Car Whistles - Boost leak?

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29-05-2011, 05:12 PM
Nepharius

Car Whistles - Boost leak?

My car has just started to make a whistling noise while on moderate to high boost. I had a look this weekend at both sides of the intercooler and both seem to be clamped down pretty well.

Only thing I have recently changed is installed a new 2XS BPV. I changed the spring on that from blue to yellow and this had no obvious effect. I did notice inside one of the rubber rings was not properly seated and fixed that up.
I also got some extra tubing to connect the T piece to the boost sensor part (no idea of proper name for this) on the BPV because I was worried I wasn't clamping on properly.

To describe the noise its a high pitch noise which at first sounded a bit like a superchargers whine. Got more high pitch as boost increased.

Anyone had any experience of this or suggest places I should look? Only places I can think are that the O ring on the bottom of the BPV isn't seated correctly (was a hard bastard to get into place, had to use a bit of water to get it to stay put and even then lost it for about 10minutes at one point) or that my car is sucking in through the Meth/H20 system, which I believe shouldnt happen and hasn't up until now.
29-05-2011, 05:37 PM
Caffeine Fiend

Sound like the tea kettle noise that Sam (SarcasticOne) was having. Can't remember if that was BOV related though and can't find the thread

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29-05-2011, 07:01 PM
mazda6mps

Had the same noise. the two pipes i clamped further were the turbo to TMIC and the TMIC to the intake - well actually I replaced the clamps with the T-clamps i picked up from total tools for $8 a peice. I also check the clamps that connect to the BOV.
31-05-2011, 12:10 AM
Nepharius

Cheers guys, will give it a good tightening tomorrow see if that improves the situation.
07-06-2011, 10:05 PM
Crusher_13

Turbo whistle anyone?

It should do that. Once I had the TMIC fitted she sounded like a kettle on the boil. Thats the turbo spinning away. Or at least it was on mine, and man it sounded cool.

By any chance did you re-set the ECU when you changed over the BPV?
08-06-2011, 12:17 PM
SarcasticOne

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Originally Posted by Crusher_13

Turbo whistle anyone?

It should do that. Once I had the TMIC fitted she sounded like a kettle on the boil. Thats the turbo spinning away. Or at least it was on mine, and man it sounded cool.

By any chance did you re-set the ECU when you changed over the BPV?

Mine does the same thing :p
Lets me know I'm driving it properly :p
11-06-2011, 11:54 AM
Nepharius

I've re-tightened everything, might make a video/audio recording, I don't remember hearing this happening before. While I took the entire intake and cooler system out I also cleaned out my meth system and the whistle starts at the same time that kicks in. I heard somewhere a high pitch whistle can be exhaust side leak which is worrying, although I do have a new exhaust manifold that does need install... I might get that installed soon and ask them to have a quick look over to see if they can find any obvious leaks.

I reset the ECU (well I pulled the battery out completely) when I fixed up the meth kit.