Dump valve?

I'm thinking if getting blow off valve for my bug sti what's the best brands? cant decide between a forge one or a turbosmart one at the minute but opinions and advice would be welcome!

The best would be a HKS one but they cost £300+ for a real one.
There's loads and loads of fakes about they normally go for about £80 stay well clear

Waste of money, stick with what god gave it.

Either that or block the hole, close the turbo waste gate, fit an external one and look forward to some turbo chatter

natski wrote:

The best would be a HKS one but they cost £300+ for a real one.
There's loads and loads of fakes about they normally go for about £80 stay well clear

Good to know! I saw a second hand one on Jap performance parts website for about 150 quid something like that so are the cheaper ones no good? I've seen a few cars with the forge ones like

atwrx wrote:

Waste of money, stick with what god gave it.

Either that or block the hole, close the turbo waste gate, fit an external one and look forward to some turbo chatter

Interesting, how much would an external waste gate set me back? When bob rawle was mapping it he said that he thinks they run better with the recirculating one on but I love the sound! (Very childish I know!)

Got a duel piston forge dv in mine, sounds mint

I can remember the days when baileys were dv of choice on the classic!!

Mikeblobsti wrote:

Got a duel piston forge dv in mine, sounds mint

I can remember the days when baileys were dv of choice on the classic!!

Lol I was thinking about the bailey one but I see far more forge ones new age cars so assumed they were better

Can't fault my forge one, had it 2 years and never a problem. I've heard that springs sometimes snap in them though

Might be the one to go for then! I've seen them for about 150 quid on demon tweeks and the like. What about the turbosmart ones? Are they any good?

ive got a Turbo XS one here forsale if your intrested

same as

http://turboxs.com/shop/blow-off-valves/131-blow-off-valve-type-h-rfl.html

I had a hks on my now in the sky wr1 loved the sound of it but cant justify the price maybe get a used one ? although im thinking about a forge one myself i want something loud

How much mousey? And is it a straight fit for the bug?

Got forge one on mine, second hand off Steviedoo, spring did go, but only fiver for two new springs, well happy.

i bought it off keith off of here, ideally only want back what i paid for it which was £40

i bought it originally for my classic, not realizing it would be different from newage lol

go on youtube, theres a few vidoes to hear what it sounds like, according to keith its very loud

up to you

MattyNoz wrote:

atwrx wrote:

Waste of money, stick with what god gave it.

Either that or block the hole, close the turbo waste gate, fit an external one and look forward to some turbo chatter

Interesting, how much would an external waste gate set me back? When bob rawle was mapping it he said that he thinks they run better with the recirculating one on but I love the sound! (Very childish I know!)

No idea, but it's not the best thing to do unless you fancy rebuilding your turbo every few thousand miles. It's how rally cars produce the chatter....and they replace their turbo after a few events.

Andy Forrest said the same, the engines run better with standard recirc valves than they do with vent-to-air valves.

Lol maybe not then! It's my daily runner and I'm not in a position do be rebuilding the bugger all the time!

mousey wrote:

i bought it off keith off of here, ideally only want back what i paid for it which was £40

i bought it originally for my classic, not realizing it would be different from newage lol

go on youtube, theres a few vidoes to hear what it sounds like, according to keith its very loud

up to you

Ill take a look on you tube, cheers mate! You had any issues with it?

nah its spot on, and its literally a 2min install lol not hard at all

Sounds good! Ill get in touch when i get paid in a couple of weeks if that's ok? The petrol has me brasses this month! The other thing is will I need it mapped again so it doesn't read an air fuel mix fault or anything like that?

Getting it mapped would help yes, but its not necessary to be honest. it should be ok, give it enough time the ecu should re-learn this new setting providing its not massively different, but to be fair i rarely hear anyone having problems when installing most bov's.

but i wouldnt recommend blanking it off unless you have a TD series turbo as the VH series compressors just aren't strong enough and will only be a matter of time before it pops lol

saying that people do run these plates on VH 3's/4's range just they don't last very long on the VF 2's

Also if for what ever reason it decides to throw a fault code, my friend has a code reader that can take it off

Great stuff cheers mate!

I had a Forge one on my silver Bugeye and had no problems with it in nearly 3 years, when I bought my Hawkeye it had a GFB dump valve on which is really loud and sounds like its going off in the glove box when in the car, I know some don't like them but I personally love the sound.