🔧 BUILD Mook's 2016 E85, Hybrid Turbo, Golf R
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Sell and get back into a cobra, do the right thing.
It'll make SOME boost but nothing much beyond like 10psi. I can at least hear the DV now, so that may have actually been on its way out. But ZERO change from when the car didn't even have a working wastegate.......soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo kind wondering if the turbo is toast....but there is no smoke, no codes, nothing that would indicate wtf could have gone wrong.
I think the wastegate voltage is adjusted wrong, despite being told it was correct, so I mean MAYBE that is causing issues but doubt it, especially since its acting the same it did when the wastegate wasnt even hooked up.
I think the wastegate voltage is adjusted wrong, despite being told it was correct, so I mean MAYBE that is causing issues but doubt it, especially since its acting the same it did when the wastegate wasnt even hooked up.
These a lot of posts so I was having a hard time putting together a timeline of events but saw the pipe came off the intercooler. Not sure if that was before or after you noticed the wastegate arm was off.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a torn coupler or a cracked hard pipe with these symptoms and a supposed over boost from the wastegate arm coming off.
A pressure test of the cold side would be the best route to diagnose that but no idea how you’d go about doing that.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a torn coupler or a cracked hard pipe with these symptoms and a supposed over boost from the wastegate arm coming off.
A pressure test of the cold side would be the best route to diagnose that but no idea how you’d go about doing that.
Ohhhhh I forgot you had a cat. If that’s easy enough to check that’s worth checking. Wouldn’t hurt to pop off the v-band at the turbo and check the turbine wheel as well, but if you’re getting 10psi I imagine it’s still there lol.
Car spun super bad in -10 temps, POP. IC pipe popped off and at that same time, wg arm must have come off. Since then, fixed pipe. Fixed wg with a brand new wg last week (I think the voltage is wrong but car drives identical to before), replaced DV earlier today. Unchanged.
So maybe there is a crack someplace. Gonna have to remove everything.
I would bet that was:
- Wastegate arm came off
- Car made lots of power
- Spun like crazy
- Pop goes the weasel (pipe)
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