Boost leak

NYSpeed Automotive
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So, I was driving home from work last night and noticed that all of my 90 horses of power were seeming a little sluggish. It got worse as I got closer to home…to the point where I’d need a good dose of throttle in 3rd to get up a small hill.

So, I pop the hood in the rain and start looking, and find this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3373/3177514858_5572059437.jpg

:fry:

I’m amazed that I didn’t get any CELs or go into limp mode…

Looks like the bolts backed out sometime between 12-20 when I had my timing belt done and today…

Definitely enjoying my new found power on the drive to work today. I wonder if this wasn’t a good part of why my mileage was only 40mpg last tank (in addition to a dragging front caliper and a humming rear wheel bearing that I’m replacing this weekend).

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Its not obvious in the picture what we are looking at. Is that a gab between the intake manifold and the … diesel injector?

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Huge gap between the EGR and the intake manifold (all are pressurized parts of the intake system). It was no longer connected at all.

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Ya, thatll do it.

You prob were in limp, just no CEL… yet.

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OMG! YOU ACCIDENTLY THE WHOLE THING?

6

what car / truck is that?

7

Jetta TDI

8

A faggot-mobile.

9

time for LS1 swap

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only 40mpg. HOW TERRIBLE THIS WAS! (are these normally like 48mpg? ;))