[sperry]

Dean, you're lucky you didn't melt every damn thing under the hood in the area of the turbo. That's more than a "leak"... that's a "throw the pipe in the trash" failure. The pipe is more than "well used"... and by the sound of your car, I bet it's been busted at least since the last auto-x. (I was just attributing the awful sound to the divorced waste-gate, but a massive leak makes all sorts of sense for the brashness of the exhaust note.)

Time for a whole new turbo-back IMO. And I wouldn't stress the divorced WG vs. bell-mouth designs, the dyno really hasn't shown a difference.