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Old Jun 24, 2009 | 09:33 PM
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A new air filter will not fix it no. What you have is a cycle of events where the forced air into your engine cant be swallowed and then causes the compressor to stall creating your chattering noise. Obviously the stalling creates less air flow into your engine and you get to the point where your engine does swallow what it is given. Once the stalling turbo can wind itself freely again it will throw more air into your engine and the whole cycle starts again. What you need to do is either run less boost, change the spec of your turbo or cap the boost in the midrange so it isnt making full boost until further up the revs. I have a standard ported head and a gt30 and no surge.

I am not the most technical person on here and someone else will come along and give you a more technical description of what is going on but it wonbt go away of its own accord and has nothing to do with your air filter. You could take your filter off and it will still do it.
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