While I just got this car at the beggining of the month and so far I really love it. The car came with the inline kit but not guages, so i purchased an aem tru boost and aem UEGO


After installing the guages i found out the car wasnt even boosting more then a pound or two.
I also took this oppertunity to fix my BOV flutter by cleaning the BOV and giving it some from lubracation.
SO.....fixxing the BOV I ended up finding a total of 7psi. So now im trying to figure out why it is only boosting 7 psi. First thing i think of is the most obvius answer, its a boost leak, so with that thought in mind i set about purchasing the materials i needed to make my own boost leak detector.
So i buy the stuff i needed and get the opertunity to see if it will work for me and I come to a interesting obstacle. The stock "intake" on the Inline kit effectivly wedges the filter against the frame rail, makeing moving it or even getting it off the car some what of a pain in the ass. SO this led to the next update!
So im looking on these forums and see a thread about of all things, a cheap fix for the inlinepro intake, so I said im all about that and went to advance auto and purchased a cheapie APC intake. about 20 minutes later I go from this

TO this



Not only is this asteticly more pleasing it makes setting the leak detector MUCH easier, but my coupler i purchased ended up being a bit to big so still no test has been done.
Now I have a question, I find it extremly coincidentle that the car is only doing 7 psi, as its a 7psi spring in the wastegate. Now the boost controller is hooked up correctly and is set for higher then 7 psi, but is there a way to test that the unit is functioning as it should before i go nuts looking for a boost leak that may or may not exist.

 

You might try a more descriptive thread title like:

SO I'm trying to find a boost leak

or

SO I'm not sure my boost controller is working

 

no matter, now its boosting like a fiend. Turns out I never set the waste gate spring pressure so it was cracking at 2 psi, turned it up and it works like a charm now, only down side is now i need a clutch lol

 

So shouldn't matter if you have boost control set up properly.