Found the source of my boost leak...

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Yeah, thats the reducing coupler that attaches the turbo to the hotpipe. I replaced that today with a better one and all of a sudden the car drives nice again. Oh, and those aren't my hands


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whats all that red stuff around the tear?

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Dangit, and I was gonna give you crap about your nice, clean, long, nail! Glad you got the boost leak fixed! Have you taken that thing to the dyno?

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sweet, enjoy your full boost!

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Dirty Dee wrote:whats all that red stuff around the tear?
That would be some high temp silicone RTV in a botched attempt to fix a small tear that was there previously.

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float_6969 wrote:Glad you got the boost leak fixed! Have you taken that thing to the dyno?
No, no dyno yet. I need to buy or find a good tune for my setup. I never got the pocket romulator so I cant do any custom tuning on it. My AFR's still go to 10.0:1 under full boost and my boost leaks are all fixed. I think it may be a combination of the FPR/ecu tune though. Reason I think the FPR might be involved is sometimes I am cruising along with a perfect 14.7:1 AFR and all of a sudden for no reason with absolutely no change in throttle, rpm or weather conditions my AFR drops to the mid 12's and sometimes even mid 11's. Same goes with idle. My idle is rock steady at 800 rpms but sometimes the AFR is a lot lower than 14.7.

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It won't idle well at 14.7. It should be rich at idle. Mine sits around 12-13.

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float_6969 wrote:It won't idle well at 14.7. It should be rich at idle. Mine sits around 12-13.
Huh??? mine idles like a CHAMP at 14.7. And every wideband equipped car I've been in idles at around 14.7 as well.


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