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Hey Guys,

Hoping if you could help out.

This morning, my mate drove me to work in his R33 S2 manual. Mods to his car, exhaust and bleed valve. May be he can correct me here. Anyway, looking at this stock boost gauge, it was phricken jumping everywhere and boy did it sound good.

As you are aware, the readings are -7, 0 and +7. Well, at full throttle, his boost gauge would read +6 give (approx)

Now to my car.....well, its an auto, and all Ive got is a pod filter without any cai. (done purely for sound and wank factor.........not relevant to this topic)

But with my car, even at full throttle. the boost gauge will not read any more than +2, +3............I mean way down there. Now I can still feel a kick, and coming from a Commo, the turbo is obviously spooling up. My question is, is this normal?

I've heard of thing called, safety boost........is this all I'm doing. Do any autos get as high a reading as manuals? What are other people's auto experience like???

Please help!! :D Any comments appreciated.

Thanks.

Maybe others can support/reject me on this but, try turning the overdrive switch off, and see if the extra revs before the transmission changes gears improves the boost.

hey, do autos give u that nice BOV sound when it changes gears???

yes they do king...unless u are more of a ricer like me and get a bov :D but since i like the flutter noise, im stickin wid my bov...even if my car stalls like a bitch eheh

scotty: yer same thing with me man, thats how they are. my boost gauge reads im goin at roughly 7psi though (that first line after the 0). so everything with ya car iz normal dude heh

oh, and that overdrive thing doesn't effect it

My stock boost guage used to read like that... Since I've replaced the stock bleed valve with an aftermarket one & upped the boost to 10psi (Stock Turbo/Cooler), the standard boost guage reads 3/4 on full boost (between 0 to +7).

Cheers,

C.

Thanks Guys,

Your comments are definitely appreciated. Hmm, so if I get a EBC or bleed valve, it will give me more boost right?........which in turn means more power right...........which means more fun right?? :D

Would you guys suggest it? skyguy3804 you've done it, recommend it?

Oh yeah and ApacheX/hippy a eternal venting bov, well, i have a Trust pod filter right now and thats already hella loud. Suction is great. If I get a bov as well, damn, I can just imagine it now. pffft from the pod and bov..........that could draw some serious unwanted attention! :)

Thanks again!

hey ApacheX - is yours an atmo BOV? i am interested in that sort of sound but i am also in vic where it is kinda a no-no. Not too loud tho - just a little louder than stockie. Do u get lots of unwanted attention?

Been pulled over by the cops for an inspection before? How did that go? Do they know what they're looking for?

Scotty,

Definately recommend it - when you get the bleed valve put on, you'll have to get it dyno'ed to get more boost out of it - who ever dyno's it can set the boost on the bleed valve to whatever you like! - Just for safety's sake - most ppl (inc. me) only run at 10psi (from std 7psi) with std turbo/intercooler - difference is about 15-20rwkw more power!!! - so it's definately a fun thing to do. If you nail it off the line in 'Drive' you should get wheelspin with std 16"x7" rims & tyres. I've been running with 10psi boost for about a year now & never had a problem

Guest RedLineGTR

let say retail prices..not the cheapest u can find but around that.

New jap brand boost gauge = $300 BLeed valve = $100

All together its like $400 bucks...for maybe $50 more u can get a second hand ebc with the boost display on it. No spikes no worries.

Originally posted by king_kw13

hey ApacheX - is yours an atmo BOV? i am interested in that sort of sound but i am also in vic where it is kinda a no-no. Not too loud tho - just a little louder than stockie. Do u get lots of unwanted attention?

Been pulled over by the cops for an inspection before? How did that go? Do they know what they're looking for?

ey man, where u from in vic?

the only unwanted attention i get is from vl drivers that wanna take me :)

i have to rev over 3k for my bov to go off, and since i got an auto, i can just let it automatically change and the bov doesn't go off. but yes, my bov iz atmo and its loud heh

i haven't been pulled over yet (thank god), they straight away look for ya pod and ya bov. ive been told they are the 2 main things they look for, so be careful man :)

scotty, do u have an exhaust system atm? coz if u wanna get a bleeed valve, do your exhaust first

Nah,

I don't have an exhaust as yet, and to be honest, I'm not too sure if I want one or not.

I mean, I understand its probably the first thing to get, but I can't stand a loud drony car........and honestly, stock isn't that bad. Well, I think mine is stock, has two tail pipes in the end looks around 2.5inches thick....... kingKW, maybe you could confirm here. But yeah, a loud exhaust is not something I'm really going for at the moment. :)

if you dont want exhaust, upping the boost wouldnt help much.

mines an auto too. im running apexi twin cham BOV/incorporating the stock plumback. on low rpm it will plumb the charge air back which wont stall the car. on boost the apexi will take over most of the pressure which will give a nice bark.

just wondering what sort of power fig do you guys have with what mods?

ron

ApacheX- I live in the SE Burbs - near the Glen - if you see a white S2 hooning around - gimme a wave!! u got problems with stalling with your atmo BOV?

Ron - u got an Apexi BOV with plumb back? So no stalling eh? Still get that nice Pssshhhh sound? Yeaah wicked

Scotty - I dont really know the size of the zorst - but the piping looks a little bigger than say a Rex or 200SX. Dude, everyone says that upgrading the zorst is the first thing to do to improve performance. The kaki i got is relatively quiet so u dont necessarily need a farking loud piece - your trust pod is probably louder than my zorst so what r u talking about?!?!

king: yer im near there too heheh. if u see a somewhat stock silver r33 stalling in an intersection, with my plates(under nikname), give us a wave :wave:

but yeah my car stalls a lot coz of my bov id say. i should get one like ron, meh i might sell mine to get one hehe

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