believe me it is so much quicker now yeah it's running proper boost and it
makes such a difference
okay so I really felt the need to make this video guys just because of the pain
and frustration that this specific issue has caused me for the last three maybe
four months now I'm gonna go back a few months when I first like to noticed this
issue and the issue I'm talking about here by the way is if you are losing
power or you feel like you're losing boost and genuinely your car is
effectively having intermittent power problems which is kind of what
happened to my little thing over there so those of you who are new to the
channel that is a 250 horsepower Abarth 500 or about 595 whatever you want to
call it I've had an upgrade turbo put on it and it's been running 250 horsepower
for most of all of last summer up until about maybe end of November last year
where I started to notice every now and again the car would just it wouldn't
feel like it was pulling as it should the thing it all properly came to light
when I was having a little a little run either side with a IHI 500 Abarth which
is the smaller turbo version of that well that's completely from turbo but
it's a smaller version there and he was running about a hundred eighty
horsepower and effectively in third gear and fourth gear we were almost level I
wasn't really gaining that much advantage on him and I really started to
think of myself hang on a sec something's something's not quite right
initially I thought loads of things which could be I mean with the
turbocharged cars as loads of things that could potentially go wrong with
them particularly modified turbocharged cars so as you would always do the first
thing I was going to do was check check the boost pipes because I thought
potentially I'm leaking boost and and what you would hear was when I was on
full throttle you would hear the turbo spooling but it almost felt like we have
a kettle and it was almost like air or something something wasn't right the
turbo was spinning but the power just wasn't being laid down so I took it to
the guys at a father who by the way been absolutely fantastic it's just come back
from its major service and what the car now runs unbelievably well guys as in
like seriously it's fast but back to the point so I went through the pretty much
to hold of the winter period with the car not really running as it should be
and the winter time it just felt it felt slow
felt like a bit of a slug if I'm honest with you and the loss of power and loss
of boost was really starting to frustrate me so then last week I took it
back to 8th route 4 because he needed this major service and once we were
there we did a full Diagnostics on the car to try and figure out exactly what
was wrong with it so the first thing I did I bought a new replacement reset
valve all potentially could be the research valve that was letting our air
because we checked all the pipes are falling apart I see fine
check the reset valve no it's fine nothing wrong with the reset valve so
then I'm starting to think great it's going to be something more expensive
it's going to be something like the actuator so we ran an actuator test so
we unplug the vacuum line plug this fancy device where you pump in the boost
nice tight leash or not technical so don't kill me for that but him pumping
up all the boost and actually the foot one thing I did realize is the actuate
was absolutely fine in fact the actuator can hold a significant amount of boost I
didn't even realize which is absolutely ridiculous
so awesome which means there's more legs on that turbo should I ever decide to do
something to it if I decide to do something to it or if I ever sell the
car if somebody else decide to do something to it you can probably turn
the term up a little bit more but anyway so the act show was absolutely fine no
issues of the actually whatsoever so then I'm thinking what else can it be
so Paul from over Alpha took it out he plugged her laptop in turn paul went for
a drive and started to look all the readings and proper Frankenstein kind of
stuff stuff but I have really no clue about whatsoever but I'm hoping that
this video will help people I will get to the point I promise affecting what he
saw was the air air reading air mixture & fuel mixture reading and the voltage
on one of the sensors just wasn't wasn't right he was getting stuck and it didn't
feel didn't feel like it should be doing what it should be doing the other thing
I know it's actually and I'll overlay a part of it now is the amount of times
that Tony from tuned for performance has done an ECU remapped on that to make
sure that it could be perfected and he's absolutely known it 17 times that car
has been plugged up for an ECU tune which is amazing you know I gave the car
into tonita to map to to get it to 250 horsepower and the fact that he's done
17 turns on it he's absolutely bonkers so Tony the man
again attention to detail spawn but what that did flag up was the because those
sensor readings were not right effectively was a lambda sensor and we
replaced them the lambda sensor and lo and behold the car is running like an
absolute flippin train again it is flying and I'm not even exaggerating I
say this guys it is flying and I think just to put it into perspective is the
difference this makes and you probably want me to feel it on camera but believe
me it is so much quicker now it's running proper boost and it makes such
yeah that's what it's about anyway stop it down a notch and head
back home and change clothes I guess and I just can't believe that it was
something so simple obviously naturally on things of self great because it means
that I'm not going to have to pay a silly amount of money to to fix the car
but the reason that I wanted to make this video which is plain and simply
because if any of you guys in the above community or or turbo community I guess
cars with turbos or anything like that if you're noticing that your car isn't
performing as it should be or you're feeling a loss of power you're feeling a
loss of boost or ever it may be check the lander sensor and the one time
ironically when it was working right the car was a couple of weekends back before
for the bister heritage me where it was really hot that day so it's clear that
temperature had a big thing with regards to how that dodgy sensor worked and
obviously because of the cold months we had over winter that effective meant
that I believed whether the sensor wasn't getting hot enough or whatever
but here's an overlay of what that sensor currently looked like once we
pulled it out apparently also it could have been something with a petrol
effecting I have no I'm not really sure but basically in summary the 250 bhp
debar now runs like an absolute dream it's had its major service it's back in
the game and it's absolutely rapid I know there's not been much movement and
they spin one camera and it's pretty much been one take but I felt that this
was an update that would hopefully be helpful to anybody having the same
problem so if you are having the same problem I hope you I hope this helps
give the video a like thumbs up smash the like button let's try and get some
good likes on this and some comments comment below what you think copy came
to hear your thoughts but yeah that's about it really
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