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Turbotech Electronic Dual Stage Upgrade Kit WITH V2 Manual Boost Controller just ordered. Really looking forward to seeing how this performs compared to my old HDi electronic boost controller. :D

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Just had my V2 controller and Electronic Dual Stage Upgrade Kit (missile switch) installed today. For those of you running one, is the missile switch supposed to light up blue when flicked to high boost? It did seem to light up for a few seconds briefly then went dark. I'm not 100% sure as it's not mentioned in the instruction manual at all.

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Hey guys,

Just asked this question in another thread but figured this would be a more appropriate place for it, plus might help out people in future who want to know the same thing.

Does anyone know what the quality of TurboTech's boost gauges are like?

I recently ordered a boost controller from TurboTech (after reading how awesome they were) and it came with a mechanical boost gauge.

Haven't hooked it up yet tho, wanted to know if it's even worth installing first.

Now I assume that they are not their own TurboTech branded boost gauges, that they merely on-sell another brands product packaged in with their own.

I also assume that with all the raving reviews of TurboTech's controllers they wouldn't go jeopardising their great reputation by supplying sub-par accessories; but hey, I might be wrong...

Any thoughts/opinions?

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I would assume the gauge is accurate "enough" for what you're doing... I've used yumcha vs. jap gauges before and didn't see any real difference between the readings.

Being a mechanical gauge too, it's more simplier to build

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I would assume the gauge is accurate "enough" for what you're doing... I've used yumcha vs. jap gauges before and didn't see any real difference between the readings.

Being a mechanical gauge too, it's more simplier to build

Yeah fair point, reason I ask though is because I think (hope) my stock gauge is reading incorrectly. Either that or I'm overboosting.

I did the ol' solder trick to the boost sender unit and it fixed it cutting out randomly, but now that it works all the time the gauge is maxing out when boosting hard.If it does happen to be showing a proper boost pressure, this means its pumping around 14 psi!...

So I want to install the TurboTech to keep it under control but don't want a gauge telling me I'm running a safe 9psi but really I'm on 15 psi and go bang! :down:

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Dose Pipe Sutututu

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on a stock ECU, your motor won't go bang :)

The stock ECU detects knock and drops timing, hence the knock sensor. The only thing that would go bang is your nylon turbo made with fairy floss lol

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Need to give big props to Turbotech for customer service.

I have had a Turbotech MBC for a good while now and recently I lost the bolt and spring from the controller. Sent Turbotech an email on Ebay to see if I could buy the bits seperately and they straight away just offered to send them to me for free not even charging for postage. Very impressed by them

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Need to give big props to Turbotech for customer service.

I have had a Turbotech MBC for a good while now and recently I lost the bolt and spring from the controller. Sent Turbotech an email on Ebay to see if I could buy the bits seperately and they straight away just offered to send them to me for free not even charging for postage. Very impressed by them

lol how did you manage to lose the bolt and spring? Was it installed in your car when you realised? :/

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lol how did you manage to lose the bolt and spring? Was it installed in your car when you realised? :/

I had threaded it out real far to make sure it didn't make any more boost than actuator pressure on new turbo. Unfortunately didn't realise it was right on the edge of the thread. I noticed I had lost it the day before tuning the car so unfortunately was only able to tune on actuator pressure

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Well, lets just say that this is one awesome bit of kit! Got it in the mail today, and went for a drive, pulled up to adjust it up a bit more, set it to 18psi and it just spools straight up to max boost and friggen sits there. Drops off 1psi at redline but that's it.

I'm am very very impressed. Throttle response is off tap. Cheers guys

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