Blown turbo for your viewing pleasure

[Towlieee]

This is a stock 14b outa my friends 91 laser..
He ran 18-21psi for about 2-3 months on this turbo.. The last day in the morning it would only spool 10psi so we shut it off, later we went to drive it and flooring it, it barley moved.. Ended up catching a pretty big fire under the engine bay that we put out.. Here is the turbo after that


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[Dark Phoenix]

Wow. Now there's some shaft play.

Is your friend going to upgrade to another turbo? If so, which?

 

[L2RTSiAWD]

That's just slightly fooked.

 

[Towlieee]

yea, he already has a 16g from sloboy on it..

 

[doodie]

does he have to rebuild the motor?

 

[Towlieee]

does he have to rebuild the motor?

nah it didnt' hurt the engine at all.. Just fryed the turbo

 

[-GSX-Falcon]

Umm, how did the turbine wheel get destroyed? I was thinking it was from the bits and peices of the comp wheel, but that means they went through the engine. Not cool.

 

[my95tsi]

How would that mean it wenty through the engine? Thats a complete worst case senerio fluke when the turbine blades actually go back up into the motor. It very rarely happens.

 

[-GSX-Falcon]

Well, in order for the comp wheel parts to hit the turbine blades it would have to be in the exhast system, hence gone through the motor. Unless it blew out the whole center section. But I see your point, i would guess if the comp wheel parts made it through the turbo they would probably get caught in the intercooler. Maybe when the comp wheel hit the turbine wheel did as well, and destroyed itself.

 

[Towlieee]

Just the exaust blades where hurt..

The intake side blades where just mangled a lil bit, but they were still intact..

The exaust blades were in the o2 housing and some were missing in the exaust system