GB smoking turbo fix!!!

[bnoon]

F-it. I bought one. I'll put the stock banjo bolt back in and test everything again. I'm thinking the PCV pressures can mess with the oil pressure readings I was getting at the pre-turbo oil fitting. I hope we finally have the end all be all of oil fixes this time. I'm tired of the "works for me and him, but not that guy" reputation of previous fixes on this board and others.

[ptperformance]

Originally Posted by Speedie6 This part is obviously a no brainer. If you will CALL ME, I will take care of getting this on order, plus some other things we have discussed. I'm still curious as to what else we should be doing for the PCV system. Are you still going to do that super-dulux, nuclear-powered explosion-proof catch can that you had talked about before? Are you still doing the PCV relocate? I had thought about installing a Saiku Machi using the install instructions that Cobb did with dual check valves. But, I had been waiting to see what you were doing, and what Mazda was doing. It seems like the only thing Mazda is doing is a higher quality PCV check valve? At any rate, I'd really like to formulate a final plan on this so that I can get this issue behind me.

I will call you Monday if all goes well with the clutch install over the weekend. We are still doing that catch can, we are still doing the PCV relocate, I just need a little more time to dial in the issues with mounting locations for the catch can.

We will get you taken care of next week for sure, thanks.

Originally Posted by aaronc7 ordered

Thanks Aaron, when you get it can you call me? I have some additional logging I want you to do for me in the terms of knock. We have been checking on this after installs with customers cars and so far we have seen a huge reduction in knock. If you have any knock with your set up I would like to get some details from you about it after the part is installed.

Originally Posted by RUMBLEFISH Oh boy cant wait to see how this does and thanks for the effort you put into this. Money sent.

Thanks, we have seen many happy customers so far with this.

Originally Posted by crlsnlopes paid. couldn't have come at a better time. i just installed my TP and NOW i started to smoking a little .

Not a problem, please keep me posted after the install of the part.

Originally Posted by bnoon F-it. I bought one. I'll put the stock banjo bolt back in and test everything again. I'm thinking the PCV pressures can mess with the oil pressure readings I was getting at the pre-turbo oil fitting. I hope we finally have the end all be all of oil fixes this time. I'm tired of the "works for me and him, but not that guy" reputation of previous fixes on this board and others.

Thanks, I hope this is the final fix for these. We have had a 100% success rate so far with every customer that has installed one, so I expect to see this trend continue.

[jhershorin]

Paid. Thanks John. I just moved to VA and smoke at every light, every time, without digression. They have emissions testing and crazy tree huggin laws so hopefully this works. I smoke within 60 seconds of turning on the car.

[ptperformance]

Originally Posted by jhershorin Paid. Thanks John. I just moved to VA and smoke at every light, every time, without digression. They have emissions testing and crazy tree huggin laws so hopefully this works. I smoke within 60 seconds of turning on the car.

You are the people we are trying to get this part out to. That is why we started to sell them before the pat pending process was started. Thanks for the order.

[Addikted To Boost]

Originally Posted by jhershorin Paid. Thanks John. I just moved to VA and smoke at every light, every time, without digression. They have emissions testing and crazy tree huggin laws so hopefully this works. I smoke within 60 seconds of turning on the car.

i dont know where your living in va but ive been living here for 22 years and i have never once had to get an emissions check to get my inspection completed nor heard of anyone getting a ticket for emissions.

[Poohster]

Originally Posted by ptperformance Thanks, there is still some testing that needs to get done with the part and knock control. We suspect that the knock at 2700 RPM might be coming from the PCV system shutting down, if that is the case we will be reporting back on this. Thank you.

Hi John,

I was re-reading everything (probably because I am very excited!!) and noticed one of your replies. Am I mixing apples and oranges here? This testing is not the smoking turbo fix? or is this testing the PCV re-locate?

This little smoking turbo fix is not going to induce knock, right? Sorry, I got a little paranoid.

Again thanks for all the hard work.

[Addikted To Boost]

just ordered john i hope this thing works. I will take out my bnoon bolt and give this a try. does it go in the upper pcv hose coming off of the valve cover or the one that you have to access from underneath?

[aragorn764]

Paid, hope this works!

[aaronc7]

john, Ill give you a call when I get mine in.... and we can discuss whatever it is you wanted to regarding the knock, more than happy to help

[Erich]

Originally Posted by Poohster Hi John, I was re-reading everything (probably because I am very excited!!) and noticed one of your replies. Am I mixing apples and oranges here? This testing is not the smoking turbo fix? or is this testing the PCV re-locate? This little smoking turbo fix is not going to induce knock, right? Sorry, I got a little paranoid. Again thanks for all the hard work.

Quite the opposite. I have been working for a while to eliminate my part throttle knock with ATR with no luck. I can reproduce the part throttle knock fairly consistently at around 2750 RPM in 4th gear between .35 and .5 load (easiest to achieve on a slight incline.) In looking at the part throttle knock, one thing was always occurring, my intake pressure was in vacuum and transitioning from between -1 and -5 to between -7 and -10. It occurred to me that this may also be creating a condition where the PCV valve was going from closed to open.

