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General Category => Forced Induction => Topic started by: random-strike on February 25, 2010, 02:08:06 AM

Title: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on February 25, 2010, 02:08:06 AM
HX40

Anyone tried to lower the boost on the internal wastegate? adjust the screw to lengthen the rod??? kinda lame to have it open partially all the time and fuck up spool times.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: 90turboteg on February 25, 2010, 02:11:46 AM
i wouldn't, just get an external wastegate, cdm all the way if your on a budget. ive never tryed to lower the boost on any of my setups, always trying to crank the mbc to nog :noel:
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on February 25, 2010, 02:12:27 AM
i'm trying to keep it as simple as possible using an internal waste gate.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: 90turboteg on February 25, 2010, 02:17:42 AM
well get a internal gate off a dsm/garret turbo thats around what you want pressure wise and make a bracket. thats not too hard. i have a stock dsm wg u can have
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: arsenio on February 25, 2010, 02:21:57 AM
looks like it should work.

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/articles-turbo-system-intercooler/211040-how-mod-your-internal-wastegate.html (http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/articles-turbo-system-intercooler/211040-how-mod-your-internal-wastegate.html)
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: caged on February 26, 2010, 01:30:49 AM
Dont forget that the hx40w's wastegate only vents off exhaust from 1 scroll, you may be ok if you are not rocking a divided manifold tho.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on February 26, 2010, 01:56:31 AM
well get a internal gate off a dsm/garret turbo thats around what you want pressure wise and make a bracket. thats not too hard. i have a stock dsm wg u can have

ok i'll prob do this. i have a ton of them laying around.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on February 26, 2010, 02:24:16 AM
Dont forget that the hx40w's wastegate only vents off exhaust from 1 scroll, you may be ok if you are not rocking a divided manifold tho.

i don't know much about the turbo except that its one of the bigger ones i can find with a internal wg
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: 90turboteg on February 26, 2010, 03:33:31 AM
well get a internal gate off a dsm/garret turbo thats around what you want pressure wise and make a bracket. thats not too hard. i have a stock dsm wg u can have

ok i'll prob do this. i have a ton of them laying around.

ya why not it will work
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: BoostedSchemes on February 26, 2010, 06:50:18 PM
it wont work... my 2.5l was spooling my 21cm housing holset no problem with the wastgate wired wide open - holset wastegates are for regulating EGTs not really boost and will never work on a gas car. WOWastegate made 2 bar on my car right away.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: 90turboteg on February 26, 2010, 06:53:50 PM
its going on a gas truck :P and ya the stock internal wgs are tiny, but he can only try, who cares if the boost hits nog. really a 44+ sizes external should be used.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: BoostedSchemes on February 26, 2010, 07:01:22 PM
it WILL hit 20+psi no matter what you do, mine was redline limited to 33psi or so on a 2.5l revving to 7,000rpm which is rod snapper territory... i finally got an external, one piston later  O0
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on February 26, 2010, 08:52:25 PM
i know of at least a dozen people who have used these on mustangs

turbo mustangs forums is full of people using these. some using them as twins
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: BoostedSchemes on February 27, 2010, 03:48:43 PM
post a link you turd. I can link you to a few setups I know off the top of my head where stock holset wastegate = uncontrollable boost on a good flowing engine.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: Aero on February 27, 2010, 07:58:53 PM
The hole is pretty small.  IIRC its 19 or 20mm or something like that. Just keep in mind you may have issues.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on February 28, 2010, 02:29:32 PM
i know of at least a dozen people who have used these on mustangs

turbo mustangs forums is full of people using these. some using them as twins

So your telling me a V8 is running without external wastegate/s and using one or more hx40's? I so doubt that.   It only vents off one volute, there just isn't a way to vent the other volute and in this case the other bank ( If the manifolding is designed correctly).
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on February 28, 2010, 03:25:55 PM
i know of at least a dozen people who have used these on mustangs

turbo mustangs forums is full of people using these. some using them as twins

So your telling me a V8 is running without external wastegate/s and using one or more hx40's? I so doubt that.   It only vents off one volute, there just isn't a way to vent the other volute and in this case the other bank ( If the manifolding is designed correctly).

