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5kCSQ Overboost problem



In message <199609010306.UAA21852@netcom2.netcom.com> orin@netcom.com (Orin Eman) writes:

> It still overboosts!  Currently I've disconnected and plugged the pipe
> from the solenoid valve to the wastegate.  No more overboost - I'm getting
> 5 to 6PSI boost.

By-the-by - did you plug both ends?  On earlier cars, the top chamber of the 
wastegate is open to atmosphere.  If you seal it, you create a small additional 
spring from the elasticity of the trapped air. 

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