TurboBlue
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- Oct 25, 2002
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Canton,
Connecticut
I know this sounds like a dumb question, so I guess I'm just going to explain the whole situation. I already got rid of the turbo and upgraded, so this is really just for closure...
Over the winter I did some work to my car, random stuff, including an e-manage install. I was going to try and tune my car better with the 16g on it. One cold day, I backed my car out (stays at work in the shop), and it was smoking something fierce out of the tailpipe. Next day, I pull the intake tube off to replace the ground wire from the tranny to inner fender, and it is filled with oil, as is my compressor housing. I assume the seal blew in the turbo and started saving for the 50 Trim. I sold the turbo to a local DSM'er, who later told me the turbo was fine. He then continued to say that something must have gone in the motor for that to happen, because the turbo, according to him, was fine.
Now my question. I since put a MLS head gasket on the car. The top of the pistons were dry, the back of the exhaust valves were dry. So in my mind, there couldn't have been anything wrong with the motor, or else there would have been oil in those two spots to fill my turbo up.
Is it possible that due to the cold weather, the oil pressure was really high (grabbed from the head with a goodridge stainless line), and pushed the seal to the side, filling the turbo. And then once I shut the car off, the seal went back into place? Seems crazy, I know. I'm just trying to figure this whole thing out. Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for the info. Heres what the turbo looked like....
Over the winter I did some work to my car, random stuff, including an e-manage install. I was going to try and tune my car better with the 16g on it. One cold day, I backed my car out (stays at work in the shop), and it was smoking something fierce out of the tailpipe. Next day, I pull the intake tube off to replace the ground wire from the tranny to inner fender, and it is filled with oil, as is my compressor housing. I assume the seal blew in the turbo and started saving for the 50 Trim. I sold the turbo to a local DSM'er, who later told me the turbo was fine. He then continued to say that something must have gone in the motor for that to happen, because the turbo, according to him, was fine.
Now my question. I since put a MLS head gasket on the car. The top of the pistons were dry, the back of the exhaust valves were dry. So in my mind, there couldn't have been anything wrong with the motor, or else there would have been oil in those two spots to fill my turbo up.
Is it possible that due to the cold weather, the oil pressure was really high (grabbed from the head with a goodridge stainless line), and pushed the seal to the side, filling the turbo. And then once I shut the car off, the seal went back into place? Seems crazy, I know. I'm just trying to figure this whole thing out. Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for the info. Heres what the turbo looked like....
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