yeah one of the things I did first to eliminate that. the spring is for 5.66psi and all I got was 4.4 psi.

I now have a new problem......

you know the breather filter you can put on the valve cover instead of keeping the tube that runs from the valve cover to the intake????

well I have exhaust coming out of that.

I left for work this morning and after the engine got to operating temp I stepped on it and............4.4psi. so I slowed down and decided to try one more time............4.4psi just long enough for me to look at the gauge, then all of a sudden it spiked to 9.8psi and the tires started to hop ( wheel hop) I was already doing like 40mph. so I slowed down and pulled my head out of the back of the seat. and the car all of a sudden wouldn't idle, and I had smoke from under the hood.

all gauges were in the good, no high temps, pressures, etc. the smell of the smoke wasn't sweet so no coolant leak. if I played with the throttle it was fine so I cam home and opened the hood.

I had what smelled like exhaust and could see white smoke coming from the breather. and the car would idle but then the idle would go way down, then back to like 800rpms.

also the breather was soaked in oil.

so tomorrow I am going to run a compression test to see which cylinder has low compression. I don't have any knocking or odd noises, just smoke and erratic idle.

I am thinking that this may be why I didn't see the full potential of the boost, the exhaust and pressured air for at least one cyl. was going into the crank case, so less exhaust flow out means less to spin the turbine.

if anyone can shed some light as to whether I am on the right track please do.