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Boost Issues.....finally sorted...strange symtom though

M87NER

MATNER
Mar 11, 2007
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Stoke-on-Trent
Hi There,

Could do with some help here....

noticed other day (has done this before aswell) when driving up a hill in 4th (only noticed in 4th so far... could happen in 5th-never tried ) gear from about 1500 revs building up the boost but when it hits ~12psi it drops down to ~ 0-5psi and have let my foot of accelerater and back on to let it boost back up again, any ideas why this is happaning...

i know i need some new coilpacks when i can offord get all 4 but this wouldnt cause this misshap would it?

Cheers

Matner
 
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clinch

Guest
mine does the same it boost to about 22psi but the higher up the rev range you go the more the boost backs off some times its ok a friend has suggested n75 valve but would i be right in thinking this is a week/poor actuator ?
 
Feb 25, 2007
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cheshire
would it over boost if it was only hitting 12 psi ......?

i spose it might do because if the ecu wants to see a certain psi at that rev range it could put it into limp mode but i anit too sure. i had this when air/fuel mixture was wrong before my map?? you could try to get hold of a stoichiometric gauge cheep and just wire it into the lambda probe to see what air/fuel mixture is lean or rich when it does it? just an idea
 

dai cupra

Guest
n75 i had same prob on mine so changed it and now fine
 
Jan 8, 2007
2,958
1
Wiltshire
I'd start with a VAG COM scan for fault codes and then maybe post a few logs up if that doesn't give you any clues so we can see what your readings are like
 

M87NER

MATNER
Mar 11, 2007
1,338
0
Stoke-on-Trent
scanned the car but no faults came up, had the eml flash 6 times lastnight when i accelerated hard in 2nd gear as it was miss fireing, would the wrong type of spark plugs cause this as i have ngk bkr6e instead of the bkr7e ... or just go straight to coilpack...

cheers
 

M87NER

MATNER
Mar 11, 2007
1,338
0
Stoke-on-Trent
replaced all coilpacks and fitted bkr7e's and car desnt miss a beat..... but still get this cut of boost...

seems to do it when i accelerate and the boost has to build up from low rev range and when it hits peak boost it drops down abit to about 10 psi then hits peak boost again and holds it this time, is this still the n75 then... might try a manual boost controller if i can get hold of one,
 

__B3NNY__

OEM with a 'Twist'
May 5, 2005
3,449
1
Oxford
When speaking to Bill about mapping my hybrid he mentioned that hybrids like to spike so he would like me to bring an MBC along with me just incase, so maybe try getting an MBC and setting up.

I would have thought it would have done this when spiking on boost not at 12psi?
 

M87NER

MATNER
Mar 11, 2007
1,338
0
Stoke-on-Trent
will have try them logs then, tried a MBC today and couldnt hit above 20psi even with it fully wound out....even half wound out it was getting 22psi on my mates cupra... so bit confused about that...
 
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