[ScoobyStu]

Good evening to you all

Some may have seen my post on the Facebook page regarding what happened to me today, so for those who haven't....

When I was driving from work earlier today, I was at about 3000rpm about to come on (full?) boost when it felt like the car had stalled/misfired/stuttered followed by a pop/bang from the exhaust. Tears began to well as I thought I'd just blown the engine, but it was still running, no smoke/flames/other pant filling signs. However the engine light is now on and won't go out. Not dared tried to get it to spool up again for fear of further damage. If the light wasn't on and you drove it off boost, you'd never know anything was wrong, much to my relief. Simon (JGM) answered my post on Facebook for which I'm very grateful. He thinks it's a boost related problem which even to a mechanical numpty like me, makes sense. Said it could be a map issue or split or popped off hose. Brilliant i thought, relief was felt and i even grimaced a little as I thought I'll sort this out then. Popped the bonnet and the headache began. There's loads of little hoses! I only found one near the turbo off the solenoid (i think) and that seemed OK. What I need and would like from a very helpful person is a picture or description of which pipes to check first or which one it could be because believe me, I'll be checking the brake lines,petrol lines the lot if left to it, absolutely none the wiser!

It's an 03 UK Sti Blob, Stage 1 tuned by GRD. All I've done mod wise is run a cold air feed from for insets to air box as it had no feed at all, the snorkel had been removed. Saturday I was going to the rolling road day to check out if all was well.....Irony. Also put octane booster in, this is my second tank with it in.

Sorry for the long winded post, I like to try and cover as much as possible so you half know what the hell I'm on about!! As always, thank you in advance, Stu


Ps. If it helps as the weather was so atrocious there was no hard or even firm driving as such, car was well warmed up as had been running 20-25min and driven approx 6-7 miles when this happened.