Noise on letup

Don W.

Stab it and steer it
Only had my Sy for a coupe of months. And from the beginning it has a buzz when I let up on the throttle. It’s as if I have a vacuum leak somewhere that only lasts for a second when the throttle is closed. Seems to happen whether on boost or not.

Suggestions???

It’s a stocker BTW.

Also the antilock break light is on all the time but I haven’t researched that on SyTy.net yet so my main question is the buzz.

Don
 

CLONE

New member
When the throttle blades close the excess boost goes back through the compressor wheel. Makes the sound you're describing. Completely normal.
 

InvisiBill

Active member
Regarding the ABS light, you can pull codes from the ABS computer. If it comes back as one of the relatively generic codes, try flushing a ton of brake fluid through the system. Mine came on a while back, and bleeding out the brakes while continuallly adding new fluid to the reservoir (about 16oz total) made it stay gone. Resetting the codes would ususally make it go away for a couple days, but it always came back before I flushed it out...

About the noise, Josh is describing the rush of air getting forced out backwards through the intake. When it hits the turbo, it "flutters" kind of like a horse's lips or something. However, it should only do that when you're into the boost and let off. FYI, a blow-off valve senses the difference in pressures on opposite sides of the throttle blades, and vents out that extra pressure. It does more on manual tranny vehicles (where they're on and off the gas more), but it will put less stress on your turbo if you do install one.

Depending on the type of "buzz", it could be something else. The U-joints on my S-10 are going, and when I let off the throttle it has a tap-tap-tap (well, more like clunk-clunk-clunk now) "buzz". The play in the joints lets it wobble some when the load is taken off the drivetrain...
 

CLONE

New member
Don W. said:
Thanks Josh,
Whadya shoot the tranny with? :eek:
Don

.308, .223, .357mag, .44mag

Pretty soon we've got some other fine GM parts that will be shot up. It's cheap stress relief. Spend $50 on ammo, or spend $50 at a shrink after working on or owning a GM vehicle.
 

SeattleSy#1255

Category 5 Conservative
Re: Noise on letup

Don W. said:
Only had my Sy for a coupe of months. And from the beginning it has a buzz when I let up on the throttle. It’s as if I have a vacuum leak somewhere that only lasts for a second when the throttle is closed. Seems to happen whether on boost or not.

Suggestions???

It’s a stocker BTW.

Also the antilock break light is on all the time but I haven’t researched that on SyTy.net yet so my main question is the buzz.

Don

ya sounds normal to me as well...if you have a K&N air filter or none at all, that will make it louder....If you want to see if this is what is causeing the noise, remove the crossover tube for the air intake (open turbo) if the sound gets louder, its normal don't worry...just don't drive to far with open turbo.
 
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