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Turbo leak? cant find it..
Posted: January 25th, 2009, 2:41 am
by hgallegos915
Ok in 1st gear I can hit 5 psi easy, second too, third gear its at 4 psi and 5th gear remains at 4... basically it starts at 5 pi and goes down to 4.
Already inspected intercooler, all the pipes.. vacuum lines... everything and I cant understand.
could it be the turbo is going bad?
bad boost controller? bad wastegate?
Re: Turbo leak? cant find it..
Posted: January 25th, 2009, 9:34 pm
by K8Boosted
Really a hard problem to troubleshoot over a form,,,, Like u did first thing perform a vaccuum test,,
Chances of it being a mechanical part very slim,,, No way is it the turbo thats sorta funny
Some internal wastegates have problems with "bleeding boost pressure" but i imagine your external...
1 psi is very small if the car is perfoming like usual i wouldnt worry.... Could you tell if you were not looking at a guage ?
Re: Turbo leak? cant find it..
Posted: January 31st, 2009, 6:17 pm
by hgallegos915
Thanks for the input, i replaced the intercooler (it was 10 dllrs at a junk yard from a eagle talon turbo) and I replaced the boost gauge line and its all good now..
My clutch slips still at 5 psi lol and at 4 it doesnt. odd.. oh well im boostin again
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Re: Turbo leak? cant find it..
Posted: February 6th, 2009, 2:38 pm
by mx3boyze
We burnt up an ACT Stage 1 clutch in no time on 5 pounds.