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HOOKING UP A BOOST GUAGE ON N/A manifold

Started by thorpa vbmenu_register("postmenu_1455074", true); · 24 June 2007 · 13 replies

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hey people i have turbod my na vl and hooked up my boost guage to the vacume line on the front of the manifold and it only reads vacume which one do i hook it up to read the boost like atm when i floor it it goese from vacume to 0 cheers thorpa
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maybe ur not hitting boost???
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Quote: Originally Posted by thorpa hey people i have turbod my na vl and hooked up my boost guage to the vacume line on the front of the manifold and it only reads vacume which one do i hook it up to read the boost like atm when i floor it it goese from vacume to 0 cheers thorpa put a t piece into the vacum line coming off your fuel reg thats where I put mine and it seems to work fine there.
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are u pushing it enuf to hit boost... coz if it reads the vacume and it goes to 0 it should go further, if ur pushing it enuf lol
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you're not just free revving it are you? you need some load to create boost.
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its prob a homo specko gauge Some original photos have not been recovered yet.
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i have 3 speco guages, all work perfectly fine..
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you can't just rev it in neutral, you need to load it up, load creates boost.
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Auto's will creat a little of boost in park or neutral but manuals will only make around 1 - 2 psi if stompeed on hard enough
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its auto and yes i am going hard enuf ill try and hook it up 2 fuel reg 2moz hgope this works and also yes it is hitting boost i feel it kick in
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Quote: Originally Posted by xbt106 Auto's will creat a little of boost in park or neutral but manuals will only make around 1 - 2 psi if stompeed on hard enough lol there is no difference between auto and manual in neutral...
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neutral is neutral theres no differents in anybox auto or manual
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Id say you have the wrong size line feeding it.
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nah its all good i got it to work 2day just had wrong vacume line thanks boys
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