Benjamin Hundred
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Hey everyone, I’m having a weird sputtering sound coming from my car (video below), most noticeable under acceleration but the idle noise is changed too. I’m assuming an exhaust or turbo issue, it started very light and has gotten worse with time, I also notice it smells like it running rich after anything past mild acceleration and power feels like it’s considerably down when accelerating in boost levels.
The noise gets louder and worse the more heavy acceleration I push, on WOT (windows up) at highway speeds it sounds horribly loud and something is leaking or broken. It left a vibration under acceleration afterwards that lasted maybe 5-10 minutes and went away. Engine fuel/air appears to be just fine and RPM’s are super smooth.
This is the 2.3 Ecoboost, everything’s stock on the engine, no tune. Just a Mishimoto Raidiator, CVF charge pipes and a Whipple Race intercooler. Does have 145K miles, but everything’s been maintained religiously with no major issues ever. Not too worried about the issue, even if the turbo is shot I don’t mind buying a new one (probably go Turbonetics), I just really don’t want to waste time at a shop diagnosing and wasting money.
The noise gets louder and worse the more heavy acceleration I push, on WOT (windows up) at highway speeds it sounds horribly loud and something is leaking or broken. It left a vibration under acceleration afterwards that lasted maybe 5-10 minutes and went away. Engine fuel/air appears to be just fine and RPM’s are super smooth.
This is the 2.3 Ecoboost, everything’s stock on the engine, no tune. Just a Mishimoto Raidiator, CVF charge pipes and a Whipple Race intercooler. Does have 145K miles, but everything’s been maintained religiously with no major issues ever. Not too worried about the issue, even if the turbo is shot I don’t mind buying a new one (probably go Turbonetics), I just really don’t want to waste time at a shop diagnosing and wasting money.
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