking.
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks,
Jimmy
Originally Posted by 00WS6WHITE
Ok still nothing. If this help which it probably won't I have methanol injection set at 3 p.s.i. and it turns on when ever I go out and do that. So im pretty sure im running atleast 3 p.s.i. I guess im just gonna have to call STS tomarrow and ask them because im LOST! Also, I unhooked the elctronic vacumm line from the boost guage while the car was still running and it was sucking.
Thanks,
Jimmy
Thanks,
Jimmy