Hello! (New member)

[thecrash91]

you could just buy a used one for ~300 bucks on the forum, i know im going to be selling one soon

 

[skiball05]

Yeah that's the plan.. only one I've seen is from scratchnsniff for $300 for turbo only and if that WGA i mentioned ^^^ is the correct one then it is $79 so I wouldn't be upset about those prices to get those parts for my car. I PMed scratchnsniff but haven't heard anything back yet. Didn't have much luck finding anyone else trying to sell a stock one.

My original plan when I bought the car was to just buy an aftermarket turbo that had similar to OEM specs that would mount up.. Then I was told that the MSP turbo housing and flange is specific to this car so it can't just be swapped with an aftermarket T25 which kinda sucks, so hopefully the forum will pull one out for me to replace mine instead of paying ~$1,000+ for a new one from a dealer/website.

 

[GreezyG]

Welcome!

Mine was acting much like yours when I first got it. Test the WGA like another said by blowing into the vacuum line feeding it, if you can blow air through, replace the WGA. I would also replace ALL the vacuum lines and see how it runs then before you pull out the wrenches.

 

[skiball05]

The turbo has 2 small cracks (not sure exactly what part of the turbo it was but the mechanic showed me.) Changing coils and plugs tonight and got a turbo on the way (purchased from scratchnsniff) and also ordered the wga from ATP so hopefully the MSP will be on the road after all these repairs..