Electronic Boost Controller Help!

[Lunnr33]

Hi guys,i wired up my new electronic boost controller to my r33 but it is doing nothing at all car just boosts until turbo chokes.ive got a vacuum line coming from the line between the fuel pressure and intake manifold to the boost controller and to the soleinoid ive got the line from the actuator and line from bov return hose going to the solinoid it says to have the line come from the intercooler piping or turbo housing would that make a difference? Any help would be much appreciated

Daniel

[Hanaldo]

Hi guys,i wired up my new electronic boost controller to my r33 but it is doing nothing at all car just boosts until turbo chokes.ive got a vacuum line coming from the line between the fuel pressure and intake manifold to the boost controller and to the soleinoid ive got the line from the actuator and line from bov return hose going to the solinoid it says to have the line come from the intercooler piping or turbo housing would that make a difference? Any help would be much appreciated

Daniel

The actuator needs a pressurized line, the bov return is not what you want, you've essentially got two vacuum feeds. You want to get a feed from as close to the turbo outlet as possible. I've got mine coming from a brass nipple tapped into the hot cooler pipe just after the turbo.

[89CAL]

For a start you havent listed what boost controller your using which would have made it hard to help if you hadnt already listed the soloution to the problem. The return hose from the BOV will have no boost pressure in it while the throttle body is open (ie making boost) so therefore will not activate your actuator to control your boost

if the book says to get the feed from the intercooler piping or turbo housing, and your getting the boost feed from somewhere else, do you really need to come on here and ask what the problem is

Incase you are talking about the boost/vac line to the top of the blow-off valve then that should work but is not ideal, much better off getting your feed from the turbo side of the throttle body not the manifold side. If this is what you meant then you may have the lines on the solenoid back to front.

[Lunnr33]

Ok cheers im putting a nipple in the intercooler piping so hopefully that works do I block off the bov return line?

[89CAL]

Ok cheers im putting a nipple in the intercooler piping so hopefully that works do I block off the bov return line?

*sigh*

BOV has nothing to do with controlling boost, leave the BOV system how it is (assuming its all working fine)

If your talking about the small VAC line that runs from the steel BOV return pipe to the standard solenoid then yes block this off

[HtwCHACtkh]

If your talking about the small VAC line that runs from the steel BOV return pipe to the standard solenoid then yes block this off

Hijack..

What is that thing for anyway? I have an EBC that needs to bleed pressure build up between the actuator and the solenoid - can I plumb the bleed back into that?