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Old 06-11-2009, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by bnzpwr View Post
is it possible to have bypassed the switchover valve? there is a vacuum valve looking thing thats bolted to the heat shield against the firewall which my mechanic said he bypassed. I was wondering if this is the switchover valve?
What your mechanic did is BAD. I'd put that back into working order right away. That is there to prevent overboost fueling and damage to the engine in the case of a waste gate failure on the turbo. Your "mechanic" doesn't know what he's doing! (Or he does, and thats even worse!)
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