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05-11-2006, 10:00 PM

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peteyd

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If it can go wrong with a turbo tC its already happend to me or kaeon

05-12-2006, 12:32 AM

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If the turbo is new and the shaft isn't loose and bouncing off the housings, but oil is coming out of it chances are you can correct the problem without even taking the turbo back off the car.

How do you fix it? haha is it just me or do they not tell you

05-12-2006, 03:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Clayton1

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If the turbo is new and the shaft isn't loose and bouncing off the housings, but oil is coming out of it chances are you can correct the problem without even taking the turbo back off the car.

How do you fix it? haha is it just me or do they not tell you

Yeh it did I just didnt quote it sorry my bad here is the link
http://www.forcedperformance.net/faq.aspx

05-12-2006, 11:38 PM

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Anyupdates on your stage 0 turbo kit? Is it still smoking?

05-13-2006, 02:56 PM

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That sucks.

The dingle berry comment made me laugh...my friend's dog has that problem

05-14-2006, 12:51 PM

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Eric-tC Im still waiting for turbochargers.com to call me and let me know what went wrong they are closed for the weekend. So I should know monday.

05-15-2006, 04:02 PM

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Just got word that everything with the turbo is ok and from what turbochargers.com told me is that this is caused by "blow by", They said I had oil on the compressor side of the turbo too.. Hmm I didn't think blow by would cause that much oil to enter the exhaust side in such a short trip but maybe I don't know.

They are cleaning it up for me and sending it back hopefully today.

05-15-2006, 06:54 PM

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Interesting.. well.. hopefully it all works out for you bro.. that def sucks.

05-15-2006, 09:22 PM

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I'm glad that you got some good news. I hope that she works for ya

05-15-2006, 10:19 PM

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Well its not good news. According to turbochargers.com my toyota built motor with 16k miles on it witch only maybe 2000 of them have seen boost is shot. They found "metal shavings in the bearings, that are probably from the motor". I was told that the turbo will still leak when they send it back and that I need to do a compression check and leak down on the motor. Well me and

DSM DJ did a compression check and it came out to be around 180psi across the board. So not to start anything but im leaning more to the fact that its the turbo then the fact that my motor is shot or has a problem.

I talked to a few people who sold this turbo And a few who worked in places that sold it and they said they seen a good bit of them returned with blown seals. So I really hope the seals are not blown. I did not see any traces of metal in the oil pan I also pumped the feed line and didn't see any there either. turbochargers.com said they found metal shavings in the bearings im wondering if there was any traces that may lead me to think that the metal is from the bearings?

05-15-2006, 10:26 PM

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____ dude that sucks. So does that mean new motor or what?

05-15-2006, 10:36 PM

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bastards just trying to get out of it, eh?

05-15-2006, 10:37 PM

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bastards just trying to get out of it, eh?

I assume so yes.

05-16-2006, 12:33 AM

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05-16-2006, 12:42 AM

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dude that sux. I hope it all works out for yo.

05-16-2006, 01:57 AM

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This is the ZPI turbo kit that turbochargers.com sells on their site. Why deal with the middle man? Why not work with ZPI directly? Just a thought.

Or is turbochargers.com the "supplier" of the EVO III GT Big 16 turbo? Who is in charge of providing customer service?

Sorry to hear you are the official ginea pig for everything that can go wrong on a turbo tC.

05-16-2006, 02:48 AM

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Turbochargers.com is the supplier of those turbos. They should warrenty that turbo for at least a year like turbonetics..

05-16-2006, 02:54 AM

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Turbochargers.com is the supplier of those turbos. They should warrenty that turbo for at least a year like turbonetics..

According to them nothing is wrong with it. Im going to try to send it back to ZPI for a refund or have them get me a REAL 16g and just pay the difference. Ill see if they go for that I really don't feel comfortable with that turbo...