Originally Posted by Fletch84
(Post 11614609)
Dave did you manage to install it? I'm doing mine this weekend.
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Originally Posted by STI8Dave
(Post 11615139)
After all the advice, i haven't found the time to do it yet! I'm hoping for this weekend.
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Originally Posted by Fletch84
(Post 11615183)
Well I'll be attempting it this weekend also lol I'll let you know how I get on. :freak3:
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I used something like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25-SMALL-2...item1e988d6901 to wire it and plugged them in to the clock wiring and saves cutting in to the wires
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Originally Posted by has-scooby
(Post 11616190)
I used something like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25-SMALL-2...item1e988d6901 to wire it and plugged them in to the clock wiring and saves cutting in to the wires
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Update: so decided to install my boost gauge today after work, took some figuring out how to get the vacuum pipe in the cab, found the rubber bung to the left under the tmic and opened it up, sure enough it leads right to the drivers footwell :thumb: so put a hole through the rubber bung and fed it inside. Now here's where I started to pull my hair out haha how to get the pipe to the drivers A pillar??? I started to take the dash apart :cuckoo: and thought this can't be right! So I managed to feed it somewhere up near the pillar, then if you pull on the pillar from the top it pops right off and you can poke the pipe up and onto the dash. By this time I had lost all daylight so I called it a day, I'll get it finished tomorrow tho for sure as all I need to do is wire it to the clock and connect the vacuum pipe to the inlet manifold using the T-piece then mount the pod to the pillar.
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You have to use the force to make any wires or hoses go across the dash, through no mans land
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Originally Posted by boosted
(Post 11617653)
You have to use the force to make any wires or hoses go across the dash, through no mans land
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I hope it's running some massive boost at the end of all this
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Originally Posted by boosted
(Post 11617703)
I hope it's running some massive boost at the end of all this
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Got it all hooked up and it's working, think it might have a boost leak as its only boosting 0.5 bar!?????? Car is mapped and running 280bhp so surely it should be boosting more than that.
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Should be more like 1bar or so I would have thought!
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more like 1.3 bar I would've thought. Could you have knocked one of the boost solenoid lines off maybe or whereabouts is the tap for the gauge, just off the dump valve vac line or off the manifold?
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280 bhp on td04, should be up there like, 1.3 bar+
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Where you pulling vac from?
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It's running from the inlet manifold
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Regardless of what pressure it should be going by what power you have, 0.5bar isn't right. I think that's WG spring pressure.
Have you got another gauge just to confirm yours is working properly? |
Originally Posted by bludgod
(Post 11617865)
more like 1.3 bar I would've thought. Could you have knocked one of the boost solenoid lines off maybe or whereabouts is the tap for the gauge, just off the dump valve vac line or off the manifold?
Originally Posted by boosted
(Post 11617874)
Where you pulling vac from?
Originally Posted by piehole1983
(Post 11617900)
Regardless of what pressure it should be going by what power you have, 0.5bar isn't right. I think that's WG spring pressure.
Have you got another gauge just to confirm yours is working properly? |
Have a look at the small vacuum hoses around the engine and just make sure they're secure and not split, damaged or kinked anywhere.
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Where have you "t'd" the boost gauge into?
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Originally Posted by piehole1983
(Post 11617917)
Have a look at the small vacuum hoses around the engine and just make sure they're secure and not split, damaged or kinked anywhere.
Originally Posted by boosted
(Post 11617982)
Where have you "t'd" the boost gauge into?
I've connected the wires to the clock, Ignition and earth. |
I meant pnuematicly not electrically.
If your car is running 7psi of boost it will feel very slow indeed. Standard boost is 14psi |
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