That’s not good

While driving the other night I heard a bang sound followed by a drop in power.  Subsequent the car sounded a bit different.  Initial investigation showed that one of the two wideband O2 sensor bung plugs in the downpipe had come out.

That plug coming out seemed like an odd cause for dropping power so I continued to investigate.  An intake pressure check was good, I tested the wastegate lines and they were good.  When the car was idling there was no smoke or visible water vapor coming from the tail pipe.

I was still suspicious of a possible turbo problem so I hooked up separate pressure sensors to each compressor housing signal line and then went out to record the pressure in the turbo compressor housing.

compressor_comparison

The results are shown above.  The great disparity between the driver side and the passenger side (driver side is blue and passenger side gray), and neither matching the MAP sensor, has me concerned that the passenger side turbo may have failed.