BOV - Why have you fitted one, apart from the 'look at me' noise?

I am not aware of a class record for my car, all I am trying to do is build the world's fastest UK Road legal Elan :)

Methinks you are setting the bar very high if anyone wants to take the title away when you achieve your goal |B
 
Absolutely, I'm not daft :)

14,000 cars made in total and most kept stock. But a title is a title :) However, I plan to raise the bar as high as I can in case someone is mad enough to try to beat me.
 
Hell, I have just had a thought. I wonder if the Guiness Book of Records would be interested in a new record class? :)
 
Friends, Forum members, lurkers, lend me your ears;
I come to bury BOVs, not to praise them.
The evil that BOVs do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with BOVs. The noble Old-Git
Hath told you BOVs are ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath BOVs answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Old-Git and the rest–
For Old-Git is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak at BOV's funeral.
 
Steve after reading you waxing lyrical it begs the question did you write this after a we dram or 3 of Drambuie ,Black Label or some similar legal substance.?-/;):):D:rofl:
 
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By William Shakespeare


(from Julius Caesar, spoken by Marc Antony)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
 
First let me say that I am new to having a turbo car. Secondly, I recently became ashamed of my lack of knowledge. With that said, please forgive me if I say something dumb. Is a blow off valve the same thing as a waste gate? I don't really want to comment before I know that.
 
No a BOV is installed in the pipes between the turbo compressor outlet and the inlet manifold and it is designed to release pressure when the throttle is closed only when there is positive pressure in the inlet system between the turbo compressor and the inlet manifold/ plenum.

A waste gate can be built into the turbo turbine outlet (the hot side ) or an external WG can be mounted on a separate pipe that comes from the exhaust manifold that is then connected to the exhaust dump pipe. The WG is there to regulate boost pressure so the motor will not be damaged by boost pressure higher than the ECU/computer has been tuned for.

Higher boost pressures require the fuel and ignition maps to be tuned/adjusted to suit the increased power that will be generated when the boost pressure is raised otherwise there may be serious engine damage.
 
Ok cool. I knew that the WG was needed to prevent surge. I'm personally not a fan of any mod that doesn't offer a gain. I don't think changing the sound is a gain.
 
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