Found Hidden Boost Controller After A Year Of Driving Need Help!

[aardi]

ok so to tell the story ill start from the begining.

I bought my 98 40th aniverseary r33 gts-t about 10 months after my stock 96 r33 was a write off after the big perth hail storm.

I got it with about 70 000 on the clock and it just seamed to have much more power. So not being the bees knees on cars and all and just getting to learning about everything you can do with mods i just left it as being a better car. Anyway today i read a froum on how to ground the standard solenoid and run at 7-8 psi so thought great sounds easy so went to do it. Well i looked at the soleniod and it had no hoses going into it (wtf) so had a look around. Then i saw that to my supprise i had a blitz sbc dual soleniod cool i thought. Anway traced the cables into the interior and they went all the way to behind the ash tray, so i pulled it out and there was the boost controler there all the time ( felt like bit f a bumb ass) . So now i had to have a bit of a play and got some good boost out of it but as i'm still kinda knew to the whole mod thing can anyone give me any advise on what it should be set at with a stock turbo as don't want to over boost the engine but really stoked with the find.

[STRYKR 33]

12psi is safe

[s13_Skyline_inside]

10psi should be safe, hehe dunno why the previous post didnt load up when I viewed the page before, I wouldnt go more than 12psi though.

in saying that I had an rb20 180 before and ran that around on 1 bar with standard turbo, ca18 side mount (thin as fk) 3" exaust and a walbro pump for a year or so and didnt have an issue, could be that I got lucky though, next guy to own it wrote it off though so I cant say how long it lasted

Edited November 25, 2010 by s13_Skyline_inside

[Adriano]

If it goes better than your old r33, then i would just see what boost it is running before you do anything. At a guessyou will get better gains by having the ecu remapped than than turning the boost up more.

[aardi]

got it running at 10psi for now and it seams to handle that ok. Just feel like i got this bug now and want more and more and more. Pissing the mrs off always looking at what i can do. lol.

[Flargh!]

got it running at 10psi for now and it seams to handle that ok. Just feel like i got this bug now and want more and more and more. Pissing the mrs off always looking at what i can do. lol.

How do you know it only has the standard turbo? Could be a hi-flow. Could have an after market ECU. Does it have a standard exhaust, intercooler etc?

Time to do some poking around in the engine bay perhaps. Might find some more hidden treasure.

[aardi]

yeah thought that too. It's got 3 1/2 inch exhaust blitz nur spec, standard intercooler though ( Got to get an after market one next thing i'm doing anyone got ideas on brand? ), jap psr and psr-k stickers when open the fuel flap to fill up (not sure what this means, Bigger pump or bigger injectors) , hks super direct flow pod. Don't know about ecu how can you tell if it has after market one can any one tell me? got a conect cable on the way will that tell me when i plug it into my laptop?

Might just have to go to some where like hypertune and get them to have a look.

oh yeah the boost controller plugs into a little box called greedy turbo data link not sure what is but think it for my boost gauge. Any ideas would be awesome!

Edited November 26, 2010 by aardi

[ClutchBurndout-:(]

i havnt read the whole thread, but personaly i would run 8-10 psi, because if you have the standard ecu, it will be to R&R with anymore psi, and it will feel like shit and not smooth

[aardi]

i havnt read the whole thread, but personaly i would run 8-10 psi, because if you have the standard ecu, it will be to R&R with anymore psi, and it will feel like shit and not smooth

Yeah i don't want to over do it my mrs just rang me from the freeway and said it got a bit of a miss now? getting a bit worried!!!!!!!

Hey jjman can't pm you back need to post more so they let me. I'm in joondalup but can travel any help would be great cause don't wan't to fk it as my last one went to the gods in the storm!!!!!!!!!

[aardi]

should't have played with it but could't help it!

[aardi]

sure not too bad though got her to change program to one that was in there already and it stoped missing.

[mosquitocoils]

Was the 'miss' only happening when smashing full boost? I'd say it was just your ECU hitting R and R