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When you do your rocker cover gasket, just ensure everything is scrupulously clean and dry.

Clean the groove that the seal sits in with thinners or similar, and same with the sealing surface on the head. I'm assuming the seal may sometimes drop out of the groove as you are placing the cover back in position and not be noticed; the less slippery everything is, the less chance of it happening.

Hey guys,

Well today Jetwreck came down from Sydney and helped (ie: did most of everything) with the turbo removal.

Let me just say - engine out would be so much easier... It took us a solid 7 hours.

Anyway, it appears there was an oil starvation issue to the turbo, which doesn't have much shaft play at all but the bearing is definitely shagged. Interestingly though, all the ceramic vanes are still attached.

So turbo is off to Hypergear for a rebuild and I'll be doing the roacker cover gasket while that's happening.

On another note, I have an aftermarket atmo venting Blitz BOV on the car. I hate the sound and attention so if anyone has a spare working factory BOV I will gladly straight swap with you provided you have the piping to the hard pipe at the front of the engine as well. Let me know if you want a BOV!

Cheers,

Sean

Edited by simply_mighty

Hey guys,

Well today Jetwreck came down from Sydney and helped (ie: did most of everything) with the turbo removal.

Let me just say - engine out would be so much easier... It took us a solid 7 hours.

Anyway, it appears there was an oil starvation issue to the turbo, which doesn't have much shaft play at all but the bearing is definitely shagged. Interestingly though, all the ceramic vanes are still attached.

So turbo is off to Hypergear for a rebuild and I'll be doing the roacker cover gasket while that's happening.

On another note, I have an aftermarket atmo venting Blitz BOV on the car. I hate the sound and attention so if anyone has a spare working factory BOV I will gladly straight swap with you provided you have the piping to the hard pipe at the front of the engine as well. Let me know if you want a BOV!

Cheers,

Sean

7 hours lol im assuming those heat shields wont be going back on..

get some 3m sticky shield! way better!

7 hours lol im assuming those heat shields wont be going back on..

get some 3m sticky shield! way better!

Heatshields were not really the problem....problem was 2 of the bolts on the dump would not crack...oh and one bolt on the heatshield.....everything else went along pretty well.

and I am pretty sure one of the heatshields wont be going on.

Heatshields were not really the problem....problem was 2 of the bolts on the dump would not crack...oh and one bolt on the heatshield.....everything else went along pretty well.

and I am pretty sure one of the heatshields wont be going on.

are you gonne use new studs??

i honestly reccomend it.. I used SS studs with copper washers.. they dont bind up together at all, but they're not hard to get off either for future reference...

worth the money

are you gonne use new studs??

i honestly reccomend it.. I used SS studs with copper washers.. they dont bind up together at all, but they're not hard to get off either for future reference...

worth the money

Aaron this will be up to the owner of the car....while I agree with you I doubt the turbo will be taken off again as he is getting his turbo done by Hypergear not some cheap dodgy guy! whistling.gif

yeh well advice is public isnt it..

cheap? no

dodgy? yess.

i wish i could ruin his name on here.

hyper gear said they would put a larger wastegate on mine for cheap.

coming off again in july annual leave lol im sick of doing it.

yeh well advice is public isnt it..

cheap? no

dodgy? yess.

i wish i could ruin his name on here.

hyper gear said they would put a larger wastegate on mine for cheap.

coming off again in july annual leave lol im sick of doing it.

slack arse.....come on buddy....it's only 2 hours work apparently!!! :P

Bet you wish you had paid extra and gone for the Precision turbo now!thumbsup.gif

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slack arse.....come on buddy....it's only 2 hours work apparently!!! :P

Bet you wish you had paid extra and gone for the Precision turbo now!thumbsup.gif

i honestly? i wish i went the GT core like yours.. if it turns out that this boost issue isnt fixable(which i doubt) i think im gonna hunt for a stock and send it to precision for the gt core.

i honestly? i wish i went the GT core like yours.. if it turns out that this boost issue isnt fixable(which i doubt) i think im gonna hunt for a stock and send it to precision for the gt core.

I know of a spare that might be available soonthumbsup.gif........one of the guy's from club AWESOME might have one!

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