Well as many of you know, I've been running a S300 from HTT for awhile, the one they call their 'Sled Puller 66'. With their 14cm wastegated housing. Since day one, I never hooked the wastegate line up. I just removed the line from the charger and inserted a pipe plug in the compressor housing, in place of the boost elbow. Well actually if I remember right, I may have run the wastegate for a few passes and seems it was set around 34psi. Once disabled I seen around 40psi, eventually up to 50psi. I figured if I kept the boost below 50psi, why hook the wastegate up? My question is, which may be stupid, is there any horsepower I am losing by not allowing the charger/wastegate to dump off the extra boost/drive pressure?
I figured I'm not losing HP, only allowing high drive pressures at higher boost. Also I'm probly just out of the chargers efficiency range around 50psi, or maybe not. Would it be safe to say I would be making the same HP at 35psi of boost as at 50psi?