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Old 05-27-2012, 08:22 AM   #1
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SR20 turbo noise?

Hey guys, looking to get some info on this. Back story is that three weeks ago I broke my FMIC so my car sat since then. Ended up redoing my piping and getting a new FMIC which ended up being smaller than my old one.

Anyways got it running yesterday finally. Initial drive was good, parked it. Decided to go out last night so took it out again and drove for 25ish miles and parked again. When I was driving home I noticed that the turbo was louder than usual. I could hear it 'spool' but it kind of sounds like a leak. I know I have one decent exhaust leak from down pipe to cat back but as far as I know that's it.

Anyways upon some driving my turbo just was a lot louder. It made a noise and I wouldn't say that it's that dentist drill your turbo is going out sound.

Heres a link to the video, don't know how to embed on my phone via tapatalk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM8vX...e_gdata_player

You can hear the turbo spooling up and it sounds much different. Also notice the sound under boost. Is my turbo going out? Or am I hopefully looking at something much smaller like a boost leak or manifold leak somewhere? When I get off of work today I'm going to go pull the intake off and check for shaft play but just wanted some insight on this.

Holds boost just fine, boosts pretty fine in my opinion, just doesn't sound like how it used to.
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