Turbo is dead..

Franko · Post by **Franko** » August 25th, 2006, 10:32 am

Yep, thats right. The thrust bearing went in my damn turbo causing the blades to contact the housing ruining the housing and royaly screwing the compressor wheel.

Turbo is about 4 years old or so and had alot of use so I suppose it was time. Still annoying though. Anyway, thats the bad news.. The good news is that my buddy had some used turbo parts kicking around I got a t4 housing and wheel off him so im going to turn my t3 into a t3/t4 hybrid so I should be making some good power with that at 15 psi. When I get the turbo back from being rebuilt ill take some pics of it. It could be today (friday) but most likely it will be monday... Sigh.. the weekend without my car..

jaydog5678 · Post by **jaydog5678** » August 25th, 2006, 6:14 pm

The same thing happened to my rebuilt vj-20. I would say 4 yrs of good boosting fun, you've got all that you could get out of it. Good luck with the new setup.

ModMX3 - (Carmaster2005) · August 26th, 2006, 8:38 am

Sorry to hear man. But it could be worse, Like me,

.....ahhhhhhh new pistons. On the plus side your setup will be better than when you started. Good luck