Even though I wasn't smoking I asked John to install the fix to test if it had any effect on part throttle knock. Drove the 4 miles to John's house (intentionally inducing knock several times on the way) and had him install the part. I then drove around for a bit (about 10 miles total) trying to induce knock. I could not.

Now I am not willing to say that this fixed the knock yet as there are occasions (though rare) that I simply will not get any knock. I will do so more testing tomorrow, and then for the next week trying to induce part throttle knock. I will post back tomorrow and then after a week (or before if it turns out this actually has no effect on part throttle knock) but for now I will say that it looks encouraging.

[steven88]

where does this exactly install? can we see a pic?

i am not smoking at the moment...running full catless exhaust....however I am still interested in purchasing this if this will benefit my car in the long run....and if it will help smooth en out any kind of unwanted knock retard

[austin102085]

i got smoke so ill try anything..... paid

[Speedie6]

Originally Posted by steven88 where does this exactly install? can we see a pic?

He has said that he doesn't want to fully disclose as it is too easy to copy and he spent time/money figuring out the problem.

[kgb]

I ordered and will but stock boone bolt back in. But I will also lower my idle a bit too. Assuming 1 month from now this fix is THE fix, what oil weight is the best to use and more specifically, for a Tampa resident? I have amsoil 10w-30 in now. I ask the question because people were changing their oil weights to combat the smoking issue although the change may not have been optimal.

[jmhinkle]

HAHAHA. I bought one. I'd love to see anything stop my chimney from smoking. Money Back guarantee FTW.

[11cruzito11]

PTPerformance,

How long will this GroupBuy last for the Price of $25?

Also, I saw that there is money back guarantee, is it 100% refunded back?

Thanks,

[stealthspeed6]

Originally Posted by Speedie6 He has said that he doesn't want to fully disclose as it is too easy to copy and he spent time/money figuring out the problem.

well we will all find out when we get them so then what will he do?

[nighthawk358]

ptp is it $25 shipped?

[m4tic]

Originally Posted by stealthspeed6 well we will all find out when we get them so then what will he do?

patent pending....

[Speedn3]

funds sent....
Order Number: 4101

small price to pay for your time on the r&d john.
thanks

[Erich]

Originally Posted by bmorrisj patent pending....

Or just plain common decency.

[ptperformance]

Originally Posted by Poohster Hi John, I was re-reading everything (probably because I am very excited!!) and noticed one of your replies. Am I mixing apples and oranges here? This testing is not the smoking turbo fix? or is this testing the PCV re-locate? This little smoking turbo fix is not going to induce knock, right? Sorry, I got a little paranoid. Again thanks for all the hard work.

Yes this is the smoking turbo fix not the PCV relocate. It will not induce knock but probably cure knock (still testing). So your good to go with zero negative side effects. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Addikted To Boost just ordered john i hope this thing works. I will take out my bnoon bolt and give this a try. does it go in the upper pcv hose coming off of the valve cover or the one that you have to access from underneath?

You will see when you get the directions for the part where it goes, it does go in a hose but not the one you would think.

Originally Posted by aragorn764 Paid, hope this works!

Thank you.

Originally Posted by aaronc7 john, Ill give you a call when I get mine in.... and we can discuss whatever it is you wanted to regarding the knock, more than happy to help

Sounds good, we need some people that can induce knock so we can verify that this is fixing the part throttle knock issues.

Originally Posted by steven88 where does this exactly install? can we see a pic? i am not smoking at the moment...running full catless exhaust....however I am still interested in purchasing this if this will benefit my car in the long run....and if it will help smooth en out any kind of unwanted knock retard

There will be pictures posted up Tuesday as to where this part goes.

Originally Posted by austin102085 i got smoke so ill try anything..... paid

This should fix your smoking issues.

Originally Posted by kgb I ordered and will but stock boone bolt back in. But I will also lower my idle a bit too. Assuming 1 month from now this fix is THE fix, what oil weight is the best to use and more specifically, for a Tampa resident? I have amsoil 10w-30 in now. I ask the question because people were changing their oil weights to combat the smoking issue although the change may not have been optimal.

I would run what the FSM says to run. The oil weights was just a bandaid to try and fix the problem, our fix is correcting the system faults.

Originally Posted by jmhinkle HAHAHA. I bought one. I'd love to see anything stop my chimney from smoking. Money Back guarantee FTW.

Thanks, keep me posted on the part install and if it fixes the chimney.

Originally Posted by 11cruzito11 PTPerformance, How long will this GroupBuy last for the Price of $25? Also, I saw that there is money back guarantee, is it 100% refunded back? Thanks,

Yes, 100% refund if the smoking doesn't stop.

Originally Posted by stealthspeed6 well we will all find out when we get them so then what will he do?

I will be posting pictures on Tuesday where the part goes. We have an appointment on Monday with the patent attorney to get the papers started. That is how we are going to protect this idea.

Originally Posted by nighthawk358 ptp is it $25 shipped?

Yes it is.