turbo mustangs forum has several cars running it.

they have twins one of each bank... dur

Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: BoostedSchemes on February 28, 2010, 05:44:14 PM
links you faggot
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on February 28, 2010, 06:39:52 PM
Go there and use the search I fby have them bookmarked
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: BoostedSchemes on March 01, 2010, 12:08:41 PM
no, you lying faggot, I know enough about cars and physics to know off hand you are a lying faggot. stick to race baiting and getting stuck in puddles. the pathetic flapper holes in both your mouth and the holset are not large enough to effectively regulate the flow of waste gasses that are endlessly being thrown at them.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 01, 2010, 02:47:05 PM
no, you lying faggot, I know enough about cars and physics to know off hand you are a lying faggot. stick to race baiting and getting stuck in puddles. the pathetic flapper holes in both your mouth and the holset are not large enough to effectively regulate the flow of waste gasses that are endlessly being thrown at them.

newb
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: dvst8r on March 01, 2010, 03:04:20 PM
no, you lying faggot, I know enough about cars and physics to know off hand you are a lying faggot. stick to race baiting and getting stuck in puddles. the pathetic flapper holes in both your mouth and the holset are not large enough to effectively regulate the flow of waste gasses that are endlessly being thrown at them.

This.

However the flapper is large enough that you can drill out the housing to 15/16"th's without any sealing issues, and you can drill right through the divider to control both volutes. This will give enough flow to control this turbo.

That being said, internal gates are gay as balls touching balls, and Johnny should just weld that shit shut, and put an external gate on.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: danz on March 01, 2010, 05:12:35 PM
it WILL hit 20+psi no matter what you do, mine was redline limited to 33psi or so on a 2.5l revving to 7,000rpm which is rod snapper territory... i finally got an external, one piston later  O0

i was still boosting, just weakly with SHIT spool up when my internal WG opened up from a shitty tack weld breaking.

still made 20psi on antilag too.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 02, 2010, 02:26:22 AM
http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=130915.0 (http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=130915.0)

http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=44389.0 (http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=44389.0)

http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58953.0 (http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58953.0)

just to name a few... hx40 users

im going to use the hx40 and drill a hole into the other divide on the housing
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on March 02, 2010, 02:55:35 AM
im going to use the hx40 and drill a hole into the other divide on the housing

So you have no idea how to properly use a turbo? n00b
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 02, 2010, 03:50:36 AM
im going to use the hx40 and drill a hole into the other divide on the housing

So you have no idea how to properly use a turbo? n00b

i've turbo'd more things than you've owned faggot
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on March 02, 2010, 03:57:59 AM
im going to use the hx40 and drill a hole into the other divide on the housing

So you have no idea how to properly use a turbo? n00b

i've turbo'd more things than you've owned faggot

Says who? you don't know shit.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 02, 2010, 04:11:39 AM
im going to use the hx40 and drill a hole into the other divide on the housing

So you have no idea how to properly use a turbo? n00b

i've turbo'd more things than you've owned faggot

Says who? you don't know shit.

dumbass newb. go look at your shitbox civic junk
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on March 02, 2010, 04:13:09 AM
im going to use the hx40 and drill a hole into the other divide on the housing

So you have no idea how to properly use a turbo? n00b

i've turbo'd more things than you've owned faggot

Says who? you don't know shit.

dumbass newb. go look at your shitbox civic junk

Haha, your an idiot.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: BoostedSchemes on March 04, 2010, 01:07:43 AM
http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=130915.0 (http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=130915.0)

http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=44389.0 (http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=44389.0)

http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58953.0 (http://www.theturboforums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58953.0)

just to name a few... hx40 users

im going to use the hx40 and drill a hole into the other divide on the housing


you fat retarded faggot they are all using external gates
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: HiProfile on March 12, 2010, 02:22:56 AM
and you can drill right through the divider to control both volutes. This will give enough flow to control this turbo.

THIS. It was either a dsm'r or turbo brick that cut the divider down past the WG hole, and allowed more gasses to flow out. The velocity of the gas doesn't like hopping back over a wall to go out a hole.


