To tune or Not to tune?

[btwilson86]

Oil is coming out of the intercooler pipes at the couplers? That's a boost leak. Since oil is thicker than air, if oil is leaking air is definitely leaking. That's probably your lack of power and boost. That is also most likely your vacuum leak causing your rough idle, unless you've fixed that already.

I still don't believe your problem is a tune, your car is not significantly drawing any more air in at idle than it was before. Your problems (to me) seem more likely to be a vacuum/boost leak, which it seems you have confirmed oil seeping. To answer your question, you do not need any additional bracing to stop your pipes from leaking. I have the generic intercooler kit you see all over eBay with the 2.5" hard pipes, and I have nothing supporting them other than what they attach to. It took awhile, but after tightening them several times after running the car, I was finally able to seal the connections and no longer have vacuum/boost leaks.

The oil leaking into your pipes may likely be from a bad seal in the turbo or possibly oil from the pcv system.

[btwilson86]

I reread your last post, what type of intercooler pipes do you have? Are they v-band style, do they use silicone couplers, or are they something else?

[supraheelfan]

I got silicone couplings from the Driftmotion intercooler they sell; the one with the inlet and outlet on the same side.

[supraheelfan]

I don't see how the turbo itself is bad but the gasket could need some attention and that might also cause this problem?

[btwilson86]

Yeah, I really doubt the turbo is bad as well. The seal I was talking about is internal to the turbo, and should be new with the rebuild. I don't know if its normal or not, but when I got my new-to-me 57 trim from Driftmotion, mine did leak a little oil into the compressor side (I poured oil in the CHRA to lube bearings and such before install). My understanding is this is normal, and turbos normally do seep a little oil into the cold side.

I had to tighten the $hit out of my silicone couplers, way tighter than I thought they should be, in order to stop the leaks I had

[supraheelfan]

Also, I am bewildered that oil is coming out of the bov that I had to put on with a snap ring. Maybe the pressure is too much at that spot and shooting out the place with less resistance? But if a pipe doesn't pop off then oil will come out somewhere even though I have been tightening the crap out of the metal clamps.

[supraheelfan]

I've never had any kind of problems like this until this freaking Driftmotion intercooler. So wtf, I don't want to go back to the stock intercooler but I just might have to in order to see what is happening. Any ideas?