Originally Posted by Speedn3 funds sent.... Order Number: 4101 small price to pay for your time on the r&d john. thanks

Thanks, that was the idea. Charge something that was fair but still allowed me to recoup the R&D time. Several people said to sell if for $99 and others said $50, I said get this out there for the masses and rely on the fact that people will start talking about it across the internet that the smoking turbo, part throttle knock (still testing) and possible better motor life are all attainable with a $25 part. We determined that 4000 units/sales would be market saturation and if the part works 1/2 as good as we have seen, that should be easy.

Originally Posted by Erich Or just plain common decency.

We will see, never hurts to have a back up plan (pat pend). I would suspect that Mazda might catch wind of this as well and we might be in talks with them before to long, but that might be a stretch of the possibilities. Only time will tell.

[11cruzito11]

When does the group buy for $25 end?

[GoSpeed3Go]

just sent payment. thanks.

[Erich]

To update on knock. I was able to induce knock this morning going from cold. However, just hitting operating temperature from cold, I can usually induce knock at will (like 99% of the time) over and over. This morning, I was only able to get knock twice, slightly lower in the RPM range and just before operating temperature was achieved. Once the car was up to temperature, just like last night, I could no longer induce knock at all no matter how hard I tried.

This will obviously require a bunch more testing to determine if this does in fact help to reduce part throttle knock. I will be going out on random drives a bunch this week when I start from a cold car. Will keep this thread updated with my results. I will also pull the part out at some point and see if I can induce knock again with it out (after driving with it in and not being able to induce knock.)

[superskaterxes]

ordered, cant wait to try this!!!!!!!

[hnda etr]

Just paid for pcv fix... Also purchased your HPFP!

[Redsand426]

just ordered. going to put my test pipe back on!

[ptperformance]

Originally Posted by 11cruzito11 When does the group buy for $25 end?

It will end after we have sold 50 units.

Originally Posted by GoSpeed3Go just sent payment. thanks.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by Erich To update on knock. I was able to induce knock this morning going from cold. However, just hitting operating temperature from cold, I can usually induce knock at will (like 99% of the time) over and over. This morning, I was only able to get knock twice, slightly lower in the RPM range and just before operating temperature was achieved. Once the car was up to temperature, just like last night, I could no longer induce knock at all no matter how hard I tried. This will obviously require a bunch more testing to determine if this does in fact help to reduce part throttle knock. I will be going out on random drives a bunch this week when I start from a cold car. Will keep this thread updated with my results. I will also pull the part out at some point and see if I can induce knock again with it out (after driving with it in and not being able to induce knock.)

Erich, thanks for all the help and testing data. I appreciate it and I am sure that all the others here on the forums appreciate it as well. I will have one other local that is going to start monitoring the knock condition as well. I will also be starting a thread as customers start to get there oil burning fix to report back on any and all knock issues.

Originally Posted by superskaterxes ordered, cant wait to try this!!!!!!!

Thank you!

Originally Posted by hnda etr Just paid for pcv fix... Also purchased your HPFP!

Thanks, all should be shipping out Tuesday.

Originally Posted by Redsand426 just ordered. going to put my test pipe back on!

Let us know how it works for you after you get the test pipe on. Thanks for the order.

[black-speed3-gt]

count me in plz thx

[NJSPEED3]

Just purchased you part! i have tried every option possible and i still smoke! i even ordered a pg rerworked k04 just finally came in this saturday. But now im thinking if i should wait and test this part before i install the turbo. I kinda wish i had ordered your sst insteed but it to late now

[Realgib3]

really really really wish I would have picked this up before I blew up today

[11cruzito11]

John,

My order has been paid and submitted. Can wait to try this fix!

[nighthawk358]

ptp..when i went to your site it said that the total price would be $35 because of shipping to PR.. is there an extra shipping cost of $10 in the purchase if i buy it right now in the GB?

[tagkat]

Just ordered. No DP but hope that this will solve the PT knock. Plan on getting one in the future so maybe this will prevent problems.

[JmkC]

payment sent.

[kgb]

Originally Posted by Realgib3 really really really wish I would have picked this up before I blew up today

Como what? What happened? Can you give us details on what happened just before you blew like was the clutch vibrating, did you hear anything funny, etc...were you datalogging by any chance?

If you would like to share your story, can you start a new thread about it?


Sorry to hear

[essejkcamraw]

im smoking within a couple minutes of startup so, PAYMENT SENT!

[evidence]

Originally Posted by kgb Como what? What happened? Can you give us details on what happened just before you blew like was the clutch vibrating, did you hear anything funny, etc...were you datalogging by any chance? If you would like to share your story, can you start a new thread about it? Sorry to hear

I checked out his last posts and found he commented in his own thread below, also asked him to make a new post a while ago, I guess we can use this one to prod him for now though so we don't clutter ptp's:

http://www.mazdaspeedforum.org/forum/foru...ean-w-ffs.html

[Cosmic3MPS]

Hi John,

I would like to try this. Can you ship to Australia? There is now option for this on your website.

Cheers