Checking out my CC/TC
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Checking out my CC/TC
Greetings,
I just bought it Saturday. I would like to get a good engine check on it. What should I ask the mechanic to do? I'm thinking a compression and leakdown test. Are there any turbo-specific test that be performed?
Also is it possible to hear a turbo going bad? It seems I hearing something like unlubricated bearings when I first start it, then it gets quiet. Is the boost sound different from a bearing sound? It picks up power nicely between 2500-4000 rpm then seems to struggle. Never had a turbo car before so I am learning here.
Thanks for the help!
I just bought it Saturday. I would like to get a good engine check on it. What should I ask the mechanic to do? I'm thinking a compression and leakdown test. Are there any turbo-specific test that be performed?
Also is it possible to hear a turbo going bad? It seems I hearing something like unlubricated bearings when I first start it, then it gets quiet. Is the boost sound different from a bearing sound? It picks up power nicely between 2500-4000 rpm then seems to struggle. Never had a turbo car before so I am learning here.
Thanks for the help!
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Greetings,
I just bought it Saturday. I would like to get a good engine check on it. What should I ask the mechanic to do? I'm thinking a compression and leakdown test. Are there any turbo-specific test that be performed?
Also is it possible to hear a turbo going bad? It seems I hearing something like unlubricated bearings when I first start it, then it gets quiet. Is the boost sound different from a bearing sound? It picks up power nicely between 2500-4000 rpm then seems to struggle. Never had a turbo car before so I am learning here.
Thanks for the help!
I just bought it Saturday. I would like to get a good engine check on it. What should I ask the mechanic to do? I'm thinking a compression and leakdown test. Are there any turbo-specific test that be performed?
Also is it possible to hear a turbo going bad? It seems I hearing something like unlubricated bearings when I first start it, then it gets quiet. Is the boost sound different from a bearing sound? It picks up power nicely between 2500-4000 rpm then seems to struggle. Never had a turbo car before so I am learning here.
Thanks for the help!
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Is it a bearing with no oil sound or is it a massive sucking of air sound. The car has a cat warmup mode that sucks a lot of air and dumps fuel in to warm up cat. When I got my car everyone always commented that it has a bad bearing. I had to educate them. So find out if it's that. Start it up, don't touch the gas and see if it does it for a while, then next cold start, start it up and give it a rev and see if it goes away, if it behaves like I'm explaining, ur most likely hearing ur turbo sucking air for cat warm up .
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Is it a bearing with no oil sound or is it a massive sucking of air sound. The car has a cat warmup mode that sucks a lot of air and dumps fuel in to warm up cat. When I got my car everyone always commented that it has a bad bearing. I had to educate them. So find out if it's that. Start it up, don't touch the gas and see if it does it for a while, then next cold start, start it up and give it a rev and see if it goes away, if it behaves like I'm explaining, ur most likely hearing ur turbo sucking air for cat warm up .
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Yeah it makes people question sometimes the cat warm up is so loud.(k&n included)
And I have to let it finish or it'll be finicky. But it's all for the environment right.
And I have to let it finish or it'll be finicky. But it's all for the environment right.
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Did anyone ever make a "typical Cobalt SS/TC sounds" thread? There are quite a few unique sounds to this car. Most of us went through the freakout phase a number of times when buying our cars.
Some I can think of:
evap purge "monkey" banging on things in the trunk at stoplights
gear shifts clunking
low gear trans whining
HPFP ticking
Some I can think of:
evap purge "monkey" banging on things in the trunk at stoplights
gear shifts clunking
low gear trans whining
HPFP ticking
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Did anyone ever make a "typical Cobalt SS/TC sounds" thread? There are quite a few unique sounds to this car. Most of us went through the freakout phase a number of times when buying our cars. Some I can think of: evap purge "monkey" banging on things in the trunk at stoplights gear shifts clunking low gear trans whining HPFP ticking
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