Close shave today/sounds you do not want to here...
 

PLINK!

That is the sound I heard as I pulled away from a stoplight today to head onto the freeway. Where I normally would run the car through the gears (1-3, maybe 4th) I instead backed off. I was just fully engaging first gear from a dead stop as I hear this light but noticible PLINK! sound from under my hood.

So I gingerly step on the gas and watch for smoke, watch oil pressure, watch temp, watch wideband, and watch boost gauge...wait, boost gauge is only reading 11psi! No! My foot is halfway to the floor and I'm at 4000 rpms! Shift to third...step on gas, repeat gauge scanning...9psi...no smoke, no more weird noises, but...no boost! Do it again, 5psi...3psi......I'm on the freeway, no going back for another few miles. I'm very ginger on the car, no smoke, no overheating, oil pressure is fine but...no boost when I step on it a bit. I'm perplexed, praying a hose popped off or something.

Yea, so I get home, pop the hood, and find something interresting. I got this POS 3" intake pipe with my FMIC kit for my 1g, and pulled it over to my 1g when I got it. The pipe is just mild steel, it looks like crap, and it has a craptastic air filter on the end of it which broke in half about a year ago...it has been one of my few conscessions on this car in which I broke out the zip ties. I meant to replace it, but just never did.

http://www.scheides.com/albums/2g/DS..._001.sized.jpg

As I pull it off to inspect the turbo, I hear some rattling noises...well, well well, look what I found. My heart sinks...this small piece of metal on the inside of the filter broke free and fell into the inlet of the turbo...

http://www.scheides.com/albums/2g/DS..._001.sized.jpg
http://www.scheides.com/albums/2g/DS..._001.sized.jpg

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But wait! I am filled with joy as I see that the little metal disk-of-doom was too big to fit through the silicon reducer!
http://www.scheides.com/albums/2g/DS..._001.sized.jpg

My 20g compressor is fine! WOOT!
http://www.scheides.com/albums/2g/DS..._001.sized.jpg

So...this POS is going in the trash! Time for something more of the 4" diameter variety...

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WoW, I think that was a sign to upgrade :D We've all read the stories about this coming out the other way, time to buy a lottery ticket :D

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That was your karma coming back to you for making that lady drop her drink! lol

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hehe close shave. Sorry, but i thought you got in a fight with the razor and lost. lol

-A. Swift

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Yup, I ordered up Forced Performance's 4" intake that I've been lusting over for a while now:

http://linux.forcedperformance.net/m...ntake_full.jpg
hope it fits! :)

This week has been an absolute nightmare for me, and this would have definitly been a major crushing blow to my karma levels et all. I left work yesterday with 48 hours on the clock for the week, only to get paged 45 minutes later & spend another 1.5 hours on the phone with a customer. I just can't believe how well it slid into that inlet, but yet did not make it all the way to the compressor wheel. WOOT!

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It is a good thing you didn't have a big turbo on there or you would have been in trouble!

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Wait a second...is that the intake we made fit on the LaZer with our mad fabbing [hacking] skillz?!?!

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Lmao, way to revive an almost 2 and a half y.o. thread!

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I was about to say, NOT AGAIN! lol. This thread was referenced in the latest air filter wars thread.

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IT IS! I think it was part of the $100 project thread.....I sold it to you for like $5 :D

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A lunch at CRB actually!