Anyone venting their Wastegates 2A?

Jtrain · February 12, 2015, 10:00:39 AM

Just curious.

EcoPowerParts · February 12, 2015, 10:02:55 AM

Wastegates are internal on these turbos, do you mean Blow Off Valves - BOV?
If so there's a how to in the how to section on doing that, lots of guys VTA with their BOV

peppelepugh · February 12, 2015, 10:20:19 AM

I've got it done, i love it. BUT**** If you have a warranty, be sure to slap the recirc hoses back on before heading to the dealership. Some people have mentioned their dealerships "master mechanic" saying that voids the warranty or was a root cause of their problem.

Me personally... doesn't make sense because it just dumps air back into the intake (PRE-Turbo side of things)

Jtrain · February 12, 2015, 10:52:19 AM

Oh, internal waste gates. Of course.

When you own a bunch of N/A cars and then finally buy a stock turbo car, you really learn that it's nothing what you thought it would be like.

Electronic Blow off valves and internal waste gates-- Yuck... I wish this car had a V8.

r1crusher · February 12, 2015, 01:01:06 PM

+1 for what peppele said. I was given some line of crap about mine when I took the sho in for recall work.

Jtrain · February 12, 2015, 01:06:46 PM

I don't even know how you vent an internal wastegate to atmo?

You guys have to be talking about BoVs... right?

IHeartGroceries · February 12, 2015, 02:33:50 PM

You'd have to make some significant alterations to vent a WG into what is called a dump pipe (VTA)
You'd need to either permanently disable the IWG flapper (weld), and route to an external afternarket gate (and associated plumbing and control), or you could divorce a pipe from the turbine housing at the flapper and just dump that pipe outside of the engine compartment. Very loud. Would be atrocious on such a fine automobile.

Nothing wrong with internally gated turbos. It works fine for smaller units like ours. Internally gated becomes a problem with larger volume. And it can vreate overboosting conditions as the gate can't keep up.

Jtrain · February 12, 2015, 04:15:05 PM

I understand the difficulties of making an internal V2A, that's why I was so upset to hear that (Though not surprised)

To respond to your opinion on the sound in relation to how "fine" our Fords are; I think the only thing that's atrocious is how completely silent this car is and how much power these motors should have.

3 cats, wtf?

IHeartGroceries · February 12, 2015, 08:48:05 PM

Well...I certainly don't disagree with that. Lmao

I guess three cats spells ECO.