turbo whine
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Given the tiny-ness of our turbo, under boost it will make a high-pitched whine. Almost like that ringing in your ears kind of thing...hard to describe it accurately. If you roll up the windows, you'll heard more of the "whoosh" through the intake rather than the turbo itself.
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Yes, you will also hear it spinning during warm up...car is running very rich and the exhaust is enough to turn it a bit. Totally different than the noise at full boost, though. Would almost seem that the car at cold idle opens the wastegate enough so that the turbo warms up. No idea if this is the case, though.
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"Yeah, my friend felt the same way, but it turned out he had cancer and died three days after having similar symptoms to what you're describing..."
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In all seriousness though, get a recording of it. A turbo will make some noise but if it's really loud that's not normal.
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ITS OK!!! Thats the NEON SRT4. No worries here.
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try to understand what the word whine means. A turbo should never make a loud whining noise. It's not the air compressing that makes the noises. It's the way the air is being compressed. Turbochargers work extremely different than a positive displacement supercharger.