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so i bought an HKS style BOV off of ebay and it looks great...i don't know how a real HKS BOV sounds like...but anyways....when i hit 3,500 RPMs it is not really loud? is this b/c of my turbo set up....( Intake to turbo...and intake filter to the turbo spool ) no intercooler....is this the problem....just not enough air sucking into the intake tube?

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Its not a good thing if your BOV is loud. Means its restrictive and not efficient enough for the boost your running.

 

Here's something you should do. Take off your turbo. Learn what a proper turbo setup is and then apply.

EDIT: This should help

MORE EDIT: I just re-read your post. And at 3,500 you're not at full boost. So its not expected to be loud.

 

And I have a question. Did you just decide one day to buy a turbo kit and bolt it on to your motor?

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Its not a good thing if your BOV is loud. Means its restrictive and not efficient enough for the boost your running.

 

Here's something you should do. Take off your turbo. Learn what a proper turbo setup is and then apply.

EDIT: This should help

MORE EDIT: I just re-read your post. And at 3,500 you're not at full boost. So its not expected to be loud.

 

And I have a question. Did you just decide one day to buy a turbo kit and bolt it on to your motor?

 

Not true. The BOV was designed to be loud, it just becomes louder as more air escapes. There is no problem with releasing the air like that because it actually does release, and does it in a matter of seconds. It's not long enough to cause damage/comp. surge.

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Not true. The BOV was designed to be loud, it just becomes louder as more air escapes. There is no problem with releasing the air like that because it actually does release, and does it in a matter of seconds. It's not long enough to cause damage/comp. surge.

Really? I've heard differently and it made sense actually. But if its true, like you say (and I believe you), that they designed BOV's to be loud then yeah I agree with you.

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Really? I've heard differently and it made sense actually. But if its true, like you say (and I believe you), that they designed BOV's to be loud then yeah I agree with you.

 

You're right, and whoever said it was right, that the high pitched noise was coming from the air escaping through a small passage, but there's so much pressure and it releases so quickly that compressor surge isn't a problem.

 

The SSQV, one of the BOV's that do make a high pitched noise, was designed to do so. I think it sounds cool.

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The SSQV, one of the BOV's that do make a high pitched noise, was designed to do so. I think it sounds cool.

I don't like it. Its soooo...cliche, i guess? Like everyone has one.

 

I like recirulating ones like Pyro said. What's the term for that? Atmospheric?

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No, atmospheric are the BOV's, like the HKS, GReddy, Blitz, TurboXS, etc.

 

Dump/recirculating/bypass like the HKS racing bypass just recycle the air back into the intake.

I know what it means to recirculate but I was just wondering if there was a term for it. I guess those 3 (dump/recirculating/bypass) are.

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No, atmospheric are the BOV's, like the HKS, GReddy, Blitz, TurboXS, etc.

 

Dump/recirculating/bypass like the HKS racing bypass just recycle the air back into the intake.

 

 

they are the same thing..... both blow off valves. Just puts the air 2 different places.

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They're called different things because they do different things goof troop. You can't just make a Tial 50mm a bypass valve. Go back to your corner.

 

 

oh you wanna bet?! give me a spool gun and some AL pipe, and it will be a "bypass" valve.

 

take a bypass valve, and remove the rubber hose that reroutes it, and BAM! what is it now?!

 

same damn thing.

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oh you wanna bet?! give me a spool gun and some AL pipe, and it will be a "bypass" valve.

 

take a bypass valve, and remove the rubber hose that reroutes it, and BAM! what is it now?!

 

same damn thing.

Sure they're both BOV's but one acts a little differently than the other. IMO, you shouldn't call that the same thing since they're different in those features.

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I wouldn't trust the egay BOV anyway. They have a tendency to have a craptty diaphragm and they shred easily when they let off boost or they leak and your stuck with replacing it with a good one.

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Sure they're both BOV's but one acts a little differently than the other. IMO, you shouldn't call that the same thing since they're different in those features.

 

 

header or exhaust manifold....do the same thing, why do we need two different names?

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