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Boost spike upon initial acceleration

danbfree

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You just seem to know everything for someone who doesn’t even have an upgraded turbo. That’s all. You get the same spikes on your stock turbo. Guess you should tune that down too because warranty.

IIRC the 26.5psi is meant to be the limit of HELD boost, not momentary boost. That’s what i was getting at.
If it truly is meant to be the sustained boost number for warranty, then so be it... I just know that when I was spiking to 28psi that I was clearly told by my tuner that it was not good, even if momentarily. We all know a stock turbo with stock wastegate can't hold more than ~23.5 psi through the powerband anyway, and it also spools near instantly as well, I just don't see why you wouldn't want to stay within limits for peace of mind when there is no performance benefit otherwise.
 


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Dude what are you talking about. The initial spike is just the wgdc ramped up to get the boost in fast. 28psi for a moment is nothing. I ran 28-29psi sustained on my hybrid for 6k miles before I got rid of it. The 26.5 psi is just a random number they use to save their asses if someone blows their turbo. The chances of getting it replaced if it's anyrhing but premature failure is 0.

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These turbos spool near instantly anyway, so why exceed it's rated psi? But whatever, the OP was concerned it started happening out of the blue and when it happened to me, my tuner clearly said that wasn't good at all for reliability, I was just sharing my experience. If you feel that running such high boost is fun for you, cool, but some people actually care about long term reliability and pushing it the way you did I doubt it would last long. We all just share our experiences here, just because your didn't care how you ran yours doesn't mean everyone else feels the same way.

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If it truly is meant to be the sustained boost number for warranty, then so be it... I just know that when I was spiking to 28psi that I was clearly told by my tuner that it was not good, even if momentarily. We all know a stock turbo with stock wastegate can't hold more than ~23.5 psi through the powerband anyway, and it also spools near instantly as well, I just don't see why you wouldn't want to stay within limits for peace of mind when there is no performance benefit otherwise.
Again the turbo warrentys are a joke and Ford would never warrenty a turbo when your tuned anyhow. My 93 strat tune would hit 27-28psi on stock turbo and 28-29 on e30. Neither of us have stock turbos either anymore so [emoji2369]

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MagnetiseST

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Stock turbo with stock wastegate cant even hold 15psi through the rev range....

The only limits on the turbos are those that its designed for, it isn't suddenly going to come apart at 28psi or shatter spontaneously. 26.5psi of sustained boost is the "safe" limit. As said before the warranties are a joke because 90% of the time they'll just blame it on installer error or something else. Seals go bad on any turbo eventually, the only thing increased boost might do is speed up the time between replacements.
 




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