by gt4dude » Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:01 am
theres 2 main kinds of bov
push and pull
example hks ssqv is a pull type, boost keeps it closed, vacuum pulls it open, theres no way for boost to escape like example you cant push a door that says pull lol. so the hks doesn't need to be adjustable, the diaphragm is just preset to an optimum boost level, any less than said level and its doing fk all harm to your turbo to even bother blowing off.
now to the traditional push type, this is adjustable by a bolt and locknut preload on the spring which operates a push type, the air pushes against the piston to escape, boost from the feed equalises pressure to keep it closed, the differential between boost and vacuum allows the boost to push the piston up revealing the exit port, when you loosen the preload bolt, the less boost it will take to push open that port, and when you tighten the more boost it will take.
you adjust it to find a medium where 1. high boost levels dont push it open and leak boost and 2 its not done up so tight that boost can barely move it at all and it cant let out enough air causing compressor surge...
i was just about to delete all that and say go look up the difference between push and pull type bovs, but i wrote it anyways *sigh* prob doesn't even make any sense either lol its 5am
what i was getting at with this is the ones you saw in their videos were probably set loosely
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gt4dude on Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:55 pm, edited 1 time in total.
セリカGT-FOUR ST205 中期型 (Chuuki)
GT2860RS ・ JE 86.5φ PISTON ・ FX400 CLUTCH ・ APEX P-FC
200AWKW / 370NM