Another 16 GT bits the dust

[Maverick3169]

Yup, add another one to the collection. Mine lasted about six months before crapping out.
It appears that I have two cracks in my turbine housing, some side to side shaft play, and a tad bit of in and out play.
I bought it from four corners performance (who offered a 12 month 12K mile warranty), and they don't want to honor their warranty.

I guess I'm just speaking my mind about this. I bought it thinking that it was going to be a decent turbo, knowing that it there has been mixed results on the forums.
Well, now I can speak from experiance that this turbo is garbage.

Luckily I have a new MHI Evo 16G on the way.

So, take my advice, do not buy this turbo.

 

[Maverick3169]

Oh, and I would have posted this in the correct forum, but I'm a "New Member" so I'm limited to posting it here.

 

[keymaster]

Actually, this is one of the first GT failures I've seen on here. Btw, it's perfectly normal to have a bit of side-to-side shaft play. In and out is bad. Define "crapping out" though, because you didn't mention any catastrophic failure, jsut a couple little cracks and some shaft play. Where are you drawing your oil feed from? If you're going from the head, try going from the filter housing, it's cleaner with higer pressure.

 

[Maverick3169]

Actually, this is one of the first GT failures I've seen on here. Btw, it's perfectly normal to have a bit of side-to-side shaft play. In and out is bad. Define "crapping out" though, because you didn't mention any catastrophic failure, jsut a couple little cracks and some shaft play. Where are you drawing your oil feed from? If you're going from the head, try going from the filter housing, it's cleaner with higer pressure.

Feedline is aftermarket routing to the oil filter housing. It has about 3/16th shaftplay (maybe more) each way (side to side). and maybe 1/16th in and out. Also the housing is cracked in two different places. It must be cracked all the way through because the turbo doesn't takes forever to build any boost pressure, and it sounds like a damn semi.

 

[Maverick3169]

Define "crapping out" though, because you didn't mention any catastrophic failure, jsut a couple little cracks and some shaft play.

You don't think that its bad if a 6 month old turbo does this out of nowhere? I check for shaft play every week... so this isn't a gradual failing turbo. As soon as it started sounding strange, and having problem building boost, it all of a sudden had shaftplay and a couple cracks. I know what "normal" side to side shaft play is, but this is more than normal.

 

[mavisky]

What is the exact web address for the company you ordered this from. We need to know if it was one of the turbochargers.com gt's or one of the even cheaper chinese versions.

 

[Maverick3169]

What is the exact web address for the company you ordered this from. We need to know if it was one of the turbochargers.com gt's or one of the even cheaper chinese versions.

It was through Four Corners Performance.
This is one of their ebay adds (I bought it this way):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TD05...33742QQitemZ8030263555QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

At the time, it was selling for more than that... I think I paid 550.00 or so.

This was not one of those SS Autochrome turbo's. I made sure not to buy one of those... I guess in the end it didn't matter. The turbo still failed.

BTW- Is there any way you could not list me as a new member? I may be new to this forum, but not to DSM's. Sorry for going O/T.

 

[Maverick3169]

It was this guy:
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=177213

 

[1993eclipseGS]

Haha, It lasted 6months, Wow you're lucky! I had one and it lasted for 1 ride around the block, Before it was blown. The second one they had sent me for free, I kept on until a few weeks ago, Which was only driven for about 200 miles if that, And I was literally able to grab the compressor wheel and move it over an inch in and out, And side to side it was like a swing set in the wind. The only reason the first one was bought was the previous owner bought it and blew it up after a ride around the block, The second one was replaced right before I bought the car, I bought it with 0 miles on the turbo. They're junk from what I have encountered. I would never buy one with my own money thats for sure.

I sold the blown turbo for $50 to a local idiot which knew it was blown, and he sold it on ebay for over $320, So I feel really bad for whoever bought it because he didn't list that it was blown.....

 

[Maverick3169]

Wow, and I thought I had it bad. Thats the real reason why I posted this... I just hope people won't make the same mistake that I did.

 

[jackstandracer]

I just got my evo316g and cost about same as those crap turbos, and i say if you wanted a 16g go evo3 and not to waste money on those crap gt's, all everyone hears is crap coming from them.

 

[Maverick3169]

I just got my evo316g and cost about same as those crap turbos, and i say if you wanted a 16g go evo3 and not to waste money on those crap gt's, all everyone hears is crap coming from them.

I already know that now... and as I stated above, I just ordered a new MHI Evo 16G.