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Possible Air Leak, Please Help

GunMetalR33

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Hi,

I was driving back from work the other day and my car was running fine. I was giving a a good burst from time to time then started to notice that the power was progressivly decreasing. By the time I got home I could not boost it over 5psi and at the point it runs realy rich...

I know its rich due to the state of the plugs when I pulled them out to do a compression test, which seemed fine as well (all within 10%).

Things I have done to fix it are:

1) re-fitted all intake piping after the Afm and before the throttle body, there were no obvious leaks.

2) replaced the Z32 AFM with a mates and it made no difference.

I was thinking it could be:

1) crank angle sensor?

2) plenum gasket?

3) maybe a pin hole in the cooler, I have checked and cant see anything?

Any suggestions would be great, I am thinking air leak but its very hard to determine where it might be???

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Did you end up sorting this out? I had a very similar problem, and it's turned out to be a plenum gasket for me.

I could actually feel the air rushing out through the giant hole.. I could still get a heap of boost into it though, but it was making a rushing air sound out the side of the plenum when on boost.

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