Blown Turbo On Ex Hpi R32 4door Rb24 Motor

[white32]

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.

Edited October 31, 2007 by white32

[Roy]

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...

[Simon-S14]

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

[Cubes]

The amount of bits. :S I'd definitely be looking at a new cooler as you can't be sure you've got everything out; something later may dislodge and stuff a valve/bore etc.

[STATUS]

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 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

[stolen_s15]

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

[white32]

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...

[Wheezy]

Farken Bang.....such is life.

I hope the engine is all good...

25g would go great guns on that....hell even a garrett

[STATUS]

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.......

[BOOSTD]

3071R Internal or 3076R external

Edited October 31, 2007 by BOOSTD

[dano4127]

should send those pics over to ben ellis

kkr please explain!

[Gts-t]

hpi dodge shit up, no huge suprise there

best of luck getting it fixed mate

[l0WRB]

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

[white32]

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...

[Beer Baron]

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.

[l0WRB]

yeah looks like some sort of explosion has happened... doesnt look good at all... all the kkrs ive seen are still running good and no dramas with them..

[Bass Junky]

WOW

That's AWESOME!

I vote "Best Turbo Failure EVAH"

[RBwhatever]

should send those pics over to ben ellis

kkr please explain!

Yeah that's what i'd be doing. Get in contact with Otomoto. I hear Ben owns Otomoto or something along those lines.

Someone please confirm...?

[dano4127]

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

[Gts-t]

HPI fell off