boost controller question

[mjboehm]

I have a question about hooking up my boost controller.Right now I am using a avc-r with a 16g and I know how to hook everything up. I am getting ready to install a to4b-vtrim and a fmic kit on my car and there is no where to hook up the boost controller line that controls the intake side of the turbo pressure. With m 16g I had a nipple coming off the elbow. I was wondering where can I put the nipple to hook up the line for the boost controller and where can I buy them at. Any info would be great thanks.

 

[brute]

You have a few spots that would work, so depending on how premium/hard or it-just-works/easy you want it, choose your option as you please.

Go to a home improvement store (Home Depot, Ace, Lowe's, etc.) and "pick your poison" with brass plumbing nipples. Get one that is a common thread because you're going to be tapping it into the compressed air tract. Also, make sure to get the right size diameter barb for the vacuum line you're using.

Now for your options:

1. Take off your compressor housing, and matching the thread of the brass fitting you bought, drill and tap a hole near the outlet. Thread in the fitting and use plumbing tape to try to prevent boost leaking (after the install, you may realize you need something better like JB Weld or similar). Make sure to clean all the shavings and such out.

2. Using the same procedure, drill and tap your intercooler piping.

Now you may be saying "Number 2 sounds so much easier!" and it very well may be. However, the goal of doing this is putting the barb as close to the outlet as possible. If you put it very far down stream, boost leaks and other factors come into effect. These are variables that you don't want your boost controller going through, so you eliminate them by placing the fitting either on the compressor housing or very close thereafter.

Good luck!

 

[mjboehm]

Thanks for the help.