Any Ideas?

[7yphon]

Well I was on my way home tonight and as I pulled out of a street, I gave it a bit of throttle and as i was tuning something went Bang. I mean it was a big pop noise like when a cooler hose comes off or something, So the car wasnt running right,"Just like if a cooler house came off" so i pulled over and had a quick look. anyway its dark so I cant really see much. But when I got the car home "After a lot of cursing" I had another look under the bonnit there seem to be a splatter of oil on the bonnet but not anywhere you would think off it seems to have come out of the oil dipper stick.

I did also see that the car was not boosting and there was some sort of surge noise comming from the engine.

Im thinking it is the turbo, but I cannot conferm for sure. Any Ideas of insite til then?

[shmiddy]

if ya got the stock internal gate, check the hose didnt pop of it, happened to me and the symptoms sound the same..

[CruiseLiner]

if ya dipstick blows out its ya rings not sealing and creating pressure in the sump forcing the oil out of the dipstick hole. not cheap to sort out unfortunately

may not be the problem but a possibility if the dipstick is blowing out.

[Craved]

yeah dipstick blowing out doesn't sound nice mate .. do a compression test asap ..

not looking too good though

[7yphon]

Yer thats what me and mates where thinking last night :'( but we cant think why it would happen like that, EG. I would have thought I would have to be pushing the car really really hard for it to happen.

Yer going to see what's open today if not try and grab something tomorrow

[7yphon]

Well I thought I would update those who where reading and helping,

I had a look over the car this morn and too my surprise it was the cooler piping, Now I know why the car wasnt running too great over the last few days as the rubber on the pipe was split.

But there is still the concern about the oil I think ill still get a compresion check done and see what im looking at and how bad the leak is.

Anyway cheers guys, Looks like the car will run for just a little while longer

The reason it went bang was the house finally giving up the oil in the lines didnt help so it sliped off :s sheesh I didnt really know a turbo would spool that much psi at low rev's I guess it gives me a insite as too how strong 1 or 2 psi really is.

[Craved]

good news about the cooler piping..

but yeah strange that the oil dipstick flew out ...