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Old May 5, 2011 | 08:54 PM
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12-6-8 boost patern

Stock car, only a downpipe. Vacuum reads a little low at idle, but that's another situation.

Boost spools very fast on the primary and actually gets up to 12psi, transitions drops way down and never recovers. If I do a 2nd gear pull I get 12psi, 3rd gear from 2500RPM and it will spool up to 10.5-11psi and hold until transition, but drops to 6 and then 8 on the secondary.

Replaced the inlet hoses and checked everything to insure nothing is leaking, verified on a 2nd boost gauge.
I do have oil in the intake hoses, more than I'm used to seeing, but it's also hard to tell how old the oil could be.
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Old May 6, 2011 | 12:10 AM
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Any indication of when this started happening (ie did you just service something, or just buy the car, or was it random)?

I had a similar issue - 6 psi or so on the secondary. Turns out my pre-control and wastegate solenoids plugs were swapped over.
Pull off the little black vacuum chamber and have a good look around for any popped hoses or split check valves.
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Old May 6, 2011 | 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Enervation
Any indication of when this started happening (ie did you just service something, or just buy the car, or was it random)?

I had a similar issue - 6 psi or so on the secondary. Turns out my pre-control and wastegate solenoids plugs were swapped over.
Pull off the little black vacuum chamber and have a good look around for any popped hoses or split check valves.

I just bought the car, so it's hard to know how long it's been going on for. I'll look into the vacuum chamber and see what I can find.
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Old May 6, 2011 | 01:54 AM
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check the turbo control pressure and vacuum solenoids. also precontrol and wastegate solenoids and make sure they are plug correctly like Enervation mentioned.
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