Turbo help

[KeefaGT]

Evening all i recently bought a used turbo through the club and had a full rebuild done by AdamL. Today i fitted it and noticed the turbo face that joins to the big jim is completely shot:cry: tried to fit it anyway but it sounded like a tractor.

I have recently spent about £750 on this turbo and frontpipe and have had loads of grief getting it to fit together having to customize scorpion system,hunt oil feed adapters,oil feeds.gaskets etc and today i thought i was finally there :(

Any ideas what i can do to fix this? Does this mean a new exhaust housing and rebuild will be needed or is there some other fix as i even thought about welding big jim to the turbo earlier:eek:

[D4WNO]

Have you checked the face of the downpipe also, not just turbo?

[KeefaGT]

Yeah did that first with a file and square as it was out didnt even think to check the turbo face :(

[D4WNO]

Ah sorry I got the impression you thought the turbo was out, so it's the downpipe that isn't flat?

[KeefaGT]

Unfortunately it is the turbo face thats out the downpipe is spot on now.Even tried fitting with and without a gasket.

[D4WNO]

I'm sure you could probably just flat it, Adam will be able to advise. I only asked about thw downpipe as he's had a few people with same problem and the meeting face of the pipe has been "like a banana" lol. Give him a tinkle in the morning if someone else here hasn't had the same thing with a 2nd hand turbo :)

[KeefaGT]

Yeah i did think to flatten it but was scared of getting swarfeyturd inside the nice new parts :scared:

[D4WNO]

Good point. Just call Adam in the morning, he'll be in from 8 :)

[TrixNFlix]

Are the exhaust housings not checked and skimmed accordingly when a rebuild is undertaken? Or is this an extra service? Im not trying to annoy anyone just asking incase in the future, i decide to have a second hand unit rebuilt.

[KeefaGT]

Yeah ill give him a bell thanks :)

[KeefaGT]

Are the exhaust housings not checked and skimmed accordingly when a rebuild is undertaken? Or is this an extra service? Im not trying to annoy anyone just asking incase in the future, i decide to have a second hand unit rebuilt.

Wish they were m8 i had a full rebuild so probably an extra.

[car.crash]

how do you bend a turbo housing?

[Matt@CodeRedMotorsports]

By getting it super hot?

[KeefaGT]

By getting it super hot?


:eek:

[Thundercat]

They either warp or crack, i have plenty of cracked items :(

[KeefaGT]

I did notice the housing had a crack as well but thought it was normal-ish are they expensive to replace?

[BluntyR5GTT]

brand new exhaust housings cost around £110-120

[Thundercat]

Cracks are fine if hairline size but if they start to open up then it's failure at some stage, plenty of experience with that.

[KeefaGT]

brand new exhaust housings cost around £110-120

Ouch... All in that would make it cheaper to have bought a new turbo

[Ashy]

take the studs out and give it a quick skim on a milling machine :agree: