I officially hate my life.

[WhtTrshPunk2]

So, after just recently recovering from my slight mishap (busted control arm, bent wheels), I was thoroughly enjoying my car. On the way home, right as i was about to shift under moderate boost pressure, I heard a loud POP!, and my engine promptly died. It will start, but boost pressure is erratic and it bucks like your mom while under load. So I towed it home and now I need to figure out the problem. No visible vacuum leaks but then again I am semi-retarded. Any ideas? Please help me prevent suicide.

[chrislis]

the whole bucking like your mom while under load thing totally made me lose focus in this post, sorry but i just died laughing at that.

[SyndromeVII]

Your not the only one with bad luck

[themadscientist]

check the basics first. Pull the plugs and take a look, are they different from each other or damaged? give the turbo a spin with your fingers, rolls smoothly? Check the radiator for drops of oil and the dipstick for traces of water.

[Sky240PWR]

Wow!! ...I thought it was just your mom that bucked like that!

[srpowered240sx]

sounds like i/c piping, pressure test it.

[VinceSez]

blown headgasket ... just taking a wild guess. my car did the same exact thing when I had a blown headgasket.

[WhtTrshPunk2]

Good news, it was just the coupling from hotpipe to intercooler. Not visibly disconnected but a quick tug revealed it wasn't attached at all. So I put it back together and it runs fine. Idle is a little shaky, but I think it has some excess fuel in the cylinder from the short distance (about 1/16 of a mile) that i drove it last night.

[dickie]

congrats man could have been much worse.

[ILikeMy240sx]

haha I was going to say intercooler piping but then you got it fixed... Usually when you hear POP and car "bucks like your mom" then piping came loose or something.

[WhtTrshPunk2]

Good chance that my plugs are fouled? Haven't had time to check yet

[ILikeMy240sx]

if you tried to run it with the intercooler piping off for a while, over-rich condition might have caused your plugs to foul... takes 5 mins to check.. Id check it.