Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project

Serj22 said
they sold you the exact same part 3 times and called it different things. Blow Off Valve, Wastegate, and Fuel Pressure regulator.... All have the same thing... just different stuff going through them... There's a cap, spring with diaphragm, and a preload setting bolt, and then a reference port...

I can't say that anything you said here is not true... but the FUNCTIONS of those three parts are so markedly different that it is very misleading (to the uninitiated) to paint them all with the same brush; kind of like saying that a psychiatrist would make a good brain surgeon just because they both had 8 years of medical training... very different subject matter, and a boost-controlling wastegate that is going to limit your engine's forced induction, has nothing in common with the function with a blowoff valve, which will only operate at a closed throttle, or a boost-referenced fuel pressure regulator, which keep the fuel pressure consistent, so as not to overpower your carb's needle and seat assembly when the pump makes more pressure than the carb can handle.

Three totally different purposes, but as you say, the same three mechanisms are used to accomplish their individual functions..

I am aware that you already knew all this, but there may be people reading this generally well-written instructional thread, that may not... They are the ones who may need some additional information.

Then again, maybe I just talk too much.. :oops:.

Wouldn't be the first time... ask anyone who reads this forced induction consistently... I have my flaws...:twisted: