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Opened my car up on the highway tonight from about 50-90 and found the following.

1) Spiking to 17 lbs - however the BCS quickly brings it back down to 15.

2) Air fuel mixture was reading 1.04 v and holding (which is WICKED rich). Second time I gunned it it came down to around .92- .94 v. I'm hoping that the 1.04v was because of the temperature variance (cool in morning and hot during day) lately and or because I don't floor my car that much.

Have any of you guys eliminated boost spike?

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I usually get spike inbetween gears, im not so sure you can reduce that, not positive.

I know dawes claims there MBC pretty much eleminates spiking, I don't know if that will fit in with your current setup though.

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There was a post/thread on here a while ago on how to eliminate spiking... I think it was a technique courtesy of the Saab or Audi guys, but I forget. IIRC, the basic setup was a sort of split section of tubing, with a MBC on one fork of a Y and some sort of valve on the other fork that would vent to atmosphere above a certain pressure....

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Opened my car up on the highway tonight from about 50-90 and found the following.

  1) Spiking to 17 lbs - however the BCS quickly brings it back down to 15.

  2) Air fuel mixture was reading 1.04 v and holding (which is WICKED rich). Second time I gunned it it came down to around .92- .94 v. I'm hoping that the 1.04v was because of the temperature variance (cool in morning and hot during day) lately and or because I don't floor my car that much.

  Have any of you guys eliminated boost spike?

Dont put faith in narrowband 02 readings.

I tuned my car to 1.2 volt, blew a headgasket bougth a wideband and found that 1.2v w/ my narrow band at WOT was actually 17:1 AFR.

Im dead serious.

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I've run 20 PSI on the 15G with the speedtuning chip and still have high 170's, 180 PSI across all cylinders for compression. Um, I blew a couple exhaust seals I think, though. The Speedtuning chip has you run pretty rich, how do you have the MBC setup?

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