Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 02:26 pm, by: Tim Hutchings(One_jay_zed)
Hey guys, my (poor) car is still sitting in the garage minus the turbos, but on the plus side, I'm picking up my new set of twins (temp while I save for the single) this weekend (all going well), I have a boost tap sitting in the garage and was wanting to install it for the time being. Given the fact that this is my first twin turbo car, I'm at a loss as to how to install it. I've read something about bridging the actuator hoses or something? I'm not so sure, any help? Links/diagrams would be greatly appreciated Cheers guys.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 03:07 pm, by: Luke Burt(Burt)
Yeah, it's mainly covered in that thread.
Run a hose from both of your actuators, cut it as close to the middle as you can, and install a Tee. Do the same from your pressure outlets (usually found on the compressor housing) Now look at your boost tap, one of the fittings should be wide open, and the other one will (or should) only have a tiny pinhole in it. Run the boost source to the wide open fitting, and run your actuators to the fitting with the pinhole. The pinhole is there to increase the maximum boost you can reach just by bleeding off a little pressure by restricting the airflow to the actuators.
DO NOT install it the way mine was when i bought the car. When i bought mine the guy had installed it by running a hose from his pressure source to actuator on each turbo, then teeing them both up into the boost controller....
Problem with that is one fitting on the boost controller is meant for actuator only hence the pinhole...meaning with one turbo connected to a pinhole fitting, and one connected straight through.. one turbo works its ••••••• nuts off, while the other daudles along... Needless to say he blew his standard turbos after 3 months of owning the car, sold it to me with DD •••• ones, and they blew another month later...thats when i noticed how retarded he was..
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 08:11 pm, by: Luke Burt(Burt)
Yeah a bit, the guy who imported it used it for performance, but looked after it. The guy he sold it to was a complete halfwit and •••••• everything up on it...
Then i got it reasonably cheaply and have an a4 size list long of things ive done since owning it. Once the kit is painted and its tuned i might post up my story somewhere.
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