Avcr And The Actuator

[Paradis v.1]

Can someone confirm whether or not when you use an electronic boost controller, does that negate the differences between using rb20 vs say rb25 wastegate actuators.

I remember reading once that the difference in is like 7 to 10psi or so though if you use say an AVCR it nullifies the advantage in sticking with a rb20 actuator.

-Chris

[Birnie]

RB25 wastgate act. is 5psi, RB20 is 10psi

Changing to the RB20 means the AVCR doesn't have to work as hard.

That's the theory anyway, don't know if it makes any difference in the real world though.

Just use whatever you have and go for it.

If you wanna change actuators later, it's only a 5-10min job anyway

..so the answer is yes, you should get close to the same results with either

[Paradis v.1]

Cool.

well i have both actuators, and i know that using the rb20 one does give a significant increase over the rb25. however i've heard the AVCR does all the work and the rating of the actuator is irrelevant.

[Paradis v.1]

anyone else?

[Hardman69]

anyone else?

If You only wanna run 12-13psi, go with the 5psi rb25 actuator, to give the AVC-R more control. If You wanna punch more into it, go the 10psi RB20 actuator so that it won't crack the wastegate open until 10 pound. This'll help quicken spool-up, by not bleeding any gas past the wastegate.

The AVC-R will start tweakin the solenoid at 0.3 bar regardless, so I doubt it'd affect how hard it works, only the duty cycle.

[Paradis v.1]

huh, ok. thanks for the heads up

[MANWHORE]

In otherwords, he's saying read birnies post

at stockish boost levels, I found that changing actuators with an ebc didn't really do much in terms of spool time. What it did do is it made it hard to make it slightly over wath the actuator is rated to e.g. with the r32 actuator (11ish psi), it was harder to run 12 psi than with the rb25 actuator.

[Paradis v.1]

well i'm running about 17 psi. Guess i'll through the old '32 on