Electronic And Standard Boost Controllers.

[Sweep]

Hi guys I am a bit of a newb with turbo set ups and have just brought my first turbo powered car a S1 R33!

At the moment I am running a turbo smart boost controller with the stock gauge that does not seem to be very accurate and only reads up to 7psi.

I would really like to upgrade this and I am trying to work out weather to get a gauge and stay with my turbo smart mechanical controller or to go the electronic one, so I am looking at for and against's. Am I right in assuming that with the electronic controller I can adjust the amount of boost and it will tell me how much boost I am running?

Also as far as fitment is concerned I would like to have a go at fitting it myself and I was wondering if the electronic one would be fairly straight forward for me to hook up or would I have to pay someone to do it? I do have basic mechanical knowledge with motorbikes ect but not real good with electronics.

Thanks

Andy

[hardsteppa]

Congrats on getting a skyline, they are a good fun car and fairly easy to work on, alot of cheap parts around for them too. There's tons of threads already with good info on what you've asked, best to do some searching and narrow down your q's first.

[Ben C34]

Check stock gauge.

Is it really in psi or did you just guess its in psi?

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

At the moment I am running a turbo smart boost controller with the stock gauge that does not seem to be very accurate and only reads up to 7psi.

it actually is pretty accurate, however the scaling is in torr - which people have no understanding about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torr

[GTSBoy]

Whilst it is numerically the same as Torr, it is in fact explicitly written on the gauge as being in mm of mercury (hence the x100 mmHg marking)

[breaker1845]

Stock gauge is in mmHg x100 from -7 to +7, not psi for a start. Which if you do the conversion is about up to 14 psi (not quite) at +7.

There is heaps of information on electronic and mechanical boost controllers and you should read up on how each works, the benefits and how it would suit your cars setup and what you plan to do in the future. There are many combinations but not all will suit what you want so picking the ideal one could take some time before even purchasing the item.

Setting up a boost controller is fairly easy and there are heaps of topics on this also, but if you know f**k all about electronics or anything mechanical it could take you a long time or you will get something wrong. So take the time to learn and research and make sure its running right before boosting your car and possibly free boosting it, lol.

If you have only just got the car it might be a good idea to do a full service on it if you haven't already starting with fluids, belts and anything that could be a problem while researching boost controllers.

[Sweep]

Ok thanks for your replies, think I'll go with a electronic controller! The car came with a service history and had just had a good service ect. Will be putting a new set of plugs in it at the weekend.

[Blackkers]

don't waste money on platinum plugs