Turbo is ******! take a look

[terbow]

yea im goin back tommorow if it doesnt rain to take the old engine out so ill take a look... im very curious myself.

 

[terbow]

The only sure fire way to tell is to peel the turbo housing open. If there are marks on the inside of the houseing then tada.... answer.... but if the shft had that much play then you could easily just grab the sucker right now and see if it moves that much. Not to mention can a turbo have that much play to the point it hits the housing all the way to the center most point of the shaft. I dont know i guess thats my 2 cents...

well there might be marks on the housing cause either way the compressor wheel exploded so... but if thers some on the turbine side then ill know something hit it when the engine blew. or if the wheels loose and theres nothing on the turbine side then it could have been shaft play. maybe at 6 psi it was ok , but since the WG line had a hole, whatever psi it actually did it was enough to make it go into the housing. ill find out either way.

 

[gomo187]

Figured id come and defend myself and possibly tony. i drove the car and the engine blew while i was driving it..yes. To answer everyones question the boost was about 7-8 psi when it blew. all the other times id driven it, it boosted to almost 10 anyways. there was pleanty of noises, they just all happened after the engine ate itself. i dont know if it was the tune, i trust tony knows what hes doing. it may have been the fact that the car was driven for 2 years untuned boosting sometimes over 10 psi, maybe it had finally just had it. seems these cars blow on their own with minor mods, so to think that one as heavily modded as this one couldnt blow up is rediulous. sometimes things just happen. I have taken blame for it wheather it was my fault or not, and i know tony has too. Both of us have tried helping reguardless, but sweetlou is a good friend and is not gonna blame anyone.

 

[gomo187]

Sweetlou now has the opportunity to step it up to a real car like an EVO and not have to worry about blowing a motor by boosting past 7psi. I Boost 21 psi all day.

 

[EvoMR]

I wouldn't say an Evo is really stepping it up unless he buys a new one. Look at the problems happening with yours, and my 03.

 

[EvoMR]

But if I catch you with an RX8 I will slit your throat Oneil.

 

[smo0f]

what kind of problems are u guys having with your evos. i'm looking to trade in for one

 

[gomo187]

Nothing major yet on mine, but if you look at an Evo go BRAND NEW, dont waste time with used. at 36k i need a new clutch and front suspension, but it just got me to do things i was probably do anyways, just sooner. Evomr had some drivetrain issues on his 03.

 

[igdrasil]

That looks like a foreign object damage. Can you check if theres a hole in the block close to the compressor?

 

[sweetlou69]

here are some pics of my sweet motor...

 

[Kansei]

That would pretty much ruin my day.

 

[terbow]

here are some pics of my sweet motor...

its just a minor blemish. nothing jb weld cant fix.

 

[igdrasil]

no rod...hmm...

Is your starter good? Last time I blew a motor, the rod hit the starter and broke it apart.

 

[terbow]

its hit, its not blown apart tho. so i think its ok., looks like it just cracked the alum part a lil bit. i have to take a closer look at it.

 

[igdrasil]

its hit, its not blown apart tho. so i think its ok., looks like it just cracked the alum part a lil bit. i have to take a closer look at it.

yeah...thats what happened to me, it looked ok but when i tried to start the new engine, it broke apart. So be careful.

 

[terbow]

oh. is there any way to tell?

 

[ghettobubba2001]

open it up and go on an adventure!

 

[terbow]

oh didnt know u can just open em up.. excellent i love exploring. esp on other peoples cars.

 

[bazooka joe]

thread jack...tony, the mani is cracked! guy a talked to today says the wastegate tube into the exhaust could have caused it??

 

[terbow]

yup thats y he probably doesnt make them like that anymore. its actually very common. i dont know if there was a flex pipe in the wg tube but there should be if not. better call beau!