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ECMlink IR boost solenoid not working

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That is the plan. I’m gonna get to my friends house who is a lot more PC savvy than myself and have him pull a couple of logs off of my laptop and post them using his PC. I only own this one tuning laptop these days. Everything else is a tablet or phone and they are apple at that so I’m very limited on what I can do. For now I’ve given up on the boost solenoid and installed my MBC so I can at least enjoy 30psi for the rest of the season.

Sounds like the right plan!
While you are at it, if you go there with a USB thumb drive, you could even make a backup by copying all of your data files to the thumb drive. In case that laptop dies completely someday. Probably everything you would want to save is in only a few folders on the laptop. Your friend would know where to find them. I don't have the elg files from my dyno tuning sessions because the tuner who was tuning it, his laptop died sometime later and he didn't have it backed up. All I have from it is the .drf files from the Dynojet. Pretty funny.
 
Wanted to update this thread since I’ve resolved the issue. Turned out to be a bad crimp job on one of the plugs in my harness. While it was a pita to find it was a easy fix and now my solenoid works perfectly.
 
Wanted to update this thread since I’ve resolved the issue. Turned out to be a bad crimp job on one of the plugs in my harness. While it was a pita to find it was a easy fix and now my solenoid works perfectly.

Glad you figured it out. I had the same exact issue but it didn’t take long for me to figure it out.

Made sure I had 12v to red wire off the stock harness so it was my sub harness or the solenoid. When checking 12v there, you have to ground to chassis since the ecu grounds the circuit.
Then checked continuity on the sub harness and one wire was open.
 
Glad you figured it out. I had the same exact issue but it didn’t take long for me to figure it out.

Made sure I had 12v to red wire off the stock harness so it was my sub harness or the solenoid. When checking 12v there, you have to ground to chassis since the ecu grounds the circuit.
Then checked continuity on the sub harness and one wire was open.

Yeah it wasn’t hard to figure out really just time consuming. I have a aftermarket harness that I initially ruled out due to it being brand new but I guess never rule anything out just because it’s new. It was a simple mistake probably due to being overwhelmed with orders at the time. The pita part was trying to find what section of the harness had the issue. Some of the connections were not easy to access while installed.
 
I have a HKS EVC6-IR and like it. It is a DC stepper motor that controls the valve instead of a solenoid. There are pros and cons with that set up. I know the solenoid valve control EBCs are more common and probably cheaper. Been a while since Nox Vidmate VLC I looked but HKS, Greddy, Gofastbits, Turbosmart and AEM Truboost were all popular and generally seen as reliable.
 
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