melted turbo pics

[silvawolfe]

I pulled my old turbo off today and got a huge shock!
The turbine housing was completly destroyed. It looked like a cave!
I assume years of bad gas, poor maintinence, and beating the crap out of it is the culprit.
The waste gate is siezed up and has proboly been that way for years, the housing is so badly melted you can see light on the other side, the o2 housing and the manifold are both really badly cracked. Infact if I dropped the manifold it would probobly break in two.
I put over a thousand miles on the car and never had a problem with it.(of course I was very easy on the car)
I also did a compression test and the engine is in great shape. Do you think someone just put this on to fill the space of do you think I was just plain lucky my engine isn't junk?

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[brute]

What were your EGT's like 3000*? Lol, but seriously, that sucks. I don't know how you didn't feel symptoms earlier. At least it's a good excuse to upgrade!

 

[silvawolfe]

It's off my donar car, the car had rear suspension damage as well as a bad 2nd gear so I wasn't able to push it at all other wise I could have lost 2nd and my rear suspension at the same time!
The turbo has very little shaft play, and had very little "whine" . Good thing I decided to check it!

 

[fourreGsixty3]

You must have had massive amounts of leaking going on. That looks freakin terrible. Like Derek said, perfect excuse to upgrade.

Dustin

 

[PieEyedPiper]

I'd be worried about the engine. If your turbo looks like that its certainly possible you might find more of that in other parts of your powertrain as well.

 

[dalatinromeo]

Damn those pics looks bad!!!

 

[1g_tsi_awd]

Wow. What does the engine look like, any pieces in there?

 

[yunior]

thats all I got to say

 

[MarsaGSX]

Almost same with local guy..I Changed his 14B for another bought on Ebay..and your Exhaust Inlet looks really SAME!!..but he was pro. and weld all those cracks with CO2 agregate.. he had 7cm inlet and than after welds..its like 5cm...
his WG port..SAME
but 90% of 14b are cracked....
and manis are SAME too...
someone said..its time for upgrade

 

[silvawolfe]

any ideas how this happened?
Like I said the rest of the engine looks good, and I had no drivability problems, good oil pressure, no smoking(other than when I got it, but it haad sat for 4 years), good compression, etc..

 

[Stapl3]

Looks kinda normal to me.

 

[240kid]

i still dont understand how you never heard those leaks

 

[RoasT BeeF]

Someone ran that thing pretty lean I'd say.