What Has Happened To My Turbo?

[CK34GT]

Hi SAU team,

Out of the blue last night my turbo would refuse to boost past 0.08bar (as stated on my Apexi AVCR b/c). Im used to boost levels of up to and around 0.90 - 1.00 bar of boost.

This occurred on every setting on the boost controller.

There was no smoke coming out the back which is leading me to believe (i hope) that its a faulty boost controller not turbo.

Has anyone experienced this issue? any ideas out there? is there a way to reset my controller?

Thanks

CK

Edited December 22, 2010 by CK34GT

[CK34GT]

Any ideas guys?

Cheers

[levinboy]

Double check all lines are connected, no leaks etc then go from there

[bubba]

As above and also drop the cat and see if it makes a difference.

[Raki_King]

You say that you run up to 1 bar of boost, Thats 14.5 psi which is sort of max boost to run on a standard im guessing, turbo...It may be that you have lost the exhaust wheel into your cat ect.....I may be wrong though.

[StealthX]

You say that you run up to 1 bar of boost, Thats 14.5 psi which is sort of max boost to run on a standard im guessing, turbo...It may be that you have lost the exhaust wheel into your cat ect.....I may be wrong though.

This.

Or check the intercooler piping, if it's running like poo at idle or missing at all, I'd say its an air leak. Otherwise, its probably the turbo, because if the boost controller was faulty, it would just run actuator pressure, so about 5-7psi or .4-.5 bar. 0.07/8 bar isn't even worthy of calling boost...