DannoSupra Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Driving up a hill, gently accelerating, between 2-3k rpm, boosting like 0.2-0.3. i get like a 'booming' noise, then as i reach the top of the hill and let off, turbo's stop their whistle and then a 'wind down boom' Is the DEATH sound on UK Tubby's?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignum Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 Can you do a sound clip, dont sound good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannoSupra Posted February 28, 2008 Author Share Posted February 28, 2008 Its not loud at all... u can bearly hear it... dount it you will hear it with a vid/sound clip... i was just worried in case it was a start to something big!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpigcity Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 mine blew 2 weeks ago, doing 70 and gentley accelerating. its bo**ocks when they say you get a cloud of smoke in the mirror and a big bang. i never heard anything. people where telling me to check for shards in the back box, and all things like that. fact was i had the first cat on and nothing gets past the cat anyway. check all your pipes atleast 100 times. if they are ok it's the grim reaper that has chopped up your turbos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 Are they still making boost? If not it could be just an IC hose that has blown off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannoSupra Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Are they still making boost? If not it could be just an IC hose that has blown off. It wont run with IC pipe off... UK MAF! I'll have a good look this weekend, need to put the 1st turbo pipe back on the car anyway, i got sent the wrong one back. Might be something to do with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris burford Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 I believe the uk spec turbos very rarely fail catastrophically i,e lots of little pieces if they are looked after properly due to them being steel bladed and not ceramic like the jspec ones mine had done 145k without failing and no blue smoke running 1.2 bar for the last 50k miles. All i did was allow them to warm up cool down properly and oil change every 5k Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignum Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Thats the key, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt k Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 It wont run with IC pipe off... UK MAF! I'll have a good look this weekend, need to put the 1st turbo pipe back on the car anyway, i got sent the wrong one back. Might be something to do with that It will.....just lumpy as F**k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannoSupra Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Well yeah hehe, its happend before! Dunno, it doesn't happen all the time, it might be just me, AND it's only done it since puttin Ind Kit on! Just too add, ive been changing oil and filter every 4-5k/6months... And letting her warm up before setting off, and a cooldown period! See how it goes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanchan Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 It will.....just lumpy as F**k. Mine barely ran when I blew an IC hose off. If left to idle it stalled, and wouldn't get over about 10mph (happened on the M-way too ) with foot on the floor. Completely undriveable until the AA man turned up with his tool kit, as I had none on me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannoSupra Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Mine barely ran when I blew an IC hose off. If left to idle it stalled, and wouldn't get over about 10mph (happened on the M-way too ) with foot on the floor. Completely undriveable until the AA man turned up with his tool kit, as I had none on me hahahaha SNAP!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanchan Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 hahahaha SNAP!!!! As this is my first turbo'd car, I had no idea what an IC hose blowing sounded/felt like. Had a rather large brown trouser few seconds - stuck behind a car doing about 60 in the outside lane, waited for him to pull over then booted it. Car kicked down, turbos spooled up, started to pull away nicely when BANG:Pling: followed by a loss of power, revs wildly going from about 1500 to 3000 on their own..... I was just passing the 300 yds marker sign of an exit, so I dived off sharpish into Sainsburys car park, which is where I figured it wouldn't idle or re-accelerate once I'd slowed down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt k Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 It happened to me at about 120 on the motorway with the T04R running 1.2 bar, It was an almighty bang and i thought i had blown the engine up! I pulled into the lay-by and popped the bonnet, luckily it was the pipe from the turbo to the wing so i noticed it straight away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juanchan Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 It happened to me at about 120 on the motorway with the T04R running 1.2 bar, It was an almighty bang and i thought i had blown the engine up! I pulled into the lay-by and popped the bonnet, luckily it was the pipe from the turbo to the wing so i noticed it straight away. Mine was just before the inlet manifold, down about 4 pipes (it felt like there were hundreds for some reason!), and wasn't obvious at all. Had to go digging to find where it was. And the bang it makes is ridiculous! I seriously thought something major/expensive had just happened! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannoSupra Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 t'was a Vac pipe split! Phew Thought it wudnt be anything serious... everything is working as it should, just the weird noise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignum Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I bet your just a little bit relieved, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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