Stuffed Turbo R33 Gtst

[SS#eater]

well i knew something was wrong my turbo stated whistling louder than usuall... it got the better of me so i pulled the intake off and found this.... bit pits and marks in the turbo fins

i cannot find the peice of metel or whateva went threw it god only knows where it ended up...any advice help or anyone with a 2nd hand turbo in good condition let me know

[MANWHORE]

I'd be more worried about scored bores than finding a new turbo.

Firstly, somethign must have run through the turbo for it to be like that. The stuff that went throguht he turbo + the bits of the turbo wheel would have then made it into your engine.

If that was my car, i'd take off all the intake piping and shake the intercooler out and see if there's anythign in therel. then i'd strain the engine oil and look for particles.

Then i'd get a compression test.

[Sumo]

ouch, Thats bad luck.

Cheers

Sumo

[Lithium]

Or if you're lucky, it'll be like mine where the intercooler caught the bits. A GT30R was a nice problem solver.

Edit: Oh, only small bits missing - mine chomped off big bits... eek

Edited December 29, 2006 by Lithium

[discopotato03]

It looks like its been running with a questionable air filter at some stage .

Cheers A .

[justin911]

i had my stock turbo die while i was at the drags.. both sides of the turbo were completely chomped into 1000 pieces..

there was bits of the turbo wheel stuck in the throttlebody inbetween the butterfly thingy (most of the turbo was in the cat and intercooler) then it made a wierd soon-to-be-a-rebuild ticking noise.. then the ticking noise went away after 4 days... and the ol girl was good as new

[SS#eater]

well am getting compression test done this week new turbo comming soon hopefully...the car isnt blowing any smoke and was pulling strong prior to ficnding this fault.. i would not have even noticed the noise if it wasnt for me winding the window down to chat to to a mate in another car because usually radio is up loud and a/c on so i guess im lucky i an unlucky way... let you know how it goes..

[Adriano]

It doesn't look like anything big has gone through there, i would check the piping and cooler and replace the turbo with a slide highflow, they are cheap, and you end up with a better, new turbo.

[R31Nismoid]

I'd be trying to workout whats been going in there.

you can also see marks on the whole mouth of the turbo, i doubt thats from an isolated item that went in there