Realize how much you aren't spending for injectors and a new turbo and use that savings to get a CDM wastegate.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 12, 2010, 02:33:56 AM
We'll see how it works because I already got the turbo
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: dvst8r on March 12, 2010, 11:33:02 AM
...It was either a dsm'r or turbo brick that cut the divider down past the WG hole, and allowed more gasses to flow out. The velocity of the gas doesn't like hopping back over a wall to go out a hole.


It was neither, it was a cummins guy back in like 1995 - 1996.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: HiProfile on March 12, 2010, 01:36:36 PM
I'm not saying the first man in the world, I'm saying the last guy I saw who actually ran the turbo. Or if you want another way to see it, one of the latest gasoline-engine vehicles I saw it on.

Bust out the grinding bits and go to down. Ream it out like it's some girl's perineum that you're double-dipping. Aka taint/choda.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: dvst8r on March 12, 2010, 01:42:32 PM
Now the problem with that is you loose spool, to gain wastegate control. I would just drill out the one side to ~ 15/16th's to start, and if it is creeping, then drill through, and if it is still having issues, goto an external gate, or hog it out as HiProfile suggests.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on March 12, 2010, 01:47:11 PM
Or just buy the cheap ebay wastegate and not ruin a turbine housing being a cheap bastard. there no no reason to run devided and drill the housing.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 12, 2010, 04:28:46 PM
Or just buy the cheap ebay wastegate and not ruin a turbine housing being a cheap bastard. there no no reason to run devided and drill the housing.
ya there is, to control boost.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on March 12, 2010, 08:02:32 PM
Or just buy the cheap ebay wastegate and not ruin a turbine housing being a cheap bastard. there no no reason to run devided and drill the housing.
ya there is, to control boost.

The point i was making is if your going to drill the housing. You better off just buying a open housing.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: dvst8r on March 12, 2010, 08:55:50 PM
Or just buy the cheap ebay wastegate and not ruin a turbine housing being a cheap bastard. there no no reason to run devided and drill the housing.
ya there is, to control boost.

The point i was making is if your going to drill the housing. You better off just buying a open housing.

Why he can probably get away with just drilling the one volute out to 15/16ths, and it will probably do just fine, and still maintain the benefits of the divided housing. Even if he has to drill through the divide it is still better then a complete open housing.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on March 12, 2010, 10:07:19 PM
Or just buy the cheap ebay wastegate and not ruin a turbine housing being a cheap bastard. there no no reason to run devided and drill the housing.
ya there is, to control boost.

The point i was making is if your going to drill the housing. You better off just buying a open housing.

Why he can probably get away with just drilling the one volute out to 15/16ths, and it will probably do just fine, and still maintain the benefits of the divided housing. Even if he has to drill through the divide it is still better then a complete open housing.


How you figure? That is a very dangerous statement.

But honestly with the cost of a ebay 38mm who thinks this is a good idea. god damn.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: dvst8r on March 13, 2010, 12:04:02 PM
I figure because I have personally done it all the ways listed above (albeit with an HX-35, but same turbine wheel).

One other mod I forgot to mention, is that the backing plate stock is in the way, an only allows the wastegate flapper to open partially. There are aftermarket backing plates, or you can just to a little cutting and welding.

Response is still better with just drilling through then carving out the divide, or going to an open housing of similar size. As long as the manifold before it is still divided. The amount of extra flow through the turbine, in my opinion was not worth the loss of time it took to light, and the amount of boost lost in between shifts.

To give you some actual figures. On my truck, a stock HX-35 would light at 1450rpm, even with the wastegate actuator disconnected so the wastegate was essentially open, it would still slowly climbed to a max of 47psi. With the wastegate wired shut, it would climb to a maximum of 52psi. Both with drive pressures in the 80psi + range.

