spyderdrifter
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- Jul 11, 2009
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Colorado
In the last picture you posted, the blades you can see is the turbine blades I was talking about. Seems like you got a good turbo, if its in good shape
It seems to be in good shape to me. There's no shaft play and the turbine spins quite smooth. Before my coolant issue came up, I got on the gas a couple times (only a couple because of bad front and rear motor mounts) and it spooled really well. During the tear down, I found out that the turbo was only held on by 1 of the 4 bolts. The other 3 were just sitting in their holes and held in place by the heat shield. Kinda scary to wonder what could have happened if I didn't do this work to the car.

kinda sleeper street turbo.. the housings are PTE 5031RE No idea what trim it is, or anything like that, so any information would be sweet!