Wastegate porting

[BPATT]

I want to port my wastegate. To see if it gives me a little more boost control. Does anybody on the board port waste gates?

THANKS
BP

 

[Loeryder]

You can do a little work to the exhaust housing itself first to see if it helps.

Looking into the housing from where it attaches to the manifold you can see the sqaured opening the air must enter to flow through the WG.
Round out the edge nearet to the opening (closest to you).

This cuts down the sharp angle the air has to change direction before hitting the WG and may result in better control.

If you are talking about opening up the WG and installing a larger "puck" then richard Chan used to do it, but I've not seen much feedback about him lately.

Try contacting Reed at www.turborepair.com
He does lots of work for list/bb members lately.

 

[smeagol]

If you are going to do it yourself or have it done cheaply, ok... if it is approaching anywhere in the 3 digit range, i'd really recommend getting an external gate on the crossover. Keep it for any turbo upgrades you'd do in the future too.