More noise less power

[dave406]

HI All

Today i noticed i had lost a lot of power and when i put my foot doown nothing really happens except the turbo noise is really loud like a airhose type noise.

Is this the turbo gone or a pipe come off? where is the turbo on these things?

[benczuk]

Had that happen to me once, going up a large hill on the A30. Only just made it to the top. Turned out the inter cooler pipe had just worked its way off. Have you opened the bonnet ?

[dave406]

I have but was late to work and it was raining so not had a real chance. Whats the things to chek for with these

[benczuk]

The inter cooler pipes are pretty obvious. Look under the bonnet with it running and rev it to see where the whistle is coming from?

[dave406]

where is the turbo and any Vac piped to look at

[benczuk]

The Turbo is round the back of the engine, the Vac system is mostly mounted to the bulkhead to the right of the engine

[dave406]

Ok lookked at the intercooler pipes and cant see any thing. What vacuum pipes do i need to check

[dave406]

So Last night ended like this



No power tons of smoke and sounded like a lorry, however i have found the problem



Bottom intercooler pipe had split

[dirtydirtydiesel]

Ahh well all well that end's well at least you've found the problem & it's a cheep 'ish' fix
We like them round ere DDD.

[dave406]

Yeah gonna call local robbery and day see how much but I guess will be scrap yard visit on Saturday

[dirtydirtydiesel]

There's plenty in the local scrapers, that's the joy of these car's

[dave406]

So my local stealer wants £70 for the pipe

[dave406]

Car repaired (I Hope!) but what a pain. Visited 3 yards all of them had the right car but wrong engine or the pipes I needed had gone! So a bit of searching and a lot of bonnet lifting :') we found some candidate parts from a newer car and some driveway manufacturing and we have an 'uprated' part. Feels like I have gained power and MPG!

[Captain Jack]

Yeah a common issue on these. Mine split caning it down a dual carriageway 10 miles away from home. Was still driveable but verrry smoky and very slow.

Puggy had his go on our car meet in hilly Wales!

[dave406]

That would explain all the missing pipes in yards!