Have You Ever Blown A Turbo?

[AngryRB]

I can remember being in my brothers car with a HKS2540 surging its head off, sounded like it was going to explode. He flogged it like that for a while and it gradually started smoking and he replaced with a hypergear. Was quite entertaining.

[Trex]

mass thread bump. anyhoo.

Scotty, what type of turbo wheel do we have in the s1 stag? They're ceramic aren't they?

Mine has been on 10psi for over 6 years, and has never been changed, and has maybe 0.5mm movement forward to backward. Being an auto it is always on boost.

I can only guess that good oil will have a big involvement in turbo life?

[scotty nm35]

Of course, good oil is critical as there are multiple restrictors in the oil feed line. A small particle can block the feed easily.

The S1 uses a 33 turbo, known to let go fairly easily when the boost is upped. I ran my m35 ceramic turbo at 19-20 psi for 6 odd months on e85 without the sky falling, but perhaps they had redesigned the shaft/ceramic?

I would say it is more dependant on how many K's were wound off it in Japan before it was shipped over.

[XRATED]

Here's something a lil different...

Before:

After:

Note: Not my car, and not actual bolt, but similar bolt.

yep been there... on my gtr... still ran an 11.4 :-)