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  blueboost said:
I have seen a wastegate flap, drop out of its sleve, and was open all the time, this sounds like the same thing to me, the reason you saw 15 psi, with no exhaust is even when the flap is open, these cars can over boost with no restriction, so I think you will find,

a bent actuator rod

or the flap is not covering the hole properly.

or could have came off the actuator completely.

David

Yeah im thinking this also but the cat was deffinatly causing it not to boost above 6 psi with the 10 psi tune in.

The rods still on the turbo and it doesnt look bent so the flap might not be covering the hole? or the actuator itself could be stuffed. ill check tomorow when I take the dump pipe off.

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just to rull out a few things we swapped over the coils, wastegate actuator solanoid, boost preasure sensor with some spares we had and replaced the spark plugs. Its still slow to come on boost so its a wastegate/actuator issue for sure. just waiting for the car to cool down and we'll take the dump pipe off and see what the wastegate flap is doing.

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being an 03, the actuator itself could be shagged, but keep us all informed mate...

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problem found.

The bush on the waste gate flap has broken and is hitting on the manifold and would let it the flap shut. Needs to be tig welded and should be all good. A blocked cat was also the problem.

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good to see someone post the fix to their problem ,you get a lot of people come on saying they have one problem or another ,then never come back and tell anyone how it was fixed

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  XR06T said:
good to hear its fixed mate. musta been a loud drive with nothing connected after the dump pipe!!!!

yeah it was very loud....sounded like a truck! could be heard from ages away haha. scared the sh*t out some ppl and we had one guy driving behind us blocking his ears. lol

Thanks for all the input it helped alot.

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