Ok,...I aint given you no video.
You just have to suffice w/ stills and my witty commentary.
When last we remember The chinee waste gates wouldn't open until 14 p.s.i., despite the fact that they had 5 pound springs.
The reason for the HUGE difference was due to the slop between the valve, and the guide. MOF, air was escaping so significantly,..it literally backed up against the palm of your hand when you blocked both the inlet and outlet w/ the palms of your hand.
When you have an engine that has an unknown compression ration due to the fact that I have either got dimensia, alzheimers, oldtimers, or some other brain disintegrating illness,...having no clue where your boost is gonna top out would be......................
Bad. Yes,.....let's just say that having a wastegate just arbitrarily decide to spike up to 15p.s.i. would be extremely bad.
So,...they needed to go.
I will not rehash the jugphck that took place to get two new gates, but let me just say this about that...they are lucky that those gates arrived here today. Especially considering that this city has effectively shut down due to the fact that we are in an ice storm as of this minute.
But I digress.
I open the gates and immediately you can see the difference. The quality of the part is obvious. The valve is similar to what you'd expect in a high perf automotive engine, and had a stepped tapered stem. When you look at the Chinee gate,..big ole Klondor looking thing, w/ no taper.
The Tsmart gate is significantly heavier than the Chinee copy. Probably the difference between alloys on the body castings and internals making up the difference there.
The thing passes the "Why did I pay 4 times more than a Chinee piece" test just by sight and feel.
But I needed to do the pressure test to complete my review.
I rigged up the exact same tester that I used on the Ding-Pao version, and applied slow incremented pressure to the bottom port of the gate. (These things are supposed to have 7 pound springs).
Gate #1 (The blue gate):
The gate started to crack open at 8.5 pounds, and was fully open at 15 p.s.i. There was zero leakage past the guide, and every other time I applied pressure to the gate it did the exact same thing.
Gate #2 (The black gate):
This one started to open at 8 p.s.i, and was also fully open by 15 p.s.i. It also duplicated that standard everytime I re-applied pressure.
That left me w/ a half pound discrepancy between the gates.
Do I care about that?
Do I have to get the finger out for a final answer?...........................well?
.....................Of course not.
Not only does the finger say no,..The fingers says Hell no!
So,..I got these two gates,..one is black, and one is blue. Considering that I name almost everything when I talk about this car...
(i.e Winkin, and Blinkin,...G vents/Gills/Nostrils/Hole,)........... I'd guess that you'd think I'd probably have a name for the waste gates.
No silly,...they're wastegates. Why in the hell would I name some inanimate object?
I'm all prattled out,....I guess I'll tie this up with my pictorial.
Now I'm gonna tell ya,...That back blue gate is a sonofabtch to put on,..you can bet I was cussing up a storm.
So,...I'm back in the boost business. The only casualty was one hard line,...For whatever reason there was enough difference between the Chinee and the Aussie, that that short hard line looked like ass. So,..I'll have to make a new one.
In the mean time,..I'm drinkin grapefruit tasting beer.
And I have a "don't ask, don't tell" thingy going on w/ the wife,.....She didn't ask,....and I'm not tellin.
I guess I'll be going back to ebay.