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Old Oct 27, 2002 | 11:16 PM
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how is it possible to hear boost leak from inside?

title says it all...i'm pretty sure i have a leak somewhere, probably the couplers. whenever i accelerate 3k+ rpm i hear this whoosing, hissing air noise from the passenger side of the dash, almost as if it were coming out of the air vents. i'm wondering how the leak from the front of the engine can be hear inside the car? are the air vents connected someway to echo such leaks?

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Old Oct 27, 2002 | 11:29 PM
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stick your head underneath the hood and pull the throttle cable and rev it to about 7K and you tell me how loud it is under the hood... It's not to hard to hear a good sized leak from inside the car.....

btw: i love your avatar, almost makes me wanna move back to california....
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Old Oct 27, 2002 | 11:41 PM
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hmm...never thought of it that way, just figured an air leak wouldn't make that much noise...yup, bay area is a great place to live, except for the internet bubble, the housing prices, the traffic, the giants, the a's, the golden state warriors
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Old Oct 27, 2002 | 11:44 PM
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better than livin out in the middle of a cornfield!

You probably have a leak by your y pipe... the coupler that attaches that an the crossover pipe
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Old Oct 27, 2002 | 11:48 PM
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actually if you still have a job the bay area is better nowadays than before, but i digress...thanks for the help, yea, i'm getting silicon couplers and the efini y pipe.
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Old Oct 28, 2002 | 10:13 AM
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Originally posted by ttb
actually if you still have a job the bay area is better nowadays than before, but i digress...thanks for the help, yea, i'm getting silicon couplers and the efini y pipe.
have not caught you in a while..How is your mod list going? I plan on getting my car dyno tuned soon.
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