hey guys, i have a problem. I just got done fixing the dizzy on my car like a month or two after it broke. i let my car warm up to get the gas moving through the little thing, hit the gas and no boost. pipes seem tight from the intercooler and all but im not getting no boost. I mrunning a greddy 15g kit on a 9 civic d16z6 with a custom IC and pipes, with a greddy type s bov. I can only think that maybe my wastegate is damaged or that my exhaust is to restrictive. im not getting any oil blowing into my intercooler tubes so i know my seals arent blown. help me out guys. PLEASE!!!

 

is the turbo spooling? Is it an internal or external wastegate?

 

it didnt sound like it, all i hear is a sound like air coming in through a short ram intake, no spool sound, nothing. i guess that sound is coming from the airfilter/ tube covering my compressor wheel. oh i tried tightening and lossening my bov, and nothing

 

you do know that in neutral you shouldn't be boosting right?

 

ok, what if the same thing when im in gear. I tried to drive and my car was slow as hell even worse than when i was N/A. I have no clue.

 

ummmm... this doesn't have anything to do with it... for your turbo to spool you have to be driving under load and there can't be any leaks between your exhaust manifold and your turbo, and your wastegate has to be closed and not leaking too bad... if it's spooling but you're building no boost, then there's a leak in your charge piping and/or your bov is staying open for some reason...

your car is slower than when you were n/a because you have added the turbo (huge restriction) and it doesn't seem to be spooling at all to make up for it.

 

i do have some really ghetto charge pipes, but they are pretty tight, i mean hose clamped to ----. and the BOV how would i know if its staying open. Oh im also getting a ---- load of white smoke off of my exhaust manifold. would this be from the oil i spilled or something else, like an exhaust leak.

 

Check these things in this order. It has to be one of them.

1. Wastegate is open
2. BOV is stuck open
3. Huge leak in the charge pipes
4. Huge leak in the exhaust before it hits the turbo
5. Turbo is froze and doesn't spin


__________________
Best Car Insurance | Auto Protection Today | FREE Trade-In Quote

 

sounds good, one more question how do i check to see if the wastegate is open, its an internal wastegate. on a greddy 15g