Where is your aftermarket boost gauge installed?

Recently installed mine. Here are some pictures of it installed:

Rear car view:


Driver's Seat view:



Vacuum line through firewall:

 

Now, a few questions:

1. At idle, what is your boost gauge reading?

2. Now that I'm able to see what is happening with boost, I notice that the wastegate opens rather early. Boost drops slowly from around 15psi to 10 psi as the engine revs towards redline. (yeah yeah yeah, I know this is something standard from the factory so that people don't blow up their engines if accidently over-reved and such)

So other than a manual/electronic boost controller, what else out there will allow full boost at WOT and keep it there all the way to redline....and beyond (ok, not a good idea )?

 

dont touch a boost controller unless you have the best internals in the world, or dont mind being either WOT or less then 1/4 throttle all the time

 

you have pm.

 

you should put that in your hood aussie style, ask nathan.

 

I like boy's. 8)


Tim

 

1. Normally, you should see about -8 to -9 psi at idle

2. You don't want full boost at redline. The stock turbo's efficiency range isn't that high -- moving that amount of air at redline will just result in blowing VERY hot air, and won't increase performance.