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Old 03-28-2005, 05:50 PM
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The car is an 89 crx si with a TD05H, dsm 450s, external WG @7 psi, 1g DSM BOV, TurboEDIT.

The car is running extremely rich right now, but I've asked about that in another part of the forum, my question here is I am not building boost. I don't have any exhaust leaks, I don't have any vac. leaks, the WG works fine, what else could this be? Could the BOV be stuck open? How do I check the BOV? When the car is in neutral the boost gauge sits at about 17 in vac, when i rev it in neutral it jumps up to 0, in 1st gear when I rev it up to about 5,000 rpm it doesn't move past 15 in vac. any ideas, please throw them my way.
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Old 03-28-2005, 07:54 PM
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charge pipes not hooked up
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Old 03-28-2005, 07:55 PM
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you must have a leak somewhere.........check all your charge pipe connections
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Old 03-28-2005, 09:30 PM
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Charge pipes are hooked up and tightened.

The gauge responds (goes from -17 to 0) when I'm wide open throttle in neutral.
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Old 03-29-2005, 12:43 AM
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Do you feel a kick in power?
If everything is working right and hooked up, then it must be your gauge.
Otherwise something is leaking air, bigtime.
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Old 03-29-2005, 05:54 AM
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If you clocked the center section of your turbo you may not have moved the wastegate in all the way to seal. It may be open and you dont know it.
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Old 03-29-2005, 11:28 AM
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Nope, I'm not feeling a kick in power.

Thanks everyone, I'll keep checking everything, you guys keep throwing ideas at me.
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Old 03-29-2005, 01:57 PM
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Well, I found the problem, the turbonetics Deltagate II has 2 vac. ports on it, the one I have running to the intake manifold, the other one I had blocked off. I opened it up and I've got boost.
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How's it feel Have you driven it yet
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