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Hey crew,

Just blew the turbo on my car, its the old hpi r32 4door drift car. Most of you would know the car?

It was running a kkr 480, what would be a good upgrade similar to this size turbo? it was running 250kw at the moment on 20psi... rb24 stroker motor. Also wondering if I will have to open up the motor or not as I poured alot of metal out of the cooler and pipes!

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks Joey.

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Personally i would be sending the turbo back to KKR and askign how do you explain such a catastrophic turbo failure. I personally woudl carefully rip off the inlet pipe to the throttle body and see if there is any debris in that pipe, up to /around the throttle body..

The intercooler woudl tend to be a reasonably good filter for crap boing through, but fine particles woudl still most likely get through. Perhaps pull the plugs and crank it over for a bit to clear it????

Best consult a trusted mechanic me says... :D

thats rather horrible... i would consider buying another cooler also since its going to be too hard to get all the shards out your current one.

Consider a garret GT3071R IW T3 housing and you'll crank big numbers with better responce

seems to be a few KKR's dropping off....GEN TT just stopped using them also, i hope they can sort out the issues for all the tight asses out there :P im sure it is just one of those things, im pretty sure the oil control issue is sorted now. ive not heard of another failure like this though.

slap on a 3071 or a td06sh-25g

Wow, that is a serious failure right there! Were you doing anything out of the ordinary?

Just floored it in 2nd gear bounched the Bee-R rev limiter once then ka boom!

nO FUN...

Thanks for the replies guys. Will go to local mechanic some time today, on foot god dammit...

Just floored it in 2nd gear bounched the Bee-R rev limiter once then ka boom!

nO FUN...

Thanks for the replies guys. Will go to local mechanic some time today, on foot god dammit...

That explains it... cheap turbo and crazy shaft forces caused by BEE-R rev limiter.......

that doesnt look good!

im running kkr480 turbo aswell, run around about 1.3bar or 19psi daily thru it, but ive noticed mines water cooled and oil cooled..why is all the kkrs ive seen are only oil cooled? hmmmm

that doesnt look good!

im running kkr480 turbo aswell, run around about 1.3bar or 19psi daily thru it, but ive noticed mines water cooled and oil cooled..why is all the kkrs ive seen are only oil cooled? hmmmm

Not sure on that one? You must have got lucky! Good luck with yours, hope it stays together...

post the bits back to them with a thank you card. that is a heap of crap. it looks to me like it failed in part due to the cheap arse materials. I mean look at the way the compressor cover backing plate has just exploded. what a piece of junk.

yeah i think he has got something to do with them in a big way - ever noticed how hpi started pushing all things otomoto?

preety sure he is a member on here aswell and might be able to hook you up cause it dosent look too good having the hpi project car with the turbo that they push have a massive failure

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