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Old 01-13-05, 10:16 PM
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Boost fluctuation? Help please!

I installed my walbro yesterday.. and today I messed with the boost settings in the PFC. I set it to .85 primary and .90 secondary.. and on the highway I was getting some really wierd boost fluctuations. In third gear at WOT I could literally watch the boost gauge needle bounce from 13-12-13-12.. just like that.. it was so wierd I dont even know what caused it. Any suggestions?
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lower your duty cycles, the PFC is over shooting your boost target and then attempting to settle
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Do you mean the % figures in the boost setting? Sorry I'm a pfc noob.
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yes...you should use lower values at first until you reach your target boost level... that is incrementally increase the % until you reach your desired boost level...this prevents boost spiking when the 2ndary kicks in...although the lower values cause boost to increase relatively slower
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Woah! Thanks. What are those values anyways? I turned them down and got .91 bar all the way to redline.. no fluctuation at all. Thanks a bunch!
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the values correspond to the duty cycles of the wastegate and turbo precontrol solenoids
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oh.. well yeah im an idiot. thanks again.
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