Possible Blown Turbo?

5150 · 10-12-2006, 06:45 PM

Well heres whats up, the other night me and my buddy went for a nice drive through the mountains, well about half way through i noticed my car being real laggy so we pulled over and i popped the hood. The turbine housing was red hot literally. So i figured something was up so we heded home. Got the car home and it turned out that along the drive somewhere i managed to tear a hole in my lower IC piping. So that led me to believe my turbo was glowing because it was spinning much more than it really should of been trying to get to boost. So i fixed that and pulled off my intake to check the turbo. Well there was no shaft play, but when you spun the turbine it would spin easy and the get hard to spin and then easy again. Now even though i pretty much know the answer to this question im gonna ask it anyway. Is my turbo gone? Oh and just in case its not, whats up?

By the way its a mitsu 18g and it only had 700 miles on it.

96gsdsm · 10-12-2006, 07:25 PM

It sounds to me like you might have bent your shaft.

Look inside and see if you can see the compressor wheel hitting the housing, or scratch marks anywhere on the housing where the compressor wheel might have made contact as well.

Looks like it's time for a rebuild.

5150 · 10-13-2006, 12:26 PM

yeh thats what my buddy thought, i was just hoping against it sense it was brand new, oh well.
So does anyone know of a good place to get rebuild parts?

UMR98GSX · 10-13-2006, 01:40 PM

Forced Performance will set you up nicely!

96gsdsm · 10-13-2006, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by UMR98GSX

Forced Performance will set you up nicely!

Agreed. Forced performance really knows their stuff... they set me up with my Evo 3.

5150 · 10-13-2006, 07:12 PM

well yeah thats who i would send it to, i was just hoping that i wasnt going to have to sense it is practically brand new.

96gsdsm · 10-14-2006, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by 5150

well yeah thats who i would send it to, i was just hoping that i wasnt going to have to sense it is practically brand new.

If the shaft wasn't bent you could buy a rebuild kit and do it yourself.... but since the shaft has to be replaced, your compressor wheel is going to have to be balanced on it.

5150 · 10-14-2006, 12:51 AM

well right now im very broke, the last bit of money i had i spent on my fmic kit so will it be ok to drive without causing further damage to the turbo and any damage to the motor?

96gsdsm · 10-14-2006, 01:35 AM

If you absolutely must drive, STAY OUT OF BOOST. What will eventually happen is... assuming your turbo doesn't chunk to pieces first.... your bearing(s) will prematurely wear and you'll be spitting out a very very nice James Bond style smoke screen. Trust me, I've blown a turbo before. It's more smoke then you would think... and if that happenns, then you have no car.

If it has to be driven, I'd say pull off the wastegate actuator so you absolutely can not hit boost... and baby it to hell. Either way... the turbo isn't going to last too long.

Good luck man.

5150 · 10-14-2006, 12:47 PM

yeh well i have to drive it because its my only way of getting to work. My works like 15 miles away so theres no choice but to drive it. It will probably be about 2 weeks before i can get it fixed.

Oh and by the way i appreciate all the help

96gsdsm · 10-14-2006, 02:32 PM

Not a problem

... like I said baby it, no boost, and it should last those 2 weeks. ... also be prepaired for very very bad gas mileage.