MickeyWRX

is it a good sign if you can hear you turbo spinning up? it sounds healthy to me!

MY95 WRX import

Scuba

What sort of tunin' has been done to it?

If it has a cone filter or downpipe then its OK to here that noise.

MickeyWRX

nah dont think so, its totally standard!

mr flibble

can here mine too! spines up between 2000 - 3000rpm and then goes for it after 3000rpm, if i take my foot off of the accel pedal after 3500rpm i can here it chirp.

MY00 afterburner backbox. No other mods.

Car has done it since i bought it when it was on 6,500 miles. now on 40k.

Is that normal?

M.

MickeyWRX

yeah was doing about 120mph the other day and there was this noise which sounded as if it was coming from the air vents in the middle and it was ver loud like a brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr sort of sound (something spinning very fast but iy wasnt coming fromthe turbo area

any ideas?

highlander68k

Mickey, The sound you heard could have been a few things, especially at that kind of RPM. (no doubt fairly consistent?)

It could have been a heat shield (on the turbo), the wind deflectors (if fitted) can cause a few strange deceptive noises. And lastly it could just be a loose bit of trim somewhere at the front, catching the wind.

These things can be pretty hard to find when they only appear at that sort of speed.

MickeyWRX

cheers for that mate - it sounds like a wind sort of noise!

zhastaph

Hi Mickey,

I took mine on the motorway for the first time about a month ago, and found at just over 120mph it made the worst gushing noise ever, we fought one of the doors woz open.


Sussed it in the end, seems at that speed the air pressure sucks the windows out enough for air to be dragged out the car through it