Yesterday I had a boost leak test day here at my house. Did a few installs as well. Pictures taken by my wife
Lol! Yeah its about the same or more whenever I have convoys at my house to go to a meet/picnic. There would have been more (3) Neon SRT-4's and (1) Caliber SRT-4's in that picture but somethings came up and they weren't able to make it.
The neighbors don't mind at all. I think they think its pretty cool. Not one has ever complained. The invasions have been on and off for almost 3 yrs now lol.
So which one had the worse boost leak!? Damn I wish I lived near you. Looks like a good group of people.
They weren't too bad. But here is some of the highlights of the day... The orange one had a hole in the hotside pipe from rubbing on the frame. Its the CX Racing intercooler kit so the aftermarket hotside pipes companies make for our cars wouldn't work as a replacement. The black one in the 2nd pic that lifted in an angle was an adventure. Replacement of a aftermarket hotside pipe that was crushed at the ends and leaking to be replaced with a JMB oval hotside pipe. We had to remove the front bumper, put washers on the intercooler studs to bring the intercooler forward inorder for the pipe to fit without rubbing a hole into the pipe/coupler eventually and be able to get the clamps aligned. Another black one was leaking around the throttlebody gasket, looked like is was soaked in oil as mist of oil was coming out. There was a red one that the red line fitting on the coldside was completely soft and cracked. Which I have here at the house so I replaced it. The green line had a hole from rubbing on the battery tray. We opted to cut that section off and replace with a vac hose with zipties on each end. Mostly all of them leaked from the oil cap, while some leaked from the pcv valve. There are a lot of SRT-4's in the area, majority are a great group of people. A good amout of stock turbo setups, some big turbo setups, while about 8-10 S3 setups. I do installs mainly on the weekends. Sometimes my house location is used to setup convoy to SRT picnics, meets, events. This was the actual first official boost leak test day at my house and it was a success. I plan on having (2) this next year.
Very nice. Sounds like you had a lot on your hands. There was a local that had a AGP hotside pipe and sure enough it was rubbing on the lower torque strut and had a nice deep dent/scratch, only a matter of time before it would turn into a hole. I put my stock LPP on for him.
