I just gained 50hp!!!

[tjbartjr]

Hehehe, this is good, you'll like this. Anyway, I've had a boost controller on the car for like a year, but I've just been running with the stock gauges. The car felt quicker, and it looked like the boost was hitting pretty high, so I never really questioned it.

Well....

Couple weeks ago, I order myself a nice gauge pillar and an autometer boost guage. I had it pretty much installed 2 weeks ago, but I couldn't hook up the boost line because I couldn't tee it up very well. That, and I wired it up at like 2 am. Enter Home Depot yesterday, with its multitude of brass fittings. Heheh, I hook it up in the parking lot, turn the key, and hey! it works! Get on the highway, step on the loud petal and.... WHAT THE ****?! I've only been running @ 3 psi for a year!! First thing I do when I get home? Tighten the Dawes, and out onto the street I go. And watch as that gauge rockets to 10 psi! FInally!! What a world of difference. And if we assume that for every +1psi = ~7hp, than I just made 49 hp!!!

The moral is:

Get a damn boost gauge. Thank you, and goodnight.

[EVERY DETAIL]

Dang, I can't believe you even felt the turbo at 3psi ! Congrats on your newly found power!

And god bless Home Depot

[tjbartjr]

Originally posted by EVERY DETAIL
And god bless Home Depot

Amen, my brother!

[alfie]

haha nice job slick

[segmond]

wait a minute, what was your stock gauge reading at?
my gauge reads at 9psi now, and i hit 15.5@90, I really hope this stock is lying to me and when i hook up my boost gauge it will show 3psi.

[eastcoast89pgt]

[i] I really hope this stock is lying to me and when i hook up my boost gauge it will show 3psi. [/B]

I was hoping the same thing but my stock gauge was right. I am boosting 9-10

[89TurboGT]

same experience here but not that drastic when i had just the stock gauge, i had it pegged out so i guessed it was around 14 psi and i ran a 14.7@ 96... when i finally added the autometer a few weeks later, i was only at 10-11 psi

[Glance91LX]

18psi on my turbo right now but I dont' even have a probe anymore. Doesn't mean I can't be excitied about boost either

~G~

[VTEC_EATER]

Damn this 90+ degree weather. I am only boosting 9psi constantly now. 20 degrees cooler and I would be at 10.5. Grrr...

Anyways, my stock gauge was pretty accurate. It showed just past the 9 psi mark and when I hooked up my gauge It read 9 -10 psi. Mine is in bar so every tick is 1.5 psi instead of 1 like the American gauges.

Anyways, good news to the Probe community. The Lotek gauge pod can fit a 60mm gauge in it. You just have to bore the living **** out of the hole. Then make a small groove in the pillar part of the pod. Anyways my Apex boost gauge looks so pretty in its new home. Now I just have to hook up the electrical work for it and I will have even more indiglos to look at.

I should take some pictures for you guys with 60mm gauges.

[Bufalo]

Tom, I'm going to try not to make fun of you too much for that escapade this weekend.


Great fix though!!!!!!!