Re: '87 5KTQ performance trouble

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Wesseling <kwessel@enm.maine.edu>



You wrote:
<snip>

> Pressure regulator.  There doesn't seem to be any problem with idle.
> Thanks for the input on what is considered 'normal'.  I might be
> expecting to much.  Do the automatic turbos load the turbo better?  I
> had one and it ran 1.4 bar most of the time.  Oh well.
>
> Colin
> 87 5KTQ
>

>Colin:

>FWIW, I can _always_ hit 1.4 bar in all five gears in my stock '87
>5KCSTQ.  But, I've heard that for some reason not all cars achieve
>this.

>--Kurt

Kurt;

    When I bought my '86 5kcstq, it would only show 1.2 bar boost at max
throttle. I took it back to the dealer and they put on a calibrated guage;
it was actually boosting to 1.4 bar. The in-car gauges may not always be
correct.

Fred Munro
'91 200q

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