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by **beerad** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:00 pm

hey guys just put in my boost guage on my caldina. its an autometer gauge and at idle its registering major vaccum and when reved up it doesnt even come up over 1psi of boost? what have i done wrong?

My top mount intercooler i have just notived has a lot of bent fins. will this affect its cooling? is it worth getting neddles noses and straighting them up?

by **CozmoNz** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:05 pm

beerad wrote:hey guys just put in my boost guage on my caldina. its an autometer gauge and at idle its registering major vaccum and when reved up it doesnt even come up over 1psi of boost? what have i done wrong?

At idle, id be pushing out roughly 20hg of vac... give or take a few, engines suck in air too.. turbos force the air in, turbos require load - k?

at idle you might not reach any boost at all, you need to be driving along for a larger amount of load to be put on the engine, so you can get boost...

id say you hooked it up just fine

. thats what engines do.

beerad wrote:My top mount intercooler i have just notived has a lot of bent fins. will this affect its cooling? is it worth getting neddles noses and straighting them up?

id strighten them... but im a picky bastard

.

if its a few, i wouldnt worry, if its half the cooler, id go about doing it.

oh, and feeler gauges work well

by **beerad** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:24 pm

okay my guage seems sweet then.

the intercooler is quite damaged though with bent fins i will go about straightening them with some needle noses or something. just wondering how they would of got so bent in the first place.not much could get to the caldina top mount..

by **CozmoNz** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:17 pm

Belive it or not, but high speeds cause small weak peices of metal to flex

.

just use some feeler gauges... or better yet, invest in a Fmic

.

by **event2** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:22 pm

fmic?

by **beerad** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:30 pm

front mount... i wish i could afford it but i only have 500 in the kitty. unless someone on the forum would like to help me fabricate the piping i have an intire workshop to use..! haha

Caldina GTT · by **Inane** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:27 pm

Roadworks / cars kicking up stones + small stones + high speed + bonnet scoop + do the math as to what can bend the fins...

although its fairly bad luck for it to occur...

by **Mr Revhead** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:57 pm

hey water from a hose can bend them.... so can touching them etc etc

by **beerad** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:36 pm

didnt think they were that fragile, i will go about fixing them this weeknd

Santa's TardMe Listings · by **Santa'sBoostinSleigh** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:48 pm

beerad wrote:didnt think they were that fragile, i will go about fixing them this weeknd

Santa's Tip to Fix a Top Mount:
1) take off top mount guard cover
2) apply hammer to top mount
3) figure out you should have got a FM before smashing top mount
4) borrow nana's barina to go to ripco and get a FM
5) mount FM
6) boost hard
:twisted:

by **beerad** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:03 pm

i will do as soon as a nice person on the forums volunteers to help me fabricate the piping

Santa's TardMe Listings · by **Santa'sBoostinSleigh** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:05 pm

awww and you say that in such a hinting way

(BTW i just got buckies for the sleigh!)

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