Search results

Without the upgraded internals. Sorry I’m brand new to gas engines. Another thing I was looking at while doing some pulls was wastegate duty cycle. I’m not sure if it matter much or anything but it was at zero through every pull I did. It jumped for a split second to like 5 when I let my foot...

Ok good deal. Turns out the spare ebcs I have is broken. One of the little nipples is broken off. So that’s a no go. I just checked all the little lines again thoroughly and they all look good no cracks or anything. I thought well maybe the actuator arm was stuck so I grabbed pliers to move it...

Ok awesome I will try that. I think I saw a post on how to build one of those. When I do it where do I monitor the pressure from? Or do I just set the compressor to say 20 psi and see if it bleeds or what?

Do you think it could be the ebcs? I have an extra one on the other turbo I have, the lines look fine visually inspecting them

Ok what exactly is load based tuning? I live in the mountains of colorado and it was about 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside and I was going up a mountain grade. But I did try it on flat ground and downhill and everything and nothing helped. When the turbo spools I can hear a lot of air moving like...

Hello thank you for the reply! The car came with one brand new turbo which is the one I don’t know what it is. Probably something ebay I’d imagine. Then it came with a stock turbo with a rebuild kit. I was in a pinch as my commute car had just broke down so I just put the new turbo in. I’m...

Hello all! I purchased a 2008 speed 3 a couple weeks ago as a mechanics special. Car has 48k miles on it and got it for super cheap! I’m relatively new to turbocharged gasoline engines as all I’ve had thus far is diesels. When I got the car it smoked like crazy after idling for a few minutes and...