Blew A Hose...

[Brad850]

Just installed my Fmic. The only hose I didn't replace with silicone so far is the one connecting to the turbo (its on its way).

But anyway I blew the hose off today and I heard a really high pitch noise like the turbo spooled up insanely fast. I pulled over and shut the car off as quick as i could.

I opened the hood and a very small amount of smoke was rising out from under the turbo heat shield and it stopped after a minute or two. What are the chances

I f'ed up my turbo? Should everything be ok?... or do I just have to wait and see how it runs when I get the new hose.

[Oreo931]

You're fine. Just install the new hose and you should be good to go.

[thewhiteguy1]

if you blew an intercooler hose off the car would simply die....not following your noises.

turbo is probably not bad.

[WayAway]

Ive had a long history of blowing my hose off my turbo. Your fine. That sound your hearing is your turbo spooling into the atmosphere for a spit second. Also you might o had oil in our intercooler hoses and it probly dripped on your heat shield when it blew off. My advice is get a 2" tclamp for the turbo and enjoi. Maybe even a new coupler. I went through this for months with this randomly happening after my fmic install.

[850-teefemma]

Just changed all turbo hoses to silicon ones from fcpgroton (tightass i know).

My originals (from -95) where still ok, all sloppy as but one; the T-piece before the inlet manifold that had a 20mm crack!

the silicon ones are a pain to install. So tight its not funny…

I had to leave the hoses downstream from the turbo for next weekend.

Now when all the power is back, I think I blow the spark plugs; cant rev over 3000rpm.