Stock BOVs messed up
05-04-03, 03:09 PM
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Stock BOVs messed up
Hmmm...
I was getting ready to do the stock BOV venting trick when I realised three things :
1) the BOV closest ot the air box appears to be fitted the wrong way round (the arrow is facing pointing away from the air box).
2) on the same BOV the nipple is not connected to anything
3) I didn't know how to put it right
WTF - I have been driving the car like this for 6 months and not had any boost problems but I think a previous owner as messed things up big style!
Looks like I'm going to have to buy some vacuum hose to attach the BOV correctly. Can someone please let me know where the BOV nipple connects to?
Thanks
Thud
I was getting ready to do the stock BOV venting trick when I realised three things :
1) the BOV closest ot the air box appears to be fitted the wrong way round (the arrow is facing pointing away from the air box).
2) on the same BOV the nipple is not connected to anything
3) I didn't know how to put it right
WTF - I have been driving the car like this for 6 months and not had any boost problems but I think a previous owner as messed things up big style!
Looks like I'm going to have to buy some vacuum hose to attach the BOV correctly. Can someone please let me know where the BOV nipple connects to?
Thanks
Thud
05-04-03, 03:38 PM
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Thanks. Why would the arrow point in the opposite direction to the air flow? This makes no sense. Pictures I have seen on other peoples BOV also suggest mine is the wrong way round - everyone else seems to have a nipple pointing backwards, mine points towards the headlight.
05-04-03, 03:50 PM
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ok , now I'm confused. My set up looks like :
Turbo--------- -> -------------- <- -----air box
.....................bov.................bov
(ignore the ....)
surely this is not right?
Turbo--------- -> -------------- <- -----air box
.....................bov.................bov
(ignore the ....)
surely this is not right?
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05-04-03, 04:47 PM
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they arent both bovs
one is the charge relief valve and the other if the blow off valve
you are correct they should both face the same direction the arrow towards the front of the car.
And I believe if there is no vacuum line from the back of the bov to the manifold then it can't sense pressure and therefore it won't release air and you will get surge.
one is the charge relief valve and the other if the blow off valve
you are correct they should both face the same direction the arrow towards the front of the car.
And I believe if there is no vacuum line from the back of the bov to the manifold then it can't sense pressure and therefore it won't release air and you will get surge.
05-08-03, 02:06 PM
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One other thing - on your cars are the dump valve and the charge relief valve on the same piece of hose?
They are on mine which seems a bit odd....
Thud
They are on mine which seems a bit odd....
Thud
05-08-03, 05:05 PM
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no they are not supposed to be on the same hose. The crv will be on the y pipe furthest back to the firewall and the bov is on a seperate tube that originates from the middle of the ypipe just a little more forward (towards the front bumper) than the crv nipple.
they are 2 huge nipples about an inch wide you can't miss them. One of them must be capped. Maybe your car is running non sequential. If it isn't capped you would get little or no boost.
they are 2 huge nipples about an inch wide you can't miss them. One of them must be capped. Maybe your car is running non sequential. If it isn't capped you would get little or no boost.