Dave East

Evenin,

Just thought I'd post, to say what a difference it makes to lavish some TLC on your car!

Took the boost solenoid off, and all its pipes. Connected the green conectors, used half a bottle of brake cleaner and thoroughly cleaned the buggers out. Also removed the plastic air box from the wing and routed a cold air feed to my K&N.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!! But hardly suprising after seeing how much oil pished out of the solenoid!! Pre cleaning, on the way back from Birmingham, on the M40 the knock link was like a Christmas tree. Post cleaning it barley registers, even on full attack at faintly ludicrous speed!!

A well running scooby is a wonderful thing!! Pop pop, bang bang!! Gotta love it!!!!

pslewis

I'm surprised the CockLink didn't clean the Boost Slenoid as well

mattp11

Where abouts is the boost solenoid? Feel like doing that to mine, any pics?

Matt

Dave East

Its mounted on the left hand side suspension turret, (as you look at the car). If it's a 2 port type, then unsuprisingly there are 2 pipes coming out of it!! One pipe goes to a t-piece that connects to the wastgate, the other to the air intake pipe work.

Do a search, there are plenty of pics out there!!

teamheath2

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I was just thnking the same thing!!!! Any pics or info would be handy !

The Rig

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i must be lucky,cleaned min eout and it was spotless,no black crap or anything.

weird,but glad urs is running sweet now

Dave East

The Rig - cheers mate! I guess each car has its own individual 'odd' characteristics!!

A question for the more technically minded - why does the Boost solenoid fill up with oil? Is it due to overfilling the engine oil? Would a catch can go someway to preventing this oil leekage?

aRSekicker

HI GUYS IVE BEEN WANTING TO DO THIS 2 MINE IF ANY OF YOU FIND ANY PICS ABOUT CLEANING BOOST SOLENOID PLEASE LET ME KNOW

STi wanna Subaru

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Search is a wonderful function fellas

Maz

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For a minor celebrity you've very few posts Dave, Used Car Buyer featuring the Subarus from a few years back.

Dave East

That was a TOP TOP day!! I'm impressed! Were you there, sorry I'm really crap with names!!

I've still got a laminated copy of the page with my car stuck above my desk at work!!!!!

As for low posts, well. I guess there are 2 excuses really! One, I'm a lazy git who prefers to 'watch'!!!

Second, I try to only offer advice when I'm 100% sure I'm not talking tosh!!

I should really get some pics of my car up on the site, no excuses for that!!

mac12

try scoobymods for pics and cleaning guides

pslewis

An admirable quality and one I, too, subscribe to

Maz

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I can imagine it was with the lovely machinery surrounding you. I wasn't there, but when I saw your name I remembered the article even though I hadn't seen it for a long while. I still have the magazine and can imagine you all must have had a lot of fun compiling that feature.

Dave East

The day was excellent - as you can see form the article there were some extremely tasty cars there! Escpecally Fatmanscoobs Type R (drool drool) and the 22B example that was there!!

The best bit was getting to hammer round the track once my rolling shots had been taken!! (the BTCC boys were there as well testing, which was fairly interesting!!!)