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Whistling noise at idle

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Old Sep 20, 2017 | 06:57 AM
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Whistling noise at idle

2005 mini cooper s it has 213000 miles.drinking gas bad. It has lost power. Just replaced sparkplugs, and valve cover gasket two weeks ago. Ran great got better gas mileage started running sluggish and has a whisling noise at idle
yesterday.have any ideas?
 
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Old Sep 20, 2017 | 07:42 AM
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Are the plugs fuel soaked?
 
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Old Sep 20, 2017 | 04:00 PM
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Moving you to the Gen1 area. Our supercharged engines are greek to some of the turbo folks here.
 
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Old Sep 21, 2017 | 07:02 AM
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Sounds like you've got a vacuum leak somewhere, time to break out the smoke machine or your finely tuned can of brake clean leak detector.
 
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