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Please Help Diagnosing, Possible Engine Failure!

BaysideBlue

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I think my engine is f**ked! While driving home last night, heared a thump noise from the engine bay when I gave it a little gas in first gear. would've been less than 5000rpm. Few seconds later felt loss of power, accelerate pedal not responding. So I pulled over, shut the engine and started it again. Engine starts fine but revs not idling stable, up and down from 100-900rpm. Tried to drive a few metres down the road the car started choking, rocking back and forth like a bad clutch engagement. Felt like the car couldn't go faster than 10km/h and will eventually stall. Good thing I was close to home by then so I parked the car on the spot only a block away from my house.

Car was warmed up when it happened, had been driving for at least 15mins. I don't think its turbo failure as I have an aftermarket trust turbo.

What do you guys think went wrong? I never had a engine failure before so I have no idea what was the problem.

Appreciated.

Krishy Grand Master

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well what mods have you done to the car apart from the trust turbo....it could possibly be a intercooler hose coming off but it wnt sound like that....more like psssssssst....coz that happens a lot to my r33 damn it...take it to a import specialist and that would be a safe bet

bubba Grand Master

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Whenever one of my silicon joiners pops off it sounds like a dull WHUMP followed by a bit of pssst. Sounds works that it actually is. Then drives like a pig depending how big a gap has opened up and as soon as you start to make positive pressure, wants to stall.

+1 for cooler piping.

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LOL couldn't find that small child by the time I got back to my car in the morning so it must be intercooler piping I thought. And it was! The pipe popped out from the silicon hose just before the throttle body. Don't understand why it happend but it wasn't as serious as I thought so Im happy.

Thanks heaps fellows. You guys rock :D

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