uh... yeah. i'm dumb.

intake manifold is on the other side of the engine from the turbo. duh.

my attention to detail was sub-par on that one. for some reason i was thinking breaking apart and going into the head, i probably didn't even read turbo... and when i read 'intake' i wasn't thinking 'air filter'.

still, dumb on my part.

anyway, now that my retard moment has passed, i don't see how an air filter would break apart and suck up into the turbo though... maybe after years of neglect, but a filter is a filter, right?