Can i run a Tial BOV at around 12-15 PSI?
Or is it jsut going to surge like crazy?? I heard they offer different springs?
Or is it jsut going to surge like crazy?? I heard they offer different springs?
BOV question
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I've heard that the spring rating is related to how well your vacuum is, not boost pressure. I'm using HK$ so I wouldn't know. Maybe someone thats running a tial can verify this.
I've got a TiAL!
If you're running 12-15psi, it should hav ethe high pitch "DOOF!"
I only hear flutter from what I believe 1 to 7psi or so.
It will just depend.
11psi Spring here.
If you're running 12-15psi, it should hav ethe high pitch "DOOF!"
I only hear flutter from what I believe 1 to 7psi or so.
It will just depend.
11psi Spring here.
Boost Lee said:
Is the flutter compressor surge? Bad for the turbo? Or is that the actual sound the BOV makes?
Hard telling.
If it is a very distinct flutter sound that you literally hear from about where your turbo would be...then that's probably compressor surge.
But at low psi, they will have a light flutter as they are.
The way the ports are designed and the overall way they are made, I believe that is just the way it is...
But as far as compressor surge goes, it's never a good thing...but sometimes it's hard to get away from it, nonetheless.
Every turbo & every BOV combination I've ever used, they've all had that light flutter at really low boost...:dunno:
Maybe Lamarossa will chime in.
If it is a very distinct flutter sound that you literally hear from about where your turbo would be...then that's probably compressor surge.
But at low psi, they will have a light flutter as they are.
The way the ports are designed and the overall way they are made, I believe that is just the way it is...
But as far as compressor surge goes, it's never a good thing...but sometimes it's hard to get away from it, nonetheless.
Every turbo & every BOV combination I've ever used, they've all had that light flutter at really low boost...:dunno:
Maybe Lamarossa will chime in.
I think the Tial comes with the wrong spring installed for our engines, because I have never heard my Tial copy bov flutter even once, yet it opens even at 0 psi. I have been in several cars with the real Tial and there was deffinately a fluttering problem with the bov. If you get a 1/4" vacuum line right off the manifold it works purfect. I think the stock line is too small.
Everyone using a Tial, be it replica or the real deal needs the 11 lb spring because that's the spring calibrated for engines that pull over 20 hg/in (sp?), and a good running supra pulls like 21 . The spring does not determine how much boost you run, it's for keeping the valve closed when it's suppost to be.
. The spring does not determine how much boost you run, it's for keeping the valve closed when it's suppost to be.
^FTW.
Mine is a TiAL copy.
Like I said, it's not so much a compressor surge sound as it is a quick, high pitched chatter...sounds nothing like compressor surge.
I don't even have it mounted/welded like it's suppose to be ATM, I just half way rigged it up to work to test it before welding it on...and it still worked great.
Will - Just get the TiAL, Drive around pretending to be Ron R, and call it a day. :rofl:
-Jeff
Mine is a TiAL copy.
Like I said, it's not so much a compressor surge sound as it is a quick, high pitched chatter...sounds nothing like compressor surge.
I don't even have it mounted/welded like it's suppose to be ATM, I just half way rigged it up to work to test it before welding it on...and it still worked great.
Will - Just get the TiAL, Drive around pretending to be Ron R, and call it a day. :rofl:
-Jeff
Thats EXACTLY what im gonna do! I even hold the steering wheel like him!:hsugh:
Im gonna be picking up a tial copy pretty soon, after all my other "stuff"
Im gonna be picking up a tial copy pretty soon, after all my other "stuff"
I am undecided on what BOV I'll be getting when I do the hardpipes... It's either a Tial, or HKS racing SSQV. Is the Tial a push type BOV or a pull?