amount of boost
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RE: amount of boost
on the stock k03 turbo it can handle 20-23psi consistantly/reliably. There is no chip out there that is designed to put out more than 20ish psi so there's not a whole lot to worry about. The only other way to up the boost higher than that is to get a manual boost controler which isnt recomended at all.
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RE: amount of boost
ORIGINAL: JohnnyBravoA4
dose he mean stock motor as in with a BT set up or just stock everything..
dose he mean stock motor as in with a BT set up or just stock everything..
If thats the case then I guess we will just have to wait for Jeff to chime in about when he ran 40psi and it was all good.
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RE: amount of boost
I wouldn know, i just installed my boost gauge and im trying to figure out how to read it myself. Does anybody know what its supposed to be? right now with car running its at about 20Hg and in first gear i dont get past 0psi but in second when i floor it it sometimes hits 8psi but then drops right down to 5psi and after that it just wont go past 5 psi, is that normal?
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RE: amount of boost
ORIGINAL: southcoast
I wouldn know, i just installed my boost gauge and im trying to figure out how to read it myself. Does anybody know what its supposed to be? right now with car running its at about 20Hg and in first gear i dont get past 0psi but in second when i floor it it sometimes hits 8psi but then drops right down to 5psi and after that it just wont go past 5 psi, is that normal?
I wouldn know, i just installed my boost gauge and im trying to figure out how to read it myself. Does anybody know what its supposed to be? right now with car running its at about 20Hg and in first gear i dont get past 0psi but in second when i floor it it sometimes hits 8psi but then drops right down to 5psi and after that it just wont go past 5 psi, is that normal?
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RE: amount of boost
yeah, i think i hit like 3psi ONE time in first gear and it is 5psi consistantly when i have pedal to the medal and when i let go of gas it will go to 25Hg and then back to 20Hg, so for stock i should spike 10 then huh, could it be diverter valve? i think it still has the stock one on. but yeah, in first gear it really wont go past 0psi.
