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hey guys just wonderin if any one can help me

i got a r33 (rb25det) just put a fmic and pod on today and also upped the boost to 10psi and it really has not made much difference at all i mean i dno if i had high expectations or what......also it get to about 5000 revs and it just sort of has a flat spot until limiter car just feels gutless really

any ideas??

cheers cam

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That is because you are running to much boost without a proper tune.

Back off the boost until you have a decent ECU, pretty common issue.

Here is the search form with pages of results

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/se...=%2Brich+retard

Have a read, but at the end of the day you need a tune.

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Nismoid, I ran a fmic and pod and wound the boost up to 10 on mine and never had any issues. It ran like this for a good 9 months before I put in my PFC and had it tuned.

Is it just some cars that have this issue or is it possible that the boost controller is creeping well above 10?

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it is just a blitz lookalike pod witch my bro had lying around of his s13 and the FMIC is a china spec and my brother installed it all and is a mechanic who knows imports as he worked at import performance place for a while but he said that the car is still just restricted by the exh. system (3 inch cat back) and the ecu but he couldn't really answer the flat spot he said a good service may help out but just thought if you guys had some inpt

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Nismoid, I ran a fmic and pod and wound the boost up to 10 on mine and never had any issues. It ran like this for a good 9 months before I put in my PFC and had it tuned.

Is it just some cars that have this issue or is it possible that the boost controller is creeping well above 10?

No two cars are the same - some ECU's get more upset than others.

In the past some users have run 13psi without any issues at all, yet some like the OP run 10-11psi and run into the "standard" issues that accompany a ECU that is not liking what it is seeing.

But as you say, it could also be climbing but im assuing the OP has a boost gauge given he knows its running 10psi :(

Either way though, bad to be doing all of that on a factory exhaust, something that certainly is not helping the situation.

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as said earlier, no two cars are the same.

But my rb25det went from 160rwkw with just pod and catback to 195rwkw with 3inch turbo back exhaust, fmic and 10psi boost on standard ecu (untuned) and standard turbo, everything else on the car performance wise is stock aswell. Really it was the cheapest and easiest with best bang for buck mods ive done to the car. 10psi for nearly 2 years now and the turbine shaft still has barely any freeplay in it. (but have i just jinxed myself now?)

the graph curves are pretty straight aswell...

i'm just putting it out there and i have no evidence to support it but it makes me wonder if it's a series 1 vs series 2 issue? Series 2's can handle it and series 1's can't???? I know plenty of blokes in series 2's and r34's that havent come across this issue. Has anybody else noticed a pattern emerging?

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No two cars are the same - some ECU's get more upset than others.

In the past some users have run 13psi without any issues at all, yet some like the OP run 10-11psi and run into the "standard" issues that accompany a ECU that is not liking what it is seeing.

But as you say, it could also be climbing but im assuing the OP has a boost gauge given he knows its running 10psi :thumbsup:

Either way though, bad to be doing all of that on a factory exhaust, something that certainly is not helping the situation.

its true. I ran 11psi on standard ecu. R & R (then the fun starts).... They all seem different.

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it depends how cold the air is at the time.

i live in New Zealand and the weather here atm barely reaches double digits. At full throttal im barely getting to 4500rpm before it goes up to 10psi and hits R&R. my car spikes alot as well. ive only got split downpipe into 3inch straight through, big poddie and turbotech boost t set to 7 psi.

You have got an ecu just like mine which is unlucky because you can only run 9psi, and alot of the time my car seems to run better and faster at 8psi not 9psi.

a full turbo back exhaust probly wont help that much at all because you will be spiking alot unless its nice and hot where you live. otherwise do the exhaust becuase it will need to be done eventually and change the ecu. Im going for a simple plug in ecu such as a mines because its the cheapest option and takes away all of the standard ecu crap restrictions and will let me boost as much as i want to with out any "stopages" haha.

hope that helps a bit

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hey guys cheers for the help i put the boost back down but still having a big flat spot.....also as it is a series one i have been told i need to get a z32 ecu and do a whole lot of re-wiring and cutting tracks to get nistune and then i can only go so far with mods so i have been told to go for a power fc d-jetro????

what ecu are any of you other guys running on your series 1?

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hey guys cheers for the help i put the boost back down but still having a big flat spot.....also as it is a series one i have been told i need to get a z32 ecu and do a whole lot of re-wiring and cutting tracks to get nistune and then i can only go so far with mods so i have been told to go for a power fc d-jetro????

what ecu are any of you other guys running on your series 1?

series 1 and series 2 33's both need the z32 or r32 ecu for a nistune. it's about 5 wires that need to be cut and swapped for the z32 ecu. not exactly hard

as for only going so far with mods, how much power do you want? there are people running nistunes with 500hp, so i don't think you will run out of scope too quickly. there are just a lot of die hard pfc fans who think it is the best ecu ever made and say that anything else is crap despite the fact they know nothing about them.

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