before i fixed my boost leak last night, i was reading up on a lot of sites about how to adjust the internal wastegate on the greddy 18g. i have a greddy kit tuned with the blue box. right now i'm only running 5.5 psi. if i adjusted the wastegate to 6.5-7 psi. with out tuning, do you think that i will have any problems? it's not that big of a jump and i heard that the blue box is tuned rich so it wouldn't matter. i know that max with stock internals (99 lude) max should be 6-8, no more. thanks

 

what size injectors came with your kit??

 

it came with 370 injectors

 

as long as u don't max out your injectors u can raise the boost, up even with the blue box, i would seriously think about ditching that thing and goign to something else though like an 0bd1 ecu with crome, hondata etc..

 

i will sometime. i'm waiting to pay off my fiance's engagement ring. then saving to sleeve the block, pistons/rods, and aem ems.

 

if u going to do that then get ride of the greddy kit, cause that turbo will not be enough, to even tap the potential of that setup

 

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Yes, its going to throw the "tune" off. How is it that you have it tuned right now anyways? The blue box is only capable of reading 8psi from my research, so be carefull. If you don't have the money to retune, which it doesn't sound like you do, then I would leave it the heck alone.

 

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I did this to a buddy of mines car and I wanted to see how "rich" the AFR's were before doing anything. I was VERY surprised to find that partial throttle was a near perfect 14.7 the whole time and in boost ranged form 11.9-12.1 amazingly the blue box does what it's supposed to do, so my suggestion is to get a better EMS like suggested and go to 10lbs if you want. This is exactly hw people break engines...they have a good tune and want to up a couple lbs. Just do it right or pay for it later

 

blue box ran rich as **** on my civic with stock injectors

 

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Aftermarket fuel pump?

 

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I did this to a buddy of mines car and I wanted to see how "rich" the AFR's were before doing anything. I was VERY surprised to find that partial throttle was a near perfect 14.7 the whole time and in boost ranged form 11.9-12.1 amazingly the blue box does what it's supposed to do, so my suggestion is to get a better EMS like suggested and go to 10lbs if you want. This is exactly hw people break engines...they have a good tune and want to up a couple lbs. Just do it right or pay for it later </TD></TR></TABLE>

You shouldn't be surprised about the partial throttle maps. The ECU can make adjustments to these fuel tables over time. Hence the desire for an O2 sensor.

 

Take it from me if you are going to build your block ditch the Greddy setup. I have switched over to a full custom set up and the difference is like night and day! There will always be issues with the greddy kit! Boost spiking is a major pain in the *** with the greddy kit when you go to a higher boost level and a upgrade to a 3 inch exhaust and DP!

 

yeah i'm going to build the engine and then get it tuned. save my money and then upgrade everything. i kind of regret getting the greddy kit. i was new to everything and just wanted my car to be reliable with power (basically a starter kit). ive research an *** load more now. ive had the kit on my car since june and already want to upgrade. kind of wish i had a civic since its so much easier, but i don't really like to be in the "In crowd". it will take time, but someday i want to have this boat of a car in the 10s. SC61 sounds good tunedbylorange.com's shop has me motivated with there shop car. different car, but same engine.

oh and i don't really have the money right now. that damn engagement ring is killing me. hopefully i'll have it paid off by june of next year. i could have a 500 whp car for what i paid for that thing...lol

 

i ran a greddy kit on my ls motor before.

greddy turbo @ 10psi , rc 310cc injectors , 10:1 vortec fmu , no problems what so ever. car pulled very well

 

im running a greddy kit now with just walbro, hondata, 440s and test pipe and made about 240 whp and 211 wtq at 9psi, after some ghetto rigging since my boost controller wasn't controlling ANYTHING.

btw stock internal wastegate

 

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btw stock internal wastegate</TD></TR></TABLE>

Looks like your boost controller works now

 

haha yea man - THANKS TO YOU!

 

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Yes, its going to throw the "tune" off. How is it that you have it tuned right now anyways? The blue box is only capable of reading 8psi from my research, so be carefull. If you don't have the money to retune, which it doesn't sound like you do, then I would leave it the heck alone.</TD></TR></TABLE>

The bluebox adds fuel and determines how much it'll add by how much boost you are pushing at that time.

 

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The bluebox adds fuel and determines how much it'll add by how much boost you are pushing at that time.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm well aware of what it does, believe me.