Thread: boosting wrong. help please
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Old 05-16-2010, 10:26 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Bru View Post
I have added 3.5mm of washers under the waste gate bracket to shim it up.
Bad idea. You limit the range of motion of the actuator and open yourself up to the possibility of boost creep and running lean. Just build a cheap manual boost controller... they're very easy to make and a decent bit safer to run.


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