engine bay tanlged mess

[Project95awd]

Hey Guys! so I bought this 2g for a thousand bucks, its got 90k on the meter. Whoever had it just slapped on an aftermarket BOV and a boost controller

I really need some advice about putting it back to stock or at least just taking out the boost controller, I can deal with the BOV since it can be set at 100% recirculating. Whoever set these things up just completely tangled the hoses and I want to clean it up but If I take the boost controller out I wont know where all of the hoses are supposed to go...

Here is a Pic of the setup

 

[miguelmcv]

We can't see the boost controller.
Take a pic of the boost controller itself, showing the lines where they come from and where they go to, so we can look at it and tell you where they go.

If you want a fast answer, Just remove the controller and link both lines of the controller.

Take some pics of the lines and the controller for better assist you.

 

[Project95awd]

We can't see the boost controller.
Take a pic of the boost controller itself, showing the lines where they come from and where they go to, so we can look at it and tell you where they go.

If you want a fast answer, Just remove the controller and link both lines of the controller.

Take some pics of the lines and the controller for better assist you.

The boost controller is that rectangular purple thing all zip tied up below the BOV on top of the intake.

 

[TSicktalon]

1. Run a line from the BOV directly to a nipple on the intake manifold. No tees, no anything else on that line.

2. Boost controller should be IM>BC>WG, it's not as important for it to have it's own line, but I do prefer to do the same. Way I figure, the fewer things sharing a line, less to go wrong.

 

[Project95awd]

1. Run a line from the BOV directly to a nipple on the intake manifold. No tees, no anything else on that line.

2. Boost controller should be IM>BC>WG, it's not as important for it to have it's own line, but I do prefer to do the same. Way I figure, the fewer things sharing a line, less to go wrong.

If I took the BC out and just ran a line from the IM to the WG is there a special line/hose I need to get? do don't know if the boost was originally controlled by a solenoid in the stock line itself or what...Sorry new to boosted engines still learning haha.

 

[TSicktalon]

That will work fine. Regular vacuum line is fine. It is controlled by a solenoid from the factory, but it isn't necessary. Look on the firewall behind the im to see if you atoll have the solenoid , it looks just like the fuel pressure solenoid.

 

[wkmitsu]

If I'm reading this correctly, there is some misinformation here.

First you don't want to connect your wastegate pressure source to the intake manifold, you want it to be as close to the compressor housing as possible. That being said, it looks like you're on stock turbo, so there should be a port right off the compressor housing which you can connect to, this is the same one used from the factory.

Remove the boost controller for now until you have some way of reading boost pressure. Do that by connecting the wastegate directly to the aforementioned port on the compressor housing. Then take the boost controller and any remaining lines out of the engine bay.

Second, the Boost Control Solenoid (BCS) is not on the firewall behind the intake manifold, it's on a bracket that is mounted to the frame rail right below the factory airbox. For simplicity sake, I recommend you just hook up directly from wastegate to compressor housing for now.

Third, there is a dedicated port from the factory on the top of the intake manifold plenum (slightly offset to the throttle body side from center, about 1.25" long) for the BOV, find it and hook your BOV directly to it.

 

[Project95awd]

If I'm reading this correctly, there is some misinformation here.

First you don't want to connect your wastegate pressure source to the intake manifold, you want it to be as close to the compressor housing as possible. That being said, it looks like you're on stock turbo, so there should be a port right off the compressor housing which you can connect to, this is the same one used from the factory.

Remove the boost controller for now until you have some way of reading boost pressure. Do that by connecting the wastegate directly to the aforementioned port on the compressor housing. Then take the boost controller and any remaining lines out of the engine bay.

Second, the Boost Control Solenoid (BCS) is not on the firewall behind the intake manifold, it's on a bracket that is mounted to the frame rail right below the factory airbox. For simplicity sake, I recommend you just hook up directly from wastegate to compressor housing for now.

Third, there is a dedicated port from the factory on the top of the intake manifold plenum (slightly offset to the throttle body side from center, about 1.25" long) for the BOV, find it and hook your BOV directly to it.

This is really helpful thank you so much! I will take a look at it this weekend, I will aslo be dropping the trans to swap the clutch kit. So I will be plenty busy haha.