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My Boost is all over the shop, whats causing this?


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My boost pressure is all over the shop, can anyone offer any reasons why. I am currently using a forge actuator on a TD04 internally gated.

It seems if i set the boost to about 0.8bar it remains solid througout the rev range, its when i go higher i start getting this seesawing effect through the rev range, It flys straight to 0.8bar but then slowly increases to what ever bar i set it too as the revs rise, problem with this is that i have to set the initial boost pressure lower as it increases.

Its not boost creep in case anyone thinks so as its a TD04 running fairly low boost so its not an issue.

Have a look at this graph to show what i mean, notice how the boost on the first run in red is steady at 0.8 bar, but when we increase it to 1.0bar in blue its not consitant at all.

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Look at in blue i am not getting peak boost until nearly 6000rpm it seems to go flat for 2000rpm then start rising again, its werid!!

I am about to spunk £200 on some EBC management, which i hope fixes it

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Seems i have been having problems with this since i changed to this Forge Actuator shown here

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Do you think it could be to do with the spring in it being not up to the mustard, i am having to put shit loads of pretension on the actuator before i hook on the arm to the wastegate in order to maintain a decent boost level.

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I've always found forge gear to be expensive and naff tbh. id run oem actuator and a decent ebc as they help to stabalise boost anyway bud. id also check for any minor boost leaks as at 1bar id of expected abit more than 170hp mate. :(

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