R2D2 fitted, need some advice

Have you considered using the force? Oh by the way that girl you are attracted to id your sister. ;)

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Is there another vac hose you could try?

Yeah its on a vacuum direct from the inlet manifold. I'll have another look at it when i manage to get out of bed :)

-- Chet

You didn't put it into a big line to a brake servo did you?

Got my Samco silicon T piece. Bit of a Bitch though, the T spout is

What a pig, I've either got to stretch the rubber, or get a short length of 30mm, and a joiner. And the pigging stuff won't stretch.

Aye, my old outlet was 25mm silicone. It stretched with a bit of effort!

I'm considering cutting my spring, any DV i look up similar to the R2D2 is rated at 10-25psi so i think my 5psi is the problem.

Bizarrely i've noticed it doesn't dump at all when the cars cold :-s

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I've probably completely misunderstood what you are suggesting, but cutting the spring will actually make it stiffer - you'll get less movement per unit force applied, so if you are trying to make the valve open with less pressure drop than spec. then it might not work.

Oh, bugger, thats what i was suggesting. I had read it on the net somewhere regarding a different DV

It isn't just the boost that opens the valve, the vacuum does that (albeit assisted a little by boost), otherwise it'd be dumping all the time like a mouse who just ate a curry.

Is the car pulling much vacuum on your boost guage when you lift off the throttle? Check for vac leaks. Make sure the plumbing is right. Otherwise, perhaps there is a different spring you can buy for the R2D2.

However if you're only dumping a max of 5psi, you won't really get a very loud dump and you've kind of wasted your money buying a valve for its sound. Do you only run 5psi because the car won't take any more, or because something stops working properly when you do?

I'm aware of that sonny :)

Somethin like -12psi on vacuum. DV is running its own vacuum from the inlet manifold.

The old DV was loud enough on the same boost before. I run 5psi because of

"Chet" wrote

Sounds good enough, maybe the R2D2 doesn't like your paintjob... Try the spring out of your old DV? The R2D2 is probably designed for super high boosting jap nutmobiles.

When's meatball going to install his? We need a comparison!

LOL

Yeah thats what i'm starting to think, i'll pull it apart after work and see if the springs are swappable

That was the old project turbo, i still have those pistons but need a 2.0 engine to fit them in. This ones boggo 1.8 and so far i'm quids in on it from the money i got back from the old bits.

Its quite worrying when a typically lazy irishman gets his on before the normally hands on meatball!

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This weekend hopefully. With being work busy etc.

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But a lazy irishman who works in family garage and has petrol head brothers close buy compared to me who works in an office from dawn till dark, has no garage and needs to remove the intercooler to fit the DV.

Need daylight.

Fair point, well made. BTW slipping the clutch at standstill to test your DV is a bad idea.

/me goes pricing uprated clutches

Lol. Think about Helix clutches if you can afford.

is a bad idea.

LOL i just love chet's car testing techniques :)