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lol.... You're going to get a ticket for smoking the tires, just wait! lol.... I assume you're doing the rally with coty?

I was reading Warp3's thread about the oil dipstick poping out, and it made me recall that my transmission dipstick keeps poping out. Any suggestions?

Whoohoo, more boost for Shane! lol.... SO are you going to drive the RX in the highlands rally Sunday? hehe....

this is something I've been thinking about as well. I've metioned it to wjm, as we have a Mustang AWD dyno just about 30 minutes from here in Mooresville, NC. If I take my car up, I can pull the MBC and it will give us some fairly close to baseline numbers, as the only other mods I have is a bottomless airbox and a glasspack in place of the factory muffler. I actually wanted to dyno it a couple pulls without the mbc, and a couple with it, with the boost up ~12psi.

it seems to run best set at 10psi. (does spike 12psi at first though). Didn't get pics of the bov yet, as we just finished getting WJM's motor back in his RX. Will get pics tomorrow.

hopefully WJM and I have stumbled upon a nice spring upgrade for those who want to go lower instead of higher. We began testing today. Actually, we just finished his head gaskets a minute ago and he's on the way home now. lol...

sounds like the thermostat. Does the radiator feel cold?

So now that I can finally find the message board again. argh I flopped ends, removed the hole (so to say) and the car peaks 12psi, drops back to 10psi and stays there. It runs smooth with no hesitations or signs of fuel cut. Tomorrow morning I will probably jack it back up just a hair. I also got my BOV installed. I'll snap pics of that tomorrow as well.

I must say, in my defence, it was sub 30 degrees & dark outside when I installed! lol....

true. It will be interesting to see what it does on the way home after switching it around. Yeah, I want to do that as well. If I get this thing sorted, I will probably back it down to 10psi, as it still feels strong up until just after that.

Oh, and I guess if you do that, you no longer have a vaccum leak! Damn this actually makes a little sense! ROFL....

I'll have to swap ends when I leave work. So expect an update about fuel cut or not when I get home ~5pm.

I've been known to stumble upon very interesting findings by doing things the wrong way. It's sort of my trademark! lol.... (are you worried about the boost controller yet? lol.... j/k, I follwed the instructions on the assembly, just not the installation. lol....)

Well I know, and that's why I said I just relized I had it hooked up wrong. But where should it go? Same place, different direction? Different Place? I find it really odd that it was working anyway. lol.... (well sort of anyway ROFL....)

Oh, and can I please request the title "boostaholic" under my name? hehe.... And warp3 needs "Boost, my precious" as he is the most reserved person you will ever meet until you put him in a turbo car! ROFL....

We really need to talk about what we know (or what you know) about the hole in the side of the boost controller. I started thinking about it more at lunch, and it seems that no matter how lightly I adjust this thing, the car still seems to boost ~13-14psi. Now, when it really hit me, is when I was adjusting it again, to shoot for 10psi, as I wanted to see if the car got rid of that running out of breath feeling. Ok, so several things that (duh) came into my head when starting to think about why the car wouldn't adjust down to 10psi. First of all, the hole is bad. To be good, it would need a check valve pointed in the direction that it could blow out, but not suck in, otherwise the car has a vaccum leak, right? Also If that hole is really the controlling factor in the MINIMUM boost you can run, right? If we knew what boost we wanted to run, and didn't want to make it adjustable, we could elimate the whole silly spring and bearing mess and just put a hole properly sized for what boost we want & a check valve, right? Also, for anyone else out there that is running a manual boost controller: where do you have it connected? Mine is right in the middle of the line that goes from the wastegate to the boost controller, with the ball bearing pointed towards the wastegate. And you know, that now hits me as incorrect. Maybe the only reason I'm running more boost is the fact that the little hole is leaking all of the time. You know, I think i'm just nuts in fact! lol... Here is another oddity: I put some high quality electric tape over the hole for testing purposes, and the car will now boost to like 14psi and then you shift gears and it won't go over stock boost ~7psi. WEIRD SH*T! Any comments? Skip, Dr RX, Tex??? Anyone? hehe... This is fun.

Yeah, that's where I actually went with a leftover factory Subaru bolt from some previous stripping project. Oh, and I threaded the pipe piece metric to fit the bolt! So mine is more anatomically correct! ROFLMAO...... Steven

'tis strange. I don't think the exhuast is plugged up, as the car runs smooth at all other times. The exhaust is stock except for a glass pack in place of the muffler. (it sounds like a little baby version of my gt! lol....) The intake is a currently a normal filter, but the bottom of the air box has been removed and the little plastic thing from the top of the box has been removed. I honestly think the turbo is just out of breath. I will be getting a little more accurate boost gauge in this weekend, so we'll see where it's really running. I may also turn it back just a couple of pounds this morning and see how it feels.

mine has quite a bit of free room inside, but it all seems to stay together ok.

Ok, you can have the one I build for instructional purposes. PM me your mailing info. I'll probably build in on Saturday. If I send it via us postal, the total should be ~$9 for the parts and postage.

lol.... Ok.

Man, you're making it too complex! lol.... Do you want me to make you one? I can do it for about $7. I used the dremel to cut the 'sleeve' off of the female air adapter, then the bearings just fall right out. I also didn't go with exactly the same parts as the diagram. I guess I'll build another one this weekend and do a writeup with pictures. The parts I went with seemed a little more plentiful. lol... Shane, What did you do for a spring? I think that's the only department where mine needs a bit of improvement.

No problem. hehe.... If you need a bearing, I've got three more.

Thanks for the input Skip! I definatly know that I need to polish the setup a little. I will move the boost gauge location and see what I find there. By your description of the fuel cut, the car is most definatly not hitting the fuel cut.

well we went back out a bit ago. The car seems to loose power, but it doesn't seem to be the fuel cut. If I am correct, the fuel cut is a hard rev limit type power loss. I'm just getting to a point where it's like hitting a wall. Just no more power.