Car only hitting 5 pounds?

[Boostready]

Alright, so my car will only hit 5 pounds? I've checked for all leaks and holes in the couplers and found nothing, I've even messed with the boost controller. I'm running out of ideas of what it could be. Any ideas?

 

[pyro719]

Try more preload on your wategate actuator.

 

[gieri002]

The oil isn't coming from your intercooler (since you said you did a boost leak test), it's probably from a spill or something unrelated to the issue at hand.

 

[n0de]

I wouldn't. If the OP wasn't under the hood for anything what is the likely hood something else went bad? You adjusted the SAFC and now the car runs bad. Logic directly points to that as the problem.
The starting problem also points to this. Given what was already said about boost leaks a leak isn't your problem. Even if you had a teeny leak it wouldn't cause the large problems you're having.

Chances are that if he cannot produce enough exhaust gas to spool the turbo over 5psi then he would be having a bunch of other issues; like having a hard time getting to 2000 rpm, violent bucking, the car would be almost undrivable.

UPDATE:

Now that i actually read this:

well this is how it all started, i had my safc hooked up and my buddy intialized the safc and from there everything went down hill, car started stuttering and shutting off and wouldnt even make it to 3500rpm, well my buddy tried to get it close to a retarded tune using a wideband to watch the air/fuel ratio just so it would stay running and it worked but now 5 psi is all it will even hit.

I take back what i have previously stated about the safc not being your problem. The title to this thread should be more along the lines of "tuning issues, stuttering, etc", because just saying you cant get to more than 5psi when you have other huge underlying issue doesn't make any sense. I was imagining a smooth running car that just cant get over 5psi.

Simply put: you just have to tune the car again, also make sure your base timing is set correctly.

 

[pyro719]

Also you may want to gap you plugs down some.

 

[Boostready]

Thanks for the compliment. And I'll look at the turbo more closely and see if the waistegate is ok. But to people not understanding me, the car will idle and run. It drives smooth, but when I get into boost hard it doesn't want to hit over 5 pounds.

 

[uummm]

I would take the SAFC off and report back.

 

[Doesnt start monthly]

Not sure if ou fixed your issue yet, I had same issue( only hitting 5psi) I had a leak from my EGR block off. Resealed it and now back up to 14psi.