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      02-17-2020, 12:10 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Conissah View Post
My old roomate had Gen1 MS3. Always thought it was slow as hell, and he often complained of a "duck" sound under the hood. I took a look one day and saw that a hoseclamp for the top mount was missing, which was a huge boost leak. Fixed that, and it actually impressed me. Was no longer a slow manual minivan, and it ACTUALLY made turbski noises.

Pretty certain this is what killed his turbo too, since the wastegate was never opening, the turbo was being worked way too hard to hit the target psi, and with that massive boost leak, it never happened. Thing smokes like a freight train.
Lol funny. The "smoking turbo" issue was actually a known problem and there was a TSB for it.
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