# Running off external wastegate spring.

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/running-off-external-wastegate-spring/196071
**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [March 12, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/running-off-external-wastegate-spring/196071 "2008-03-12T04:43:32Z")
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### Author: ![whitey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/whitey/32/5911_2.png) [@whitey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/whitey)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/running-off-external-wastegate-spring/196071/9 "2008-03-12T13:57:38Z")

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> [@CATURDAY](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caturday/17848/231):
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> That should be with a vacuum side on the inside of the gate to help push it open…

I am not exactly following what you are saying here. But I do have a vacuum line going from my hot pipe to the side port on the wastegate.

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