Re: Help! Turbo Troubles? (Second post)

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.pl>]

At 16:31 6.08.98 EDT, MSV96@aol.com wrote:

>As the subject line implies, I fear that my turbo is maybe not healthy.
Here's
>the deal...for the past couple days when not quite fully warmed up there is a
>strange noise when on boost. (No, I don't flog my car cold...but there are
>times that after things are most of the way warmed up that one must get out
>into traffic.) The car is running a 1.8 bar wg spring and qlcc eprom. No
>perceptable loss in performance or (dash displayed) boost pressure at all.

Have you considered another possibility - a small leak in the intake path
after the turbo which opens under boost allowing air to escape, hence
producing the noise you describe?

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)