My friends and I were standing around outside my car today, shootin' the ****, when they started asking about my car. One of them wanted to see my engine, so I popped the hood. They all looked around and I showed them the turbo, intercooler, etc. (My car is stock, so its hard to see where things are) when one of my friends said it would look cooler if I took off the engine cover. So I pulled it off. But then it didn't really match, so we took off the plastic airbox cover. Then the battery cover, and finally the whole plastic peice that surrounds the battery area (I am going to put this back on if it starts raining).

When I was driving home, I noticed the turbo was twice as loud. It sounded like the AC running at 50%. Obviously no gains, but it sounds awesome.

 

you drove without an airbox cover? exposing your filter?

 

no, I just took off the little plastic cosmetic peice. The filter is still 100% enclosed. The plastic just dampens the noise a bit, so when I took it off, it was louder.

 

UHHHHHHHH MORE IMPORTANTLY... If the top of the airbox was off, so was the hose that comes from the turbo to maf, leaving the blades exposed!!! If my thinking is right, thats not a super idea.

Oh I see... I wonder how what you say can be true then?? That doesnt make any sense if you are talking about just taking the plastic cosmetic piece off above the air box makes it louder... HMMMM.

 

How's this: I'll take a picture and prove nothing is exposed.

 

Yea do it.. Show me the money. show me the piece with a big red cirlce around it what exact part you took off.. then let the jury decide if you in fact are suffering from the placebo affect, so that i can then declare this as the most stupid post of the day... No offense...... just kidding.. but no, really.

 

Okay, I have to pull and AteUrV8 on you for the moment though. I can't find my digicam and I am going out in a bit and won't be home till around 6-7am tomorrow (gotta party after graduation). Maybe I'll do a single blind experiement too, and see if anyone can tell it is not just a placebo. I know for sure the car is not any faster, it just sounds much louder, especially while the turbo is spooling.

 

There is an aesthetic piece that goes over the airbox. I can barely remember what it looks like.

 

Well if its what he is describing, it is the plastic peice above the air box right by the itake ducting in this pic:

 

Heh, I'm with baconbait, I can barely remember what it looks like.....I have never had any of that stuff he listed on my car...lol