With the single volute drilled to 15/16th's, and the wastegate set to open at 35psi, it would maintain that with in about 2psi in 1st-3rd, in 4th it would creep to about 40psi, and in 5th, would hit about 42psi. It would still light at 1450rpm. Drive pressures in 1st-3rd were about 37-40psi, in 4th and 5th would skyrocket to 70psi+

With the divide drilled right though, boost would maintain solid at 35-37psi, in all gears, as long as I stayed near that 35-37psi drive pressures stayed close to 1:1 or 37-42psi range, but as soon as I tried for more they took off. It would light at ~1475rpm.

With the divide augured out, and cleaned up, it wouldn't light till 1575rpm, I could push it to ~38psi before drive took off, and it felt lazy between shifts.

I have never seen an open housing internal gate for a Holset of that size before, if you know of one I would gladly purchase it and test it and add it too the list.

Now I have never done this, but I have seen it on the internet  :P of it being opened up to 40mm, now it took a fair bit of machining to accomplish, and I really don't know if it was worth it.


For the actual time and effort of each step, this is what I would suggest. Modify the back plate, and drill out the single volute and run it. If that is not enough, drill the hole into the second volute. If still not enough, get an external gate.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 13, 2010, 04:39:15 PM
Ill let everyone know how it works on a gas engine
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: 88dx on March 13, 2010, 04:55:59 PM
Ill let everyone know how it works on a gas engine
hopefully its pre-set to NOG for the Dyno  :yes:
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: turbob16hatch on March 13, 2010, 05:12:01 PM
I figure because I have personally done it all the ways listed above (albeit with an HX-35, but same turbine wheel).

One other mod I forgot to mention, is that the backing plate stock is in the way, an only allows the wastegate flapper to open partially. There are aftermarket backing plates, or you can just to a little cutting and welding.

Response is still better with just drilling through then carving out the divide, or going to an open housing of similar size. As long as the manifold before it is still divided. The amount of extra flow through the turbine, in my opinion was not worth the loss of time it took to light, and the amount of boost lost in between shifts.

To give you some actual figures. On my truck, a stock HX-35 would light at 1450rpm, even with the wastegate actuator disconnected so the wastegate was essentially open, it would still slowly climbed to a max of 47psi. With the wastegate wired shut, it would climb to a maximum of 52psi. Both with drive pressures in the 80psi + range.

With the single volute drilled to 15/16th's, and the wastegate set to open at 35psi, it would maintain that with in about 2psi in 1st-3rd, in 4th it would creep to about 40psi, and in 5th, would hit about 42psi. It would still light at 1450rpm. Drive pressures in 1st-3rd were about 37-40psi, in 4th and 5th would skyrocket to 70psi+

With the divide drilled right though, boost would maintain solid at 35-37psi, in all gears, as long as I stayed near that 35-37psi drive pressures stayed close to 1:1 or 37-42psi range, but as soon as I tried for more they took off. It would light at ~1475rpm.

With the divide augured out, and cleaned up, it wouldn't light till 1575rpm, I could push it to ~38psi before drive took off, and it felt lazy between shifts.

I have never seen an open housing internal gate for a Holset of that size before, if you know of one I would gladly purchase it and test it and add it too the list.

Now I have never done this, but I have seen it on the internet  :P of it being opened up to 40mm, now it took a fair bit of machining to accomplish, and I really don't know if it was worth it.


For the actual time and effort of each step, this is what I would suggest. Modify the back plate, and drill out the single volute and run it. If that is not enough, drill the hole into the second volute. If still not enough, get an external gate.

I know you have experience with diesel's but to be honest gas engine are way different. they don't respond to divided housings like diesels, yeah there better in some instances but just not as dramatic as diesels.

But i spose i will shut up now and await results.
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: random-strike on March 13, 2010, 05:28:43 PM
Ill let everyone know how it works on a gas engine
hopefully its pre-set to NOG for the Dyno  :yes:

boost is always set to nog
Title: Re: HX40 wastegate
Post by: dvst8r on March 13, 2010, 11:40:31 PM

I know you have experience with diesel's but to be honest gas engine are way different. they don't respond to divided housings like diesels, yeah there better in some instances but just not as dramatic as diesels.

But i spose i will shut up now and await results.

It is all just an air pump. I play with gas motors too.