Help - Turbo-charger question.

Got a new car yesterday... in order to get the full safety package, the car had to include a turbo-charger. Going up a hill, or whatever, there is a whining sound from the engine...kinda like a little Banshee stuck in the engine compartment.

Is this normal sound of a turbo or is this a sign that something else is wrong? Dealer is closed until tomorrow.

 If there is a Banshee in there, and I open the hood latch, am I likely to get bitten?

I think you're ok - some of them sound like a mix between an electric drill and a hand held vacuum cleaner.  

I also had to buy the sunroof that I need like I need another hole in my head. Does anyone want to buy a sunroof? Maybe I will put it on free-cycle.

My turbo is a little whiny. I want to tell it to grow up.   

factory turbos are cute. Electric drill. Electric pencil sharpener. Vacuum. Something along those lines especially when the engine is "in boost".

superchargers are always whiny, hate them.  turbos, though, I wouldn't typically call whiny.

of course every family is different.  ;-)

We've got one in our 2016 Volvo S60 and it has almost no whine at all. Even with the pedal to the metal, you can barely hear the turbo. Our VW's four cylinder turbo only has a sort of ball bearing sound when you floor it. Otherwise, it's a pretty nice sounding engine.

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Got a new car yesterday... in order to get the full safety package, the car had to include a turbo-charger. Going up a hill, or whatever, there is a whining sound from the engine...kinda like a little Banshee stuck in the engine compartment.

Is this normal sound of a turbo or is this a sign that something else is wrong? Dealer is closed until tomorrow.

 If there is a Banshee in there, and I open the hood latch, am I likely to get bitten?

Banshees typically are going right for the soul. Biting isn't in the skill set.

4 bangers with turbo rip pretty good flat and unladen. Add a few humans and a hill and they do sound as though they're laboring a bit. 

Probably because they are. What did you pick up? 

Twincharged honda engines for the win. jackson racing supercharger on the intake side and an enormous tubro on the exhaust side. Zero boost lag and the car pulls until 9000 rpm. Invest in drive belts, a larger pulley for the supercharger, a larger oilpan, a really big intercooler, a racing spec sequential blow-off valve, larger injectors, a fuel cut defenser, a turbo timer, an ignition system that can be advanced or retarded on the fly (or scrap the distributor and get coil packs ), the proper ECU tune / map sensor / oxygen sensors and a "Ferraris For Lunch" license plate frame. 

You're incorrigible.  

And you left out the suspension/tire/wheel/brake bits needed to keep the thing planted while it winds up.  Or you decide to turn.  Or even veer.

And colored wiring.  There ain't no way your setup uses black.  Just sayin'.  

Why would I want to turn?   Suspension is always coil-overs slammed as low as possible to the point that you need do drive the car up on 2x4's to fit the spanner wrenches on the collar. Forget jacking it up with anything resembling a factory jack. Wheels and tries...hrmmmm. Some BBS 16" all around. On the back nitto nt60s (light truck tires that come in silly wide sizes) and the front whatever mickey thompsons currently selling that come with a single brand of tread so you can load/unload the car from a trailer. How could I have skipped on the charge pipes? You NEED titanium pipes welded together with about 4000 welds in 3 to 6 inch segments. As for the wires and hoses everything in Kawasaki Green including connectors and cable ties. The finishing touch is on G-Tech Pro accelerometer for those "this cone shaped filter added 10hp based on the butt dyno!" runs. 

NEED.  lol.

(And I just KNEW there were colored wires in there... must be nice to actually see more than 10% of the engine when you flip the hood open.)

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

I also had to buy the sunroof that I need like I need another hole in my head. Does anyone want to buy a sunroof? Maybe I will put it on free-cycle.

I believe there was another thread about a sunroof.  Maybe they will take it off your hands.   

Long ago, I had a Saab 900turbo. I rarely heard the turbo, and the weird thing was that I would hear it every day on my commute home from work but not on the way to work. I didn't know what it was, as it sounded like a police siren in the distance. I kept looking around for the emergency vehicle. It doesn't modulate its pitch with the engine. It comes on later, after acceleration starts, and then it swings up higher and faster. Then when it applied (or really, enabled) power to the transmission, I got a little motion sick until I really got a feel for what the car was doing and how to control it.

I take it you don't have a boost gauge on your dashboard? That might explain a bit.