I was able to take the car out on a nice 2 hour drive around the greater Portland metro area this morning-- the 1 year old napped pretty much the whole drive and the 4 year old talked non-stop -- but the car performed very well. The boost behaved much differently than it did before I worked on the wastegate -- rapid and even spool up to around 10 psi, no malingering around 5 psi on the way up. I dropped it into third on 26 and hit the throttle up to around 4000 rpm and boost was right around 12 psi - which is about right I believe. No problem with uphill power at all. I still have not done a 0 to 60. Not a lot of good, flat places around here to do that.

Seems like the wastegate was the problem. I think there is still some improvement to be made and I will hit the linkage with lubricant and cycle some compressed air behind the pod once I get my air compressor back. Thanks Dave for the advice.

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