91 200q owners - low boost

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <9608192319.AA15750@wvit.wvnet.edu> Robert Myers writes:

> The pressure regulator provides an additional safeguard to prevent
> sufficiently high boost pressures as to cause detonation, etc.  A positive
> pressure of about 1.2+ bar above ambient (2.2+ bar as would be registered on
> the in-dash gauge if it could still perform this function accurately [it
> can't - the ECU mods see to that]) help generate a whole bunch of extra
> power.  :-)

We're pointing more and more fingers at the turbo.  Did you check its output 
for metal fragments?

Also, if I'd regularly run boost as high as that, I'd check the intercooler.

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club