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Blow off valve is not necessary if you are running stock boost. Theres a neat little thing called a dash pot built into your intake.. stops the throttle plate from slamming shut and backing airflow up into the compressor.

 

Heres a pic of how mine is plumbed

 

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recirc bov can be had in junkyards on such cars as

saab turbo's

mazda turbo's

a few other cars

i have a nice shiny hks ssqv valve to put on mine but then again i don't need to worry about it being recirc any more

also the hks one i have

has a adjuster so

it can be used on maf type cars and if you cna't adjust it enough

they have a recirc adapter for it as well

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You could mount it right smack on top of your existing plenum, the one that says "4wd turbo" on it....Me and subarutex chopped up my old one to make it fit, and used a stock wrx bov on it. Tight squezze but it works. I've been ok without recurculating my bov. It makes for a lil bit of rough running at idle, but nothing too incredibly serious.

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at idle?

 

it should only affect it during the times it actually is sposed to vent off

like hi psi on one side and hhi vacum on the other side of the signal hose

yours may possible be leaking .. maybe

but normally a non recirc setup will only cause problems on a maf system when it dumps all the extra air out that the ecu has already metered air for

and then with out all that air you go rich for avery short time and it stumbles trying to burn it all

 

if its plumbed for recirc style then it dumps all the metered air just in front of the turbo inlet

and behind the maf

so the sudden pressure burst off the bov keeps the maf from metering air to make up for the sudden pressure dump... if that makes any sense it does in my twisted little mind :)

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These cars will run FINE with a properly adjusted atomospheric BOV.

 

You need to adjust any BOV with shims and such so that it isn't open at idle, but open to vent the boost.

 

We have used the same set-up on a Legacy Turbo (uses a MAF sensor much like the EA82) and it worked with no problems at all. People said it could be done...Just go out and try it. On this car we replaced the stock re-circ valve with an atmospheric one

 

We spent some more money on the BOV for the Legacy Turbo (wanted more noise) so the older Atmospheric valve got passed onto an EA82T car. Once it was properly shimmed it rean without problems, and scared the piss outta people when it vented.

 

By "shims" you need to shim the spring. The "shims are nothing but washers to adjust the force of the spring.

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my hks ssqq bov has a nice adjustable bolt in it to accomplish the same thing :)

The HKS is probably one of the nicest BOV's on the market... However they also are something like 350 USD. So i'm guesing for the majority of the people wanting a BOV on their EA82T, aren't going to spend 350 on a BOV. Especially since you can do an I/C, BOV, and alot of other crap for far less money than the BOV alone

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OK, that the risk of being unpopular (never was anyway), I’ll ask the question…

 

Beyond the incredibly fashionable Chirp-Pffiisssst noise, is there any good reason to run a non-recirculate valve? Perhaps simplified plumbing, but certainly no performance gain, right? And a properly routed recirc should reduce spool time in On-Off-On throttle episodes (like shifting). No offence to those who like the sound, its cool and all, but its just for show right, or I’m I missing something here?

 

Gary

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