i,ve been reading this thread very closely, and have just about done everything here. bought a high flowed turbo(same as the pics last page) had no problems with boost on my stock turbo, set at 12 and dropped to 10 as all bleed valves do. thought id chuck on the high flow and set it to 12 to 13 psi as i still had stock injectors. went for a tune and went to 12, leveled and slowly climbed to 17 at the end of the rev range. since then i have remover the turbo and machine out the waste gate hole from 24 to 28 mm giving me a 36% increase in surface area, didn't work. had a 2 1/2 " split pulse dump pipe that i modded to a bell mouth, didn't work. got rid of the dump pipe and put a 3" bell mouth front/dump pipe on, didn't work. swapped actuators, didn't work. removed the bleed valve completely and put it directly onto the standard tapping point, didnt work. i am now about to go the other way and put a 2" restriction plate in my exhaust to see if that rectifies the problem. the car has been detuned to 230hp at the moment so i dont pop anything.
i am running a safc2, full 3" exhaust (only restriction is the cat).