Well I had a long weekend. I worked for almost all of it except Saturday. On Saturday I had Steve Glover, who did my timing belt, install my new larger nozzles and a cleaned intake manifold since I don’t have the proper tools. Everything went fine except the number 1 injector took some coaxing to get out, and when I say coaxing I mean Steve and I taking turns using good ol’ fashion brute strength.

After finally getting it out and things reinstalled it was time for a test run. We did some putting around to warm up the engine then checked for any fuel leaks of which there were none. Things were good and I put the new tune in, and turned the car around. Just turning the car around I could feel it had more power so I was really excited. I got the car straight and hit the go pedal. It pulled hard……..till about 3500rpms. That’s when I think somewhere in the turbo whine I heard it say, “I regret nothing!”, and then there was a loud pop and I heard something hit the ground. I immediately turned the car off and stopped, but of course it was already too late. The intake side of the turbo blew off. The tube connecting to the intake also blew off with clamp still on.

Not sure what happened or what went wrong, but suffice it to say. You gotta pay to play. Charlie, owner of KERMATDI, is going to send me a used turbo to get me back on the road which is very nice of him. Unfortunately we didn’t have the VAG-COM going for that run so we may never figure out for sure what happened.