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Originally Posted by JDmills
I elected to bypass the overboost sensor on my 84 TDT this afternoon on a whim. cannot tell much difference in terms of performance. Then I got to thinking that a wastegated turbo, is also a overboost protection, so why the redundency of a overboost sensor? may be I dont have enough boost going on to make it to the enrichment circut? Just curious, as I have plenty of other projects to do on this car before playing with the engine...
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Wastegate hoses fail...particularly when they are as old as many of these.....its a failsafe protection and the Garret t-3 WILL give over 20 psi boost when that hose fails....and will do it without warning.
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