The DV is an awesome piece of kit & does help. When shopping for a DV, their are a couple of things to bare in mind. Firstly, there are three types of BOV.
1) Normal DV
2) Sequential DV
3) Recirculating DV.
Normal DV is the one cheapest & will just blow excess boost. This is the one that causes the car to burn rich when idling & also interferes with the idle abit.
The sequential BOV is the one that you want. It works on equating the pressures from the Intake, before & after the throttle body. Therefore it remains closed at idle but dumps when the pressure on the other side of the throttle body is much higher then the internal one.
The recirculating one I thing is the best for performance but it doesn't have the awesome noise, you get from a sequential BOV.
You must bare in mind that all air that enters & passes the AFM, is calculated & the car knows exactley how to mix the AIR/Fuel. When you dump the air into the atmosphere, the car doesn't know this, therefore everythime you change gears & dump the air, for that split second the car burns rich. The recirculating BOV just pumps the air back into the system, therefore it is better. The s14 comes with a recirculating BOV.
To summarize, this is it. A BOV lets out the extra pressure from the turbo that is built up everytime you take your foot off the loud pedal. Remember that there is two side to the manifold. Before throttle body & after throttle body. Everytime you close the throttle body, there is extra pressure built up before it & a vacumm after it. That is why when you connect a DV, a little pipe goes from the top onto the intake where the vacumm is. So, everytime the accelerator is closed its the extra pressure & the vacumm that opens the DV. That is why it is so easy to disconnect them. Just pull out the vacumm line & the car is back to normal.
I hope this helps. If you are even more confused, then my work here is done. So lok for a sequential or recirculating DV!! P.S. a recirculating DV is also sequential.....HA...even more confused!!!
