Ok so here is my nightmare turbo experience…
In the beging of the year I ordered a turbo kit from PFS… As you seen in my threads before, I didn’t have the BEST experience with them… But I did infect get my product after 3 months after initial order. The kit was missing some misc things such as fittings and etc… But we managed to do with out, and pick up fittings at local stores… Now that I have the kid, I thought it would be best to get it done by a professional… Well turns out I should of done it my self , cuz it really wasn’t that bad todo. So I drop the car off the my mechanic and it takes about a good month+ for him to finish it… between bs parts missing and things not fitting right to keep on holding us back… My first intal setup was the PFS Stage 1 with ARP head studs and headgasekt to lower the compression and 440cc injectors… So the day finally rolls around where I go pick up my car, cuz its finished…
So I thought, I took the car out for a spin and not boosting the car at all since it has NOT been tuned yet. While test driving it down the street the throttle gets stuck for some weird reason and revs up to about 6k … I immetly turn off the car and turn it back on… ok back to normal … strange… So I take the car back to the mechanic… Tell him the situation he takes out for a drive , and starts to get on it a bit… never really passes 5k because the ignition kept on breaking up… well on the way back we notice oil burning… pop the hood… Waste gate is on fire because of oil burning on it… Turns out to be blowby… So that ends that night in a bad state of mind…
Next day I have my mechanic look into it… his intal thoughts it was due to a headgasekt… Speaking to others and PFS they believe it was a cracked ring land… So in turn I had him pull a piston… and of course I have a cracked ringland… Fuck now I have todo a rebuilt…
Well I did some research and deiced to buy GTE internals… I buy the GTE internals… and having my mechanic do the swap for me… So he pulls out the stock internals and hones the block inside the car… He calls me up and gives me the measurements for the bearings off the crank. So I order the bearings I thought were to be the correct ones from PFS. Week goes by have the bearings and gte internals set to go… So give them to my mechanic… he does the swap for me… some times goes by… its ready again.
OK this time I pick the car up. things seem to be pretty solid… Car is not doing any blow by… just running stupid rich… Things seem to be good… So I drive the car, limping it around for a bout a week and a half and then finally get it tuned. Once I get the car tuned I notice a knocking noise right off the bad… My tuner thought it was the turbo , the fins hitting the compressor housing… So I in turn thought it was the turbo as well.
Two days later… Turbo fails… Turbo gets pretty messed up. So I take the car over the mechanics to have it taken off and sent out to Turbonetics to get rebuilt… After about 2 weeks I finally get the turbo back… Reason to it breaking was due lack of lubrication… Ok odd, Mechanic thought it was dude the amount of stress the dp was putting on the turbo. since it didn’t fit proper… So I drop the new turbo off to my mechanic to have him swap it over. about 2 weeks go by… nothing… guy is tied up, np. so i take the car home and do it my self.
When I get the car home… I started to-do it my self… oil has metal in it… thought it was due to the turbo breaking… So we go ahead and swap out the new turbo… took about 2 days of work. Also might want to point out, DP fitted fine. There was no great amount of stress. So we decided we were going to let it run for 10-15 mins with some cheap oil to rinse it trough… While it was running it revved it up a bit and noticed the same noise as before. So im like shit… I drain the oil notice metal… cut up the filter… the filter is covered in metal…
So I deiced to drop the lower oil pan… When dropping the lower oil pan there was metal shavings in the pan… I decide to pull a rod cap and take a look at the bearings… they were shot. crank had scratching on them as well… Turns out I got the wrong sized bearings…
So here I sit hopeless just about, I pull my motor hoping I can just do another rebuilt with the same block… So I get the motor out and strip the block… Look inside the cylinder walls and notice vertical scratching from the piston skirts smacking against the walls… So here is where I sit… Do I keep on playing the game and buy a new block? or just cut my loses short and put a long block 2jz ge in it and call it a season…
Just to give you an IDEA of how much money ive spent so far
Turbo Kit: $5600
GTE Internals: $850
Bearings: $110
Tuning: $200
Masc.( Gauges/ fluids/Fittings and etc): $800
Labor: $2000
Total: $9,560
So if you guys were in my shoes… what would you do?
