RIP_HSV HOON Member 1,636 Member For: 14y 10m 19d Gender: Male Location: W.A Posted 21/12/11 02:11 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 02:11 PM better to be safe, either one of those or a quality boost gauge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XF Falcon <put funny sh*t here> Member 3,365 Member For: 18y 2m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth, NOR Posted 21/12/11 02:15 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 02:15 PM 21psi is pretty high mate! Rob loves to pump psi into those motors Not that I can really compare mine to yours, but my stock BF MKI motor is making 370rwkw on only 14psi tuned by XFT and its a very conservative tune, and I've thrashed the living daylight out of it at 2 Motorvations, 2 Powercruises, multiple drag sessions and track days. I hope for your sake your engine is as reliable at that boost level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 3m 7d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 21/12/11 02:16 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 02:16 PM Yep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djqc Member 291 Member For: 13y 3m 25d Posted 21/12/11 02:19 PM Author Share Posted 21/12/11 02:19 PM How is it plumbed in to the piping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XF Falcon <put funny sh*t here> Member 3,365 Member For: 18y 2m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth, NOR Posted 21/12/11 02:26 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 02:26 PM (edited) The best place would be to have it as close to your throttle body as possible, since that point is the closest to the intake manifold - exactly where Arron has put his.You would probably have to modify one of the metal pipes to have a fitting which the Overboost Valve can be clamped onto using a short silicone/rubber hose. Edited 21/12/11 02:28 PM by XF Falcon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XF Falcon <put funny sh*t here> Member 3,365 Member For: 18y 2m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth, NOR Posted 21/12/11 02:30 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 02:30 PM My only question, if fitting one of them yourself at home, is how you set it correctly (for example 1 psi above your tune boost level) without having a compressor with a pressure gauge setup underneath it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa g6et Member 657 Member For: 13y 8m Gender: Male Location: Perth NOR Posted 21/12/11 02:52 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 02:52 PM Rob can have a bung welded into your pipe to fit the overboost value, he did one for me. Bung welded in and painted up, put in close to my throttle body and then run up on the dyno and set just above my max psi(it's set at 17psi). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALF05T Member 453 Member For: 18y 19d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 21/12/11 09:41 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 09:41 PM I put mine in via a tee peice. Use the vacume line at the top of the BOV.Cost $10 plus some pipe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa g6et Member 657 Member For: 13y 8m Gender: Male Location: Perth NOR Posted 21/12/11 10:02 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 10:02 PM This thing is a real sleeper now, gunna scare the pants of many wannabes in their ricers or commodores(and Fords for that matter). Next time I pull up beside a G6E here in Perth,and contemplate a little stop light sprint, I'll have to be careful it's not you Luke(but it'd be fun to see it let loose close up though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH8TOADS Silver Donating Members 3,618 Member For: 19y 6m 26d Gender: Male Location: OZ Posted 21/12/11 10:11 PM Share Posted 21/12/11 10:11 PM They are very easy to set-up yourself on the street if you know how to datalog. I've come across fitted ones that are set to high though....infact the one in question was taken to another tuner who advised the guy that it was being used to control boost as opposed to the wastegate duty cycle table.....which I proved to be bu11sh1t. XF is that 370kw on a stock sized turbo and pump fuel? If so its hardly conservative to pull those numbers on 14psi.Good to hear the car is sorted, would be pretty perky with 21psi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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