Darkness Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 I suspect I have a turbo problem of one kind or another, and am going to be selling my car to one of the members here. So far, the car moves under its own power just fine, as long as I don't ask it to accellerate very much. So, my question is, can I bypass the turbo and slap an air cleaner on the throttle body? Will that make the engine behave more like a N/A 3.1? Not interested in any kind of performance, it just has to get the car from one place to another. After that, it will get the attention it needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bossman429 Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 I suppose you could put a filter on the T/B. I'm not sure what would happen if you ran the car with the turbo not blowing into anything. I also wonder if you could apply vac/boost to the wastegate actuator, to open it up, and slow down the turbo spool? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocketman Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Wire the wastegate open on the turbo. It may spool but I doubt very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbtk2 Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 Take your vacuum line that connects from the front of the turbo to the boost controller and plug it into the wastegate instead of the boost controller. This will cut your boost down to ~2-4psi. This should help reduce whatever problem you think the boost may be causing. Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qmtgp Posted October 26, 2005 Report Share Posted October 26, 2005 you can run the stock air cleaner to the t/b it's real easy. that's what i had to do, i ran it like that for a lil bit it ran fine i just didnt take it over 2 1/2 3 grand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1990lumina Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Woot, go to see in the other thread you go it working again !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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