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Dash Rendar
09-04-07, 20:09
I got blown away by a Mini today. It was well embarrasing. I put my footdown and went straight up to 0.7-0.8 bar, then #2 comes on and it drops to 0.3 bar!
This has been happening intermittently for a few days now. Sometimes it boosts to 1.2-1.3, but sometimes #2 just doesn't want to know.
I'm told it's my VSV sticking? If that's the case, has anyone got a VSV they can sell me? I guess all you guys that have gone single wont need yours?
I think i have one you can have. Assuming you mean the EBGV VSV.
Will have a look tomorrow.
Have you also checked all the vacuum hoses. No splits etc.....
I have one, but mine was sticking too lol!
Read this thread http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=35926
Sounds like problem no.2 :)
Dash Rendar
09-04-07, 20:47
Yes... problem #2!
So I think I need an EGCV!
If anyone has one of these (that's not sticking!) that they would be willing to sell me, then please let me know.
i have one of these
Edit, no i dont i have the other one, egbv
I think I have one here. It did stick VERY occasionally though.
Check the EGCV vsv connector is on properly, I've just had this and because the clip is broken the connector works loose.
Dash Rendar
10-04-07, 17:17
Well, the symptoms from that link suggest it's the EGCV. But having spoken so a knowledgeable geezer (!!), I'm told the EGBV could also be causing these symptoms... Which would be good for me, because that's much easier to get to.
I've had a look at the vacuum hoses around the EGBV. They're silicon hoses (the blue ones) and I can't see any splits at a glance.
Dash Rendar
11-04-07, 17:47
Now #2 wont come on at all. :cry:
Dash Rendar
11-04-07, 17:48
It's going to Pheonix on Monday. Hopefully they can sort it.
Does it get to 4k and feel dead, hard to rev? if so i would say its the EGCV for sure. Quick TTC test and check the EGCV opens up then fault find the VSV tucked behind the wastegate VSV close to the alternator.
Dash Rendar
12-04-07, 07:23
Yeah, it boosts to about 0.7, and then when the revs hit 3800 and it should switch to #2, the boost drops off to about 0.3 bar. It's happening all the time now. It revs just fine... Just doesn't go anywhere fast!
As for the rest of what you said... I wouldn't really know where to begin. So hopefully Pheonix will be able to sort it out on Monday.
exactly the same symtoms as mine, although we tested the egcv and the egbv with an airline then pressure tested the system to no avail, i always seem to have problems with the twins when stock and the new hybrids so decided to bring my single conversion forward;)
Yeah, it boosts to about 0.7, and then when the revs hit 3800 and it should switch to #2, the boost drops off to about 0.3 bar. It's happening all the time now. It revs just fine... Just doesn't go anywhere fast!
As for the rest of what you said... I wouldn't really know where to begin. So hopefully Pheonix will be able to sort it out on Monday.
Did you get this sorted? as mine is doing same thing.
Dash Rendar
19-04-07, 06:55
Oh yeah, forgot to update.
Well... It was all a bit strange really. In the couple of days before going to Pheonix, the car also developed a slight misfire, but only on idle.
So I got the car to Pheonix and Mark whipped the cover off the engine and promptly diagnosed that the engine breather system had been hosed incorrectly for starters. So he sorted that out, replaced a shot coil pack connector, and replaced the sparks.
Then he moved the vacuum hose going to #1, as this one was kinked.
And now it boosts just fine!! 1.2 bar is back! Which is really odd, because if the kinked hose to #1 was causing a problem, I would have thought #1 would have had trouble spooling.
Mark suggested that the combination of these other factors, while being no major issue on their own, could have combined to result in my car being unable to switch to #2.
These problems aren't black and white, are they?!
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