Boost Solenoid Maintenance

[ROLMDL]

  5INFUL said:

I have done this to my car and it made a huge difference, but then again when my battery went flat and I replaced it did the same thing, so it got my wondering does disconecting the battery and reseting the computer make the difference not the solenoid?

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that happend to me aswell not long after I did it the battery died and

was replaced but I havent done it agian since

so by donig this maintance does it effect the battery in anyway?

[instro]

  5INFUL said:

I have done this to my car and it made a huge difference, but then again when my battery went flat and I replaced it did the same thing, so it got my wondering does disconecting the battery and reseting the computer make the difference not the solenoid?

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Can the next person to do this test out 5inful's theory, I would but my bonnet latch is effed at the moment.

[ENVY-T]

  instro said:

  5INFUL said:

I have done this to my car and it made a huge difference, but then again when my battery went flat and I replaced it did the same thing, so it got my wondering does disconecting the battery and reseting the computer make the difference not the solenoid?

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Can the next person to do this test out 5inful's theory, I would but my bonnet latch is effed at the moment.

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I did this about 10,000kms ago, without taking the battery out, and it made a difference. Just pull the f*cking hose, and fish with an extension on the wd-40 can, and presto. I used some old speaker wire, that I pulled thew innards out of.

[loopism]

  instro said:

  5INFUL said:

I have done this to my car and it made a huge difference, but then again when my battery went flat and I replaced it did the same thing, so it got my wondering does disconecting the battery and reseting the computer make the difference not the solenoid?

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Can the next person to do this test out 5inful's theory, I would but my bonnet latch is effed at the moment.

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I didn't notice any improvement by resetting the learned values (disconnecting the battery)

[tab]

Which indicates that it's operating at peak output already; you flog it all the time.

[mbjunior99]

  tab said:

Which indicates that it's operating at peak output already; you flog it all the time.

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Which is exactly the way it should be

[loopism]

  tab said:

Which indicates that it's operating at peak output already; you flog it all the time.

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You've seen me drive it - I managed to keep up on the Snowys cruise, but I secretly reckon it's my missus who drives it harder than I do round town.

  mbjunior99 said:

Which is exactly the way it should be

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Precisely

[tab]

Don't get me wrong - I never said it was a bad thing

These things aren't made for putting around in.

[RAP1D]

  loopism said:

mbc ... Manual Boost Controller? aka bleed valve?

Care to elaborate why you use this rather than the solenoid?  You got me interested

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Im not going into any theroies of why they work better as I'm sure it will open up some lame ass dribble-a-thon, but.. I've heard the solenoid is slow to react, and cant be controlled well at its max duty cycle ( this is most likely dribble too )

But at the end of the day, Ive changed to and from and it always hits max boost faster and harder with the mbc... and quite a few that has ridden in the car say it comes on boost dam hard. I'm not saying that it boosts earlier in the rpm range, it just goes from 0 to 13psi faster... and I can adjust the boost without having to flash a new tune in.

An ebc with good quality solenoid would be better again

[mbjunior99]

Hey guys, I'm going to do this boost solenoid maintenance on my typhoon this weekend. Just wondering if I need to do anything different to the xr6 turbo seeing that the typhoon's come with the alarm?