I have decided to run one of these units which will probably make it much easier to get the tuning right on my car given Simon is a long way away...........

I have read the instructions on the website a few times. The install looks to be pretty easy, the setting of the unit - while it makes sense to me, could prove to be a little tricky.

Is anyone using one of these and have any tricks I might find useful? I am using an external wastegate so some of my settings (eg sensitivity and gate pressure) will be a lot different, but nice to get an insight anyway..........................

Some of the tricky stuff you can program is time-set boost pressures. Say, hold 14psi for 3 seconds, then 19psi for 3 seconds and then a full whack of 24......... would work well on the strip to try and get some sort of traction!

I had one on my AU with an external wastegate. It was fairly easy to setup.

Just follow the instructions and you should be right. I didnt wire up any features though, such as the time boost thing or different boost for different gears etc.

I just had the eboost turned on for 14psi and off for 6psi.

Do a search as I asked this a few months ago and got some good replies. CV fit them and Jeff seems impressed. I'm going to get one for sure.

Hiddeous loves his

This might be a stupid question but would an electronic boost controller work without the edit? or would it cause the car to overboost or go into limp mode?

Hiddeous loves his

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I sure do...!! cant comment on setting one up for an ext gate tho.

The biggest thing with setting them up is getting the balance between the gate pressure and sensitivity correct. Once you get that right there great. Its amazing how much difference the gate pressure makes to your low down boost pressures.....

one of these years im going to set up separate boost maps for each gear which will be awesome in a manual ute as i might actually be able to use boost in 1st and 2nd again...

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I knew someone had one!!

From what I can see, you're right, that looks to be the trickiest bit. I have to set all boost values to 0 with an external gate and be careful with the increases. I like how you have to set it up..............

"Full throttle in a high gear"

I will be doing 200 before I know it! My wastegate spring is 14.5psi so that is the minimum she will be running........

Ah well...........

Where did you put the pipe through the firewall?? Did you get your voltage from the ciggie lighter down there??

This might be a stupid question but would an electronic boost controller work without the edit? or would it cause the car to overboost or go into limp mode?

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theoretically yes, but only if you do not exceed the factory boost pressure. Once you are over that, it is shut-down time. As for loads at part throttle, not sure if the car's ecu can pick that up or how it processes that info. For example, the factory control might see 3psi at 2200rpm. With one of these you can really tune for no waste-gate creep so you might have 6 or more psi at 2200rpm. It brings the boost up earlier and I don't know if there is really much value in using one on a factory tune.

With an edit, a whole other story.........

I ran my hose through the clutch grommet...(took a fair bit of vaso to get it through.. ) I took my power from the sat nav fues in the main fuse box as my ute doesn't have sat nav. I just labeled it 3amp fuse only...

They take a bit too get you head around. once its setup try running with it turned off and then run a map set at waste gate pressure. Even tho the boost is the same it cones on so much earlier and holds so smoothy its awesome...

Thanks mate! what a pity you aren't in Brisbane..........

I will do the install tomorrow morning. Shouldn't take too long..............I hope.

and here I was saying I wouldn't do another thing to this car!

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