Explaination for this please!

[Joeh]

Sorry for bothering you all again I\'m a headache which never disappears

Anyway... I wonder if anyone knows why this was done to my car before I bought it....

I\'ve circled two vacuum hoses below which were blocked using screws (on purpose), but I couldn\'t work out what the hell the owner was trying to do.

I\'ve connected them back.. I\'m not sure but could it be a reason to why my car pops and bangs at high revs? Even if its not, I\'m curious to why its been done.

Any advice please

Thanks

[nikp]

God knows why previous owner did that - but a couple of hoses on the twin turbo system have pills in (Reduces the diameter of the hoses), I wonder if he was trying to do that?

[Joeh]

I don\'t think he was.. they were just ended off...

I\'m in confusion myself .... o___O I think he wanted it to die on me I put them back on before I drove the car because I wanted to check everything for myself before hand and found them both blocked with large screws.. I didn\'t really trust him much... hes seemed like a very dodgy mechanic.

[Jit]

those hoses shouldnt have pills in them...
god only knows what he was doing

[Joeh]

Should I go back to him and give him a bitch slap?

[Brett]

At a glance those are going to the duty solenoids - so I\'m assuming the car would either run open loop (ie over boost) or closed loop. (Run less bosst as the wastegate would be linked direct to the +pressure side? (Depending on what he did with the other end of that hose?

[m4drx]

i had exactly the same done on my car and found this was somehting to do with how someone had attempted to put the boost controller on perhaps but either way i pulled it all of.

[Joeh]

Thanks for the explainations everyone !
I am guessing its something related to boost controller, as he removed it before giving me the car.. what a slag!

I\'ll check all the other vacuum hoses just to make sure he didnt remove anything else :O!

[jonrx7uk]

I blocked the same 2 hoses when i plumbed in the Electronic boost controller a while back, as they were no longer needed.

The blocked hoses should have been replaced when he took the EBC off!

Jon