shannonlujan said:
Ah yes, the ole GFB.
First of all those are expensive, and second of all, its just gonna remedy the rich problem. Prolly is the best aftermarket valve for our car though.
Stock bypass valve converted to blow off is a waste of time. I'll be asking permission to delete those two threads in the projects. I don't want anyone wasting their time and f*cking up their cars.
why would you delete the Brady mod. For people running stock boost up to 12psi's the Brady mod is all you need for a blow-off valve, until you go higher. Ive been running with the Brady Valve BOV for awhile now, and Ive got to say I love the sound it makes (competes very well with the "sound" of Aftermarket BOV's), Ive never had a problem with compression surge with it, and My Vacume is just fine, reads 20 at idle and 25 under deaccelration, Ive experienced no stalling ever. the only problem Ive ever had with the Brady Valve mod is the backfiring (which is a problem with any BOV on our cars, except for the GFB one), and once the gutts of the valve blew out on me, and that was only because I had the valve adjusted improperly (not tight enough..barly closed under vacume) but drillling the holes in the valve as described in the thread will prevent that problem, or just do what I did...go and buy the 1/4" brady Valve..its non adjustable (so the thing can't unscrew on its own and lose the spring and stuff, which is why the gutts blow out of the adjustable ones) but its set just perfect to allow the boosted air to blow off, (sounds like a turbo xs BOV) and not leak one bit of vacume, not even for a second when under idle or deaccellration.
So tell me Shann. why would someone, like me, who isn't running more than 12-13psi's most of the time who can't afford a Expensive BOV right at the moment. be wasting their time by doing a FREE mod that WORKS just fine?
Now Ive never tried the venting mod, and I never plan on it, because that does fu*k with the car's vacume. A brady BOV set right will not. IMHO this brady BOV sounds and works just as good as an aftermarket BOV for boost up to 12psi's. The only downfall about it is, the amount of boost it can handle is limited to what the stock bypass can hold. thats it, other than that it works fine, and I for one was happy that the Brady mod was in the projects section it helped me get the woosh sound with no problems for almost a year now...and my turbo still works just as good as it did the day I bought the car.
So please do a favor for the people running stock boost or no higher than 12psi's who wants a BOV without spending an arm and a leg...and leave the BRady Valve mod there because ITS NOT A WASTE OF TIME for people on stock boost! And it works great. Im sure there are other people on this site who have tried the Brady Valve mod (and did it the correct way) who have had no problem with it. Ask Chris Osborne with the F2T RX-7 he is the one that came up with the Idea, and Im sure he will tell you that the Brady Valve mod is great for stock boost.
I guess what im trying to say is...Don't be so selfish, just because you didn't like the Brady mod (you must of did it wrong or you used one of the adjustable ones that can once in a while unscrew when blowing off), dosn't mean that other people like me haven't had sucess with it, and it also dosn't mean that other people shouldn't get the chance to see if they like it or not.
Oh yeah another thing...if you do use the adjustable ones and your having the problem with it blowing its gutts out, all you have to do is set it where you want it then use some crazy glue and glue the adjustment knob in place by putting a little dab of glue on the threads.
So in conclusion I believe that its not a waste of time to have your stock by-pass make a woosh sound and only hold max 12psi's, when otherwise you would still be limited to 12psi's but with no woosh sound!
methman