# Boost leak **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [January 7, 2009, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898 "2009-01-07T09:37:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brent\_strong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brent_strong/32/7203_2.png) [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/1 "2009-01-07T09:37:54Z")
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](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). ---
**Author:** ![neonglh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neonglh/32/4951_2.png) [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/2 "2009-01-07T09:55:56Z")
Its not obvious in the picture what we are looking at. Is that a gab between the intake manifold and the … diesel injector? ---
**Author:** ![brent\_strong](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/brent_strong/32/7203_2.png) [@brent\_strong](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brent_strong)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 9:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/3 "2009-01-07T09:56:58Z")
Huge gap between the EGR and the intake manifold (all are pressurized parts of the intake system). It was no longer connected at all. ---
**Author:** ![juicedz4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/juicedz4/32/5051_2.png) [@juicedz4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/juicedz4)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/4 "2009-01-07T10:00:10Z")
Ya, thatll do it. You prob were in limp, just no CEL… yet. ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/5 "2009-01-07T10:06:59Z")
OMG! YOU ACCIDENTLY THE WHOLE THING? ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/6 "2009-01-07T10:27:50Z")
what car / truck is that? ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/7 "2009-01-07T10:30:12Z")
Jetta TDI ---
**Author:** ![neonglh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/neonglh/32/4951_2.png) [@neonglh](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/neonglh)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/8 "2009-01-07T13:10:57Z")
> [@theblue](#): > > what car / truck is that? A faggot-mobile. ---
**Author:** ![Studderin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/studderin/32/7197_2.png) [@Studderin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Studderin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/9 "2009-01-10T15:51:42Z")
time for LS1 swap ---
**Author:** ![deebo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/deebo/32/5218_2.png) [@deebo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/deebo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/boost-leak/60898/10 "2009-01-10T15:54:41Z")
only 40mpg. HOW TERRIBLE THIS WAS! (are these normally like 48mpg? ;))