Kando Dynamics Turbo

[battery]

Mines still going strong, 3 years later. What was the oil feed setup like? did you have it installed vertical?

[jet2nv]

I've noticed the mast 12 months have been producing Shit ones lol lines were done correctly

[methz]

must be doing something wrong with all 3, cause mines over 2yrs old on e85 22psi thrashed all the time at car events still good as day I bought it.

[Lithium]

Weird - over the last year or so we've started using them here and they've been all going strong!

[SimonR32]

My old car has finally killed a motor but the turbo is still going strong nearly 4 years later.

If the same person is having the same problems it may be an install/ set up error?

[jet2nv]

I should of said 3 different cars 3 different people and 3 different workshops all where on e85

Its suspected that 360 thrust bearings were never used not sure why tho

[jet2nv]

Warranty is the biggest issue here having to pay $160 for postage and then another $160 if u don't want your turbo to be abandoned in case the workshop in Taiwan is closed then the most likely chance of paying a further $350 when they decide not to warrant the warranty. I think taos ss3 makes more power and response then these anyway and is in Australia. Well around around the corner for me, which makes everything everything that much easier and safer just a word of warning for anyone wanting to get one

[Lithium]

Always worth updating the thread - interesting to hear, though strange it's contrary to years of use by people here! A mate had to return something along the line too, when they supplied an 18G instead of a 16G - and they sorted him out quickly... the customer service for folks I know overall hasn't been bad, did they give a reason as to why they didn't honour the warranty?

In some cases I would potentially take Hypergear more seriously as an option if I lived in Oz too, but in NZ Kando Dynamics makes more sense cost wise and in terms of knowing what you are going to get.

[Dale FZ1]

The comments seem to indicate that warranty has been honoured in each instance - correct?

Consumer having to wear the $160 shipping cost is not so good but if Kando have rebuilt/repaired at their cost I feel it's hard to have a gripe.

360 degree thrust bearings have been the way to upgrade turbo reliability since Adam was a boy - I seem to recall there is some sort of option along those lines available from Kinugawa?

[jet2nv]

No they aren't repairing them they are saying that to much boost has been run. Dyno sheets where sent to prove boost max was 20psi they are wanting a extra $350 per turbo if we want them back

[Lithium]

Out of curiosity - are these cars running blow off valves?

[jet2nv]

Sure are

[Lithium]

Good good Occurred to me recently a lot of people seem to be getting failures over there and I was shocked to find "no BOV" was a trend in Oz. AFAIK (could be wrong?) thrust bearings get hammered when you get compressor surge, which would be massive without a BOV.

[34GeeTeeTee]

Good good Occurred to me recently a lot of people seem to be getting failures over there and I was shocked to find "no BOV" was a trend in Oz. AFAIK (could be wrong?) thrust bearings get hammered when you get compressor surge, which would be massive without a BOV.

A lot of people getting failures? Or people getting a lot of failures?

[GTScotT]

A lot of people getting failures? Or people getting a lot of failures?

A few people getting lots of failures.

Not kando specific either.

[jet2nv]

Heard of 2 people today having exactly the same problems with a td06. Seems like the first few batches at at the start where made perfectly then once his name got bigger the quality control has gone down hill. Happens a lot with a lot of big brand stuff

[boostn0199]

Have you shown tao one of the failed turbos and seen what he makes of it?

[jet2nv]

not yet but i will be taking another t67 i got today to him to suss it out and pro get it rebuilt using his core

[hypergear]

I get to work on them often, the shaft and bearing below came off a Kando T67 sent in last week, like I've mentioned earlier. This issue happens to T67 or those larger billet L2 based cores working with Rb25det engines on high boost. When compressor out flows turbine creating way too much back pressure.

[Lithium]

That's interesting. Any theory on why SimonR32 (first post: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/347726-kando-dynamics-turbo/) has been running the T67 25G for years without issues?

Thanks for providing input - I would definitely like to know if reliability has changed or is worse than previously evidenced from this thread, as I definitely don't want to be recommending a product which is going to cause people issues. In saying that, again I'm not like to recommend mismatched turbos to people anyway... so the likes of a TD05-16G6/TD06SL2-20G/TD06-25G should be comparatively safe?