at the risk of being ridiculed, i'm going to ask this question.
i've read various statments regarding whether being loose will leak boost, and i am also trying to keep a balance so i vent correctly at idle

im seeing about 5psi on a 11lb pulley. that's "whatever" to me since my car has almost 150k and im not looking to destroy it.

so i played with the BOV screw on my BLITZ again and when tightened maybe 3/4 rotation from full tightness, i saw 8lbs.

**i would slip after a certain rpm, perhaps because im on a stock clutch?
does this sound most likely?

but then i noticed i wasnt venting at idle and that is not a wanted effect, (and maybe i was getting psyched out, but my idle was slightly jumpy)
so i loosened it.

**my main question is if you have a BLITZ , do you know about how tight yours is , relative to full tightness or otherwise?
are all the screws identical in these units?

(also i read in one old thread that it was louder facing the bov to the passenger side. anyone have it oriented that way? and is it true? just curious)

thanks all

 

I ran the Blitz with a 3.0 pulley and never had issues with it. I cant remember just where it was set at, but I know it wasnt tightened all the way down. When your adjusting it, are you loosening the nut and then raising/lowering the threaded post? What pulley are you on?
Where is the boost gauge recieving vac from?

 

Thanks dude. I'll check my plumbing (it was installed by pro and I haven't really gotten around to examining the source of the boost pressure reading)
Its a 3.125 pulley and I adjust the screw by first loosening the nut.
Where's the most accurate source to tap line for the boost gauge? (Its a prosport gauge which I've had luck w before)

 

i think my boost vac line is tapped to a source that is plugged into a stock nipple protruding from i guess the lead into the intake plenum right after the TB

does that sound right to you?

i adjusted the BOV to vent generously during idle, but just before its too tight to not do so. i guess thats balanced.
so unless someone can verify that the vac source for the boost gauge is correctly tapped, maybe im reading a faulty boost reading?

 

That should be ok, just as long as there arent too many other things also on that source.

 

iirc from what I saw the other day, it is T'ed one more time (downstream to the gauge) to plumbback (?) line from the BOV.

thanks for the insight flava

 

I have the blitz bov. I cant get it to vent at idle no mater how much i loosen it . any idea why?

 

Take it off, open it up and oil everything up. That worked for me.