I drove the car this weekend and everything seemed fine. I did a few hard accelerations to show my cousin what the new toy could do but nothing crazy. He did want to drive it and proceeded to chug and stall the car. I told him he was done. Yesterday I took the car out and the engine/exhaust sound seems to sound "less aggressive". The car just seems to sound quieter than normal. I don't have a Durametrics so I can't check to see if there are any error codes. It was cloudy and about to rain yesterday so maybe it is just the weather. I do get .6 bar. It is raining today and when it stopped I took it out but it was hard to really get on it as the streets are all wet...but I got .6 bar still. I may just be loosing my mind but I swear the engine sounds different and doesn't have as harsh of an exhaust note as it has since I got it.

 

look under the car and see if one of your waste gate rods (threaded rod connected
to the turbo/waste gate) is broken. Part of it will hang down loose and car will sound
and drive very peculiar.

MK

 

MY and model of car please? There are so many possibilities, without getting codes we're all just guessing. Get a code reader.

 

Yeah ordering one today
2002 turbo
30,400 miles
completely stock

 

when was your last plugs/coil pack change?

 

Spark plugs changed at 29500

 

what plugs you using? also moisture is not a friend of the coil packs.

 

I had a similar problem with my car, got 0.6 bar but the car didn't sound right and there was a lot of hp missing.

The problem was that one hose to the intake side of the right turbo had jumped off.