You in the normally aspirated crowd won't know anything about this stuff...

In the interest of doing some 'theraputic' maintenance on Marlene, Friday night I'd pulled her overboost line to clean the banjos and the lines to the ALDA.

As it turned out, the lines weren't clogged.

Fast forward to Sunday afternoon... I head to San Antonio on an errand and what? I'm getting passed like I'm in leathermang's 240D. I can barely make it up small hills with the air conditioner on. Jeeze! What can it be?

My mind races, I must have gotten a load of dirty fuel, I should have adjusted those valves, a thousand other shouldas...

So, I pop the hood this afternoon and, on a lark, look at the overboost line...which is now hanging loose underneath the overboost switch. I guess, in putting it all back together, I managed to pull the pressure line loose from the bottom of the overboost switch.

Hmmm... loose line to ALDA = no extra fuel to injectors = ZERO performance which, of course was the complaint in the first place. Reattaching the line returned Marlene to her former glory.

Went ahead and changed the in-line and the spin-on filters and, while I had the system open, and replaced the return line cigar hose. It was getting cracked where it bends.

If the way Marlene performed without her ALDA line properly connected is any indication of how a normally aspirated 5 cylinder functions, that Garrett turbocharger is worth every cubic inch of space it occupies on the right hand side of the engine compartment.

Lesson learned.

R

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