reciculating blow off valve question
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reciculating blow off valve question
i have a question about the reciculating valve and i see latelly on different newer cars that if you change it to a blow off valve one (greddy, HKS or any aftermarket) you loose power. my question is that i know alot of people have blow off valves on their rx's, have anybody have kept it as reciculating to the intake? i have a blow off one and i wanna know if helps on the spool or even on power by having it reciculating or not. im just looking for quicker spool of my car.
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yeah, it doesnt really help any, when its open in the engine bay it just makes a vac leak. if anything the aftermarket is better because you dont lose the power from the vac leak.
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The purpose of the recirculating bypass valve is to keep metered air in the system on vehicles that use an airflow meter. If the air is not recirculated, then metered air is blown out of the system, and less air ends up going into the engine than expected by the computer, and therefore the mixture becomes rich. Since this only happens when the air is actually blown out the valve, the engine will only run rich when the BOV operates, and there will be no other effects when it is closed. The result is that the engine will run rich between shifts, slowing acceleration due to rich bogging.
Engines that do not have an airflow meter, such as those using a standalone EMS in speed-density or alpha-n mode, do not see any adverse effects when using a BOV vented to the atmosphere.
That should only happen if there is a flaw in the system, such as an improperly set BOV.
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The purpose of the recirculating bypass valve is to keep metered air in the system on vehicles that use an airflow meter. If the air is not recirculated, then metered air is blown out of the system, and less air ends up going into the engine than expected by the computer, and therefore the mixture becomes rich. Since this only happens when the air is actually blown out the valve, the engine will only run rich when the BOV operates, and there will be no other effects when it is closed. The result is that the engine will run rich between shifts, slowing acceleration due to rich bogging.
I'm not sure if this actually works but I've heard someone talk about that before, if it does then there wouldn't be any problem when the BOV would operate.
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You could put the maf sensor after the BOV, that way the engine won't run rich because the metered air is already passed the BOV
I'm not sure if this actually works but I've heard someone talk about that before, if it does then there wouldn't be any problem when the BOV would operate.
I'm not sure if this actually works but I've heard someone talk about that before, if it does then there wouldn't be any problem when the BOV would operate.
The stock AFM/ECU system has lousy response as it is, so an average person probably wouldn't notice the bogging much unless 1/4 mi track times were actually measured on a recirculating system vs. a venting system. Somebody who races a lot would notice the difference just by driving, but there aren't too many people like that on this forum. Once the stock AFM/ECU system is replaced with a well-tuned standalone EMS, even a novice could notice the difference.
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