Resolved 2g Car lost power while driving

[VivaLaOC]

Car was driving and working fine up until today, I was driving at about 55mph came to a stop, went back into 1st and started going again. Got into 2nd and was at about 35-45 and the car lost power and just died. I pulled over checked all belts including the timing belt. Everything was fine im not leaking oil or coolant, and the car goes into gear just fine. I think the exhaust manifold cracked and thats whats causing my issue but I'm not sure and here's a photo of that. Please help. Also I limped it home and it wouldn't go past 2500rpm in any gear and I only was able to go about 25mph.

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[VivaLaOC]

Nevermind im an idiot. Lower ic pipe was off. Problem solved.

 

[pauleyman]

For what it's worth those cracks would not cause it to die. Think about it. The entire exhaust is a giant hole. Glad you found it.

 

[VivaLaOC]

For what it's worth those cracks would not cause it to die. Think about it. The entire exhaust is a giant hole. Glad you found it.

True, but the bigger crack had me worried and I just noticed all the cracks today when all that happened. What I did was put some painters tape around the lower ic exit and added another clamp on beside the one that was already on there so there's more holding in on now, I'm hoping to get stainless steel piping in the future so this doesn't happen again but so far its worked fine. Just took it on a test drive and I'm running fine again. Getting 12lbs again and rpms are back to normal. Oh yeah and when i got home and jacked the car up i instantly saw this and knew what the issue was hahaha

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[pauleyman]

I would lose that painters tape.
Stainless piping doesn't help. Its the beads in the pipe. I've seen countless stories about guys that built their own ic pipes and constantly blow couplers off because the pipes aren't beaded. Clean up the ic fitting and reattach. Good as new.

 

[randman2011]

^ yeah, I agree. Clean pipes are the best way to go. If you're really worried about blowing the pipes again, get T bolt clamps to replace the factory worm gear hose clamps. But at factory boost pressure they shouldn't be necessary.

 

[TheRippedNerd]

True, but the bigger crack had me worried and I just noticed all the cracks today when all that happened. What I did was put some painters tape around the lower ic exit and added another clamp on beside the one that was already on there so there's more holding in on now, I'm hoping to get stainless steel piping in the future so this doesn't happen again but so far its worked fine. Just took it on a test drive and I'm running fine again. Getting 12lbs again and rpms are back to normal. Oh yeah and when i got home and jacked the car up i instantly saw this and knew what the issue was hahaha

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these guys are right, i had this issue on my 05 GTI, the stupid lower IC pipe always popped off under boost at 25 psi, so i had to rig it with ducktape, gorilla glue and hopes and dreams it ran amazingly for the next few years and that pipe never came off but, the smart way would have been to just clean up the pipe or get that one pipe replaced instead of the whole pipe kit (it had a FMIC on it but the lower pipe was still stock)

 

[VivaLaOC]

Okay, I'll do that then. Thanks for the tips