Help: Possible Blown Tubo

[blue_grey_1gDSM]

I have a Gen 1 DSM All Wheel Drive Turbo Eagle Talon. Everything was fine with the car this morning, but after running a few errands I got back into the car, fired it up, and all of a sudden I am only producing boost from -7 to 0 and there is a loud exhaust leak sound coming from the area just underneath the heatshield. I believe this is the header or exhaust manifold area. can anyone provide any insight. Whenever I am on throttle it sounds like a car that has a bad muffler. Any help or insight would be great.

 

[Billy6411]

Remove the heatshield and inspect, its common for 1g manilfolds to crack. Try and read up on the site faq you'll learn a lot

 

[dsmcars16]

Check your manifold. sounds like its cracked from your description.

 

[brandonzero0]

Sounds like massive exhaust leak for one most likely a cracked exhaust manifold.

 

[romeen]

Also check to make sure none of your turbo-manifold bolts have not backed out. There should be 3 bolts and one stud/nut, sometimes 4 bolts. Check for presence of all studs/nuts holding manifold to head also. Do this on a COLD motor! If nothing obvious or tell-tale black, sooty marks at location of leak then start car with heat shield still off and listen and feel for a leak. Don't burn yourself, it heats up real fast. Let us know what you find.