[s-cars] Fwd: loss of boost? advice please!! :-)

[chris chambers]

So I shouldn't be concerned that there is anything wrong with the turbo
then? I can't do a boost check until later today and I can't stop
thinking something is wrong with my turbo.


Thanks again

Chris



--- Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org> wrote:
> 
> With my setup (RS2) I begin to feel a small amount of boost as low as
> 2200 
> rpm at WOT.  It comes on full force between 3400 and 3600 rpm.
> 
> At 11:39 AM 3/13/2005, you wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >--- chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.comwrote:
> >Gentlemen,
> >
> >It feels like my boost is coming on later than it should and not as
> >powerful as it should.
> >
> >When should the boost come on? My car has the RS2 EM, RS2 FI, RS2
> >maf,
> >new F5DPOR Spark Plugs, new spark plug connectors, innovative
> >turbo's
> >custom "RS2 turbo", Pastore's RS2 mix with the Vmap, and Silicone
> >boost
> >hoses from the GP.
> >
> >Feels like it boost is coming on close to 4k rpm. In addition I
> >swear
> >I
> >can hear something "spinning down" after I lift my foot off the
> >gas.
> >Unfortunately the wife couldn't hear it, hoping it's just the sign
> >of
> >a
> >boost leak.
> >
> >tomorrow I plan on digging into it starting by checking for boost
> >leaks, connections for the boost line to the ecu, anything else I
> >should check?
> >
> >If a turbo was failing what sign would it give? Just hoping it
> >isn't
> >the turbo....please reassure me it isn't! :-)
> >
> >
> >Thanks
> >Chris
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until
> he has 
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> >
> >
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