Just yanked the turbo off and found the oil leak that I posted comming from under the turbo is not the gaskets at all, the oil leak is comming from the hotside of the turbo Damnit this is not what I wanted to see. Anyone have any ideas what it could be. I'm going to contact a few people in a second including bryan with bnr to see what he thinks. I will post pics in a sec. Thanks for any help yall can give.

 

here are two pics the second one shows it all.

 

Damn that sucks. Not a clue what to tell you

 

hey sonic do you know the original guy that had this turbo's name so just incase bryan askes I can tell him his name. THanks.

 

I got it from ilike2eatricers, but he bought it from someone else originally IIRC.

 

lol, oh **** this is going to suck.

 

Drop him a PM and I'm sure he'll respond, hell I think he even said so in the thread you originally made of the pics when you got it.

 

ok just pmed him and emailed bryan, I guess we'll find out what is going on.

 

holy **** i have had 2 turbos on my 88t2 leak oil from the EXACT same bolt on BOTH turbos, wtf why is this?

 

don't know man, this is the first time this is ever happend to me. I have had three turboes on this car 2 of witch where hybrids and they never leaked until I get a bnr

 

Does it just leak or blow/burn oil as well?

 

does both. My car never used to smoke and now it smokes horribly! Like I said I've had a hand full of turbos on this car and this one is just horrible, I mean it leaks out of the hotside plus so much smoking it looks like a smoke screen. At first when you start the car it's not to bad but afterwards when warmed up it gets really bad.

 

looks to me like the hot side oil seal is leaking oil.

 

Ive seen this a lot with rebuilt turbos, I had a shop in nashville build about 10 in a row with one defect or another, about 6 of them included this one. Usually they smoke out the tailpipe in conjunction with this leakage. Im told it's a "piston ring/seal" that is the culprit. I'd like to know more about it myself.

It seems the only way to get a bulletproof turbo these days is to go with a new or near OEM version, or a new in box aftermarket (such as a greddy t78, etc.). Custom assembled and rebuilt turbos never seem right, IMO.

 

damn! well I guess It's all up to bnr now to see what he is going to do, if anything at all. Well this just sucks dick! I have always wanted a bnr upgrade and this is what I get. I'm starting to see what you are saying more and more kevin. I was wondering if somthing fishy was going on with this turbo when I saw the bnr thing in the good guy bad guy section but now this just kind of reafirms my worst fears. I've heard bryan will work with you and is a pretty nice guy so hopefully he will be cool and fix it. I don't know.

 

bnr should take care of it, call Brian and i'm sure he will tell you to send back so he can inspect it. i wouldn't clean any of the oil off or anything though, makes it easier for them to diagnose.

 

so you think I should clean it? I was thinking if he would take it back just leave it exactly how it is so he could see what is going on.

 

i said not to clean it, leave it as it is.

 

before and after. the after images are only after about 20 minutes of idling two times I started my car and let idle 10 minutes a piece.

before



after




ps. sorry karak I'm a dork

 

yuck, got any pics of the turbo hot side inlet ports?

 

no not yet I have to pull the manifold off and take a look. I pull the turbo and manifold out as one, I've found this makes it much easier than pulling them off serperately. I'll unbolt it in a little while and take some pics.

 

ok here they are, they look fine to me, what does this mean? I guess no oil comming from my car.

 

yeah man, looks like a hot side seal, notice how the oil only starts after the turbine?


looks like you are running a little rich too.

 

lol, 720 primaries will do that to you all day long Yeah that sucks well I'm going to send these pics to bnr as well to see what he says. Thanks for the help karak

 

heh, np. i just wish you could have given us the results of the upgrade rather than those pics. i'm going to do my own hybrid upgrade i just hope i don't run into the same problems BNR seems to be having.