[Vwdiesel] Turbo Talk

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

> Another may be their relative age/mileage.
>  I ran around in an 83 TD Jetta with a KKK and no muffler for a few months,
>  and it had very pronounced turbo whine.  My Scirocco has a 97 KKK factory
>  reman with less than 20,000km on it, and with no muffler you can still
>  hear the turbo spool, but it's nowhere near as loud as the 83 was.
>
  I had more of the opposite happen.  I never heard the turbo on the
5000TD until I had it rebuilt.  You could hear it whine then but in only a
certain, short range.
     Loren