ok so last night i stopped off and filled the car up at the normal shell garage, on my drive down the a127 i noticed the car just wasnt pulling like it does, looked at the boost gauge and its only reading 0.5 bar of boost. normally it boosts just over a bar, it does boost more when i hit 5k revs! but could be causing this??? the boost seems all over the place, most of the time it will stay at half a bar, sometimes it will boost normal and then sometimes it will over boost! tried reseting the ecu but no differece.

also while playing with another scoob i noticed abit of smoke in the rear view mirror, could the turbo be on its way?? its a 93 wrx

 

It shouldn't boost over 1 bar (unless the ecu isn't standard or you have a boost controller).
Possibly the actuator needs looking at and i would get the turbo checked out.

 

wot colours your scoob chris25uk?

 

silver mate, think it was you i was playing with lol, did you notice the smoke if it was you???

 

you havnt put some of that "moody"petrol in thats going about at the moment? saw a bloke up at GT-Art the other day and he had exactly the same problem with his skyline.

 

i think it wos me you played with (so to speak)lol
did i have my missis in the front yeah..
smoked bad when you floored it.. black smoke though.. OVERFUEL i SHOUTED..!

 

no way of telling is there?? normal petrol station i use on the a127 by romford and v-power! thought the moody stuff was only at tesco's etc. but the problem did only arrive after i put the petrol in it. and its never smoked like it did last night!

 

try checking for lose intercooler pipings

 

ahhhhh well the black stuff is better than white or blue right? lol yea it was you fella. i thought at first it was white which got me thinking the turbo was gonna let go, so the ecu must be limiting boost cos of the overfuel??

 

id say so..
mine does it occasionally, i just reset the ecu, let it re learn for a few miles, then it flies again..

good luck
keep us posted

 

seems a bit of a coincidence , mate. as you have said, it was alright until you filled up. hope you get it sorted soon, whatever the problem is.

 

ill try resetting it again today and take it easy for abit, cheers guys

 

 

ok the problem seems to of gone! i didnt reset the ecu again i just drove the car easy but alot! got the tank down to empty and filled up at a different shell garage, drove the car off boost for about 20 miles and then decided to see what would happen with the boost, hits 1 bar everytime and no smoke so sounds like it was a tank of juice??

 

bad tank*

 

thats good **** mate, pleased to hear your all fixed up

prob catch ya again sometime eh...

 

haha anytime fella! still gonna get it looked at tho just to be on the safe side plus need some other bits doing to it anyway

 

sweet, wots ya got planned then..?

 

nothing to clever, oil change, temp sensor needs changing i think as sometimes when cold i get the CEL and fault code points to that, 2 new back tyres (ouch) and rust around the rear wheel arch is really pissing me off so gonna get that sorted to...maybe get a knocklink fitted. after spending all the money on rebuilding the engine last summer i dont want it to go again

 

happy days, mines in soon for rear arch s.. need to get whole drivers side sprayed as some laquer came off when the stickers where removed :-(
All good fun eh..

 

few guys have said to me that i may the most of the sides sprayed cos the silver isnt easy to match up. always something new to spend ya money on haha

 

silver can be a bit of a bugger yeah, might get away with just the rear quarter though..