I'm slowly starting to collect my TII engine peice by peice. Not that it matters too much but... Is there anything I should do to my turbo while its just sitting here? I would like to clean it up some or something. Any mods or anything I can do?

 

that thing is garbola.

 

Port the wastegate for starters, and clean that bitch up. The exterior condition is terrible, I'd powdercoat the pieces personally. Check for shaft play, it should only move about a mm or so, any more and you'll want to do a rebuild.
Man looking at yours, Mine looks like brand spankin new, and I still want to get it all powdercoated and such

 

Yeah it does look like **** but its spins freely and there isnt any shaft play. I'm thinking I will take the good ol' dremel to it and polish up the exterior.

 

Yea if theres no shaft play, then break out the dremel polish kit and have fun

 

not sure if powdercoating will hold up on the compressor side, but for the record, it won't hold up on the hotside.(if that's what you meant)

 

Really? I would have thought powder coating the hot side would have lasted. Learn something new everyday. I was going to PC mine :P.

Thanks

 

ever seen a hot side after boosting? gets a beautiful orange glow about it, almost as though it was naturally producing it...

you should be using the heat shield so who cares what the turbo looks like since you can't see it anyways. those of you who toss the tins for it so you can gaze upon the turbo, look up the term 'heat soak'.

personally, i'd just clean up the cold side with some solvent, port the turbo intake runners and port the wastegate and call it a day.

 

Double post...

 

Ya know... Alotta times searching just brings up more questions for me... and doesn't anwser the question for me...

Porting the intake runners? What exactly would I be doing here?

 

http://fc3spro.com/TECH/HOWTO/TURBINEPORT/tport.html

 

that thing looks like it was on fire.

 

pretty damn close. more the equivalent of putting it in a furnace.

 

Even closer; more the equivalent of having a furnace inside of it