nope, the turkey is all on the intake side. exhaust is on the other side of the engine haha. its true its nothing to really worry about, but if youre doing work and have a chance to fix it theres no reason not to. unless you really like it, there was one person running 20+ psi on the stock turbo without fixing it so it would be different... and loud. mind you, he had a GT28RS waiting to be installed if it went bad, but he ended up doing the install before it failed.