BOV on a Stagea????

[ICE12]

Ok I am a little confused as to if the Stagea Auto has a BOV or just a wastegate and if it does have a BOV it would only blow off when you take you foot of the accelerator. An help would be great.

ICE

[Jay95R33]

Yepp, it has the same BOV that's on the R33 GTS-t's. And yepp, it only really does something when you come off the accelerator peddal.

[Terminal]

I found out when i borrowed Jay's airbox that you can't hear the BOV when you release the pedal, but if you have a Pod filter instead of the stock airbox, the noise is reasonably audible.

BOV's on auto's never really have the same effect as on manuals though.

[BoyWhoCriedWolf]

I have a Blitz SS filter and it makes a bit of a racket on backoff, but really no point in an aftermarket BOV on an auto.

[CoolPC]

Get a pod filter. The car has a fairly loud induction noise and you can definitely hear the stock bov. That's really all that's needed, anything else is a waste of $$ in that department.

[Happymeal]

yeah, I'd agree. Mine came in from Japan, with a Blitz BOV installed, as well as the factory one. ??? The factory one was not hooked up to a vacuume feed so had nothing to hold it closed, so would have been leaking boost all the time. The Blitz was barely audible. Put a pod in there and hooked the factory one up to a vacuume feed as well as the blitz and the blitz become no more audible but the factory one made all the noise. No need for aftermarket, stay factory, go pod. plenty of noise, but only when you come off boost (lift off accelerator)

[Terminal]

Also, makes people look at you funny, seeing a wagon making a bov noise. i had some kids at maccas in bathurst one day say "do a burnout! you've got a turbo!" i just laughed... ignorant kids