Vic Wasteland Thread - 15.0

[emts]

How many Cigarettes is a house in richmond these days...gotta be getting close to a carton judging by the prices I last saw.

[Mohsen]

im getting peer pressured into good life decisions

[emts]

im getting peer pressured into good life decisions

Find new friends....

[Mohsen]

lmao everyones getting married and becoming responsible.
help/

[emts]

move to the country

All married mid 30's///

[JAS-25T]

Did anyone jump on XTV today?

[Birds]

Nup

[dezz]

Did anyone jump on XTV today?

Healthy increase

[Leroy Peterson]

Tokyo Tribes on SBS now, pretty awesome.

[Kinkstaah]

Random car broken wtf problem.

Turbo howls when in vacuum (between -10mmhg and 0) and then stops at about 6psi and then sounds normal.

No, it is not the exhaust drowning it out.

How can this be a thing.

All I have done is tighten the v-band that is connected to the external gate (which is off the housing), but the problem happens at a point where the gate isn't even in play.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

by tightening the v band you have stopped the fail getting out of your engine

[Kinkstaah]

I tightened it and heard a mild howl.... and now it's become a massive howl.

Perhaps the fail is backing up now.

[Leroy Peterson]

If it was a howl it would be intake?? Or is it 100% exhaust? Maybe vband gasket/oring is stuffed?

[Kinkstaah]

I don't really know what it is, pretty confident there's no boost leaks (sadly I have become very very very intimate with my charge pipes and clamps and silicon joiners and they are all replaced).

Just sounds like a big WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as its spooling but no sound when actually making boost. The car sounds naturally aspirated from 7psi to 25psi which is really quite weird feeling. Just very much when the turbo is spinning up, but I wouldn't say its surge because you can hear the turbo spinning *down* after you come off throttle and you are around -15/20mmhg, which is just flat out strange.

In b4 turbine blown out of exhaust or compressor wheel in intake valves, but of course both the wheels look perfect and have no play.

[Leroy Peterson]

so you've inspected the exhaust side of the turbo after the noise started?

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

20 year old nissan motor with some bolt-ons only would be making a solid 350rwkw and running like a dream...

jus' sayin'

[Kinkstaah]

so you've inspected the exhaust side of the turbo after the noise started?

Sounded like a manifold leak but not ticking, just a weird... sound. Could actually be an exhaust leak from the actual exhaust because I may have hit the flex join on a few things but you know, check everything.

Fixed hose clamp going to gate from exhaust housing on turbo. You could move the band around previously so clearly it could be better sealed. Removed and new bolt after cutting the original bolt off with a hacksaw because long story.

Howly sound and better feeling engine/spool so assumed fixed.

Just makes a loud sound now. Didn't make any kind of sound before fixing the vband. Maybe always broken. Maybe not.

Dropped dump pipe and intake, had a look, spun wheels around, clearly not making contact and all the fins appear to be intact, etc.

Its more the intermittent nature of it that makes no sense, I've had leaks and manifold to turbo gaskets go etc, and it SOUNDS like that but all of those don't mysteriously stop making sound at 7psi.

I will borrow a gopro and make a video cause everything on the net seems to imply it shouldn't be possible, but hey, not like the limits of reality has ever contained this car's ongoing problems.

[Leroy Peterson]

You should take your car to one of those reality TV ghost hunter shows. Claim it's cursed and await results.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

You should take sell your car to one of those reality TV ghost hunter shows. Claim it's cursed and await results.

[Leroy Peterson]

You should take sell your car to one of those reality TV ghost hunter shows. Claim it's cursed and have some change to take the bus because no one will want to pay all that much for it.