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[Mihnea Cotet]

I'll second Mike and I'd say additionally that running with a boost leak
will ruin your turbo in the long run, because in order to make full boost
it will overspin, which is fatal to a tiny K24.... umm, maybe a good idea
if you want to upgrade to an RS2 turbo??? ;-)))

Mihnea

At 13:12 3/09/2003 +0000, Mike Del Tergo wrote:
>Bill,
>do yourself a favor and pull the codes before going on a witch hunt.  My
>personal guess it one of the many vacuum l.ines going from the IM to the
>ECU.  Replace them all if they are questionable, but again, start with the
>codes, can't be great to have let this go for 2years..
>Mike
>
>From: bill bleiler <>
>Subject: violent bucking when reaching 1 bar boost
>
>
>hey guys, from the first day i had my 20v almost 2
>years ago from time to time under high boost it would
>violtenly buck once and when you let off and boosted
>it back up again it was fine.  this has happend more
>and more frequently, never knowing what it was i just
>figured it was a weird thing and would be somthing i
>would have to deal with.  Well last week i went ahead
>and put a 3" exaust on with a 2.5 inch down pipe, then
>this problem started to happen more frequently till
>today whent it must have broke although i still dont
>know what the problem is....now whenever i get to
>about 10 psi of boost it will buck violently if in
>first, but if in higher gears and thus more momentum
>it will just pulse rapidly with the boost dropping
>about 2 lbs with each pulse...right now i am thinking
>something with the wastegate...any other ideas....
>thanks
>bill
>
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