It was built, it was ran for less then 300 miles, it shelled out! Pics and Vid.

[sra_chipmunk]

Well I was driving in town yesterday and all of a sudden my car starts to smoke and it sounds like my turbo **** out. I pulled it off tonight and this is what I see.





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[Sabrewings]

I hope you kept the MAF screen. That happened to an Impala guy with the Cartuning kit and the only thing that saved his engine was that screen.

[sra_chipmunk]

I hope you kept the MAF screen. That happened to an Impala guy with the Cartuning kit and the only thing that saved his engine was that screen.

I am hoping that the front mount cought the chunks of compressor.

[GTPJOE90]

dude not cool i hope everything works out for u!

[SyntheticShield]

linky no workie. That is indeed not cool, I hope that is all that is damaged.

[sra_chipmunk]

linky no workie. That is indeed not cool, I hope that is all that is damaged.

Link fixed.

[Trannyman95]

OUCH! That sux to see for sure!

[VinnieGTP]

OUCH! I'm creaping up on 300 on my build now.... crap

[UR LOSN]

YIKES!!!!!!! bearing went bad? or is it a free floating?

[Bio248]

what actually happened?

[sra_chipmunk]

what actually happened?

I dont know. I was talking about it with a buddy of mine and the only thing we can think of was that the bearing went bad and cause the compressor wheel to shift forward into the housing.

[Bio248]

that sucks, at least you didnt suck anything up and grenade the whole turbo.

[Reptile]

I've seen where the wastegate sticks shut and causes that too....most of the time it just bends the blades.

[Freebeer187]

Oh man!!! How does that happen!! That turbo doesnt look cheap!!

[Trannyman95]

I've seen where the wastegate sticks shut and causes that too....most of the time it just bends the blades.

One of my turbo books talks about this, and even some Ford Diesel trucks run into this and the compressor wheel just explodes and sometimes guys get lucky and find it in the air filter box lol. If the compressor surges or the wheel hits a stall point it puts a lot of stress on the fins. It didnt look like the fines were digging into the housing but is hard to tell. I have seen turbos with a bad floating type bearing and the wheel just grinds into the housing and wears down the fins but I dont know about the way this one looks.

[Reptile]

One of my turbo books talks about this, and even some Ford Diesel trucks run into this and the compressor wheel just explodes and sometimes guys get lucky and find it in the air filter box lol. If the compressor surges or the wheel hits a stall point it puts a lot of stress on the fins. It didnt look like the fines were digging into the housing but is hard to tell. I have seen turbos with a bad floating type bearing and the wheel just grinds into the housing and wears down the fins but I dont know about the way this one looks.

I've mostly seen it on the heavy diesel side because of the shop I'm at. Those things are fairly delicate, and at the same time put under extreme amounts of stress. Like you said, most of it ends up in the air cooler, and never really makes it to the engine, and then you have to end up having the cooler flushed.

[MichEE]

wow!! I bet that made some serious noise!

[Street Wolf]

Sh*t dude.

[sra_chipmunk]

wow!! I bet that made some serious noise!

It sure did. I was pulling about 13.5lbs of boost and then all of a sudden the boost dropped to 5lbs and then jumped back up to 13.5lbs and then boom! Smoke and an ungodly noise that no GP owner should ever have to go through.