Hey, my stock twin turbo setup is bad (eaten up & cracked). I don't have any money to replace them now (or upgrade to a single set-up). Can I bolt a plate on the port and just blank it off for now? I know I wont be breaking any sound barriers that way, but can I disable/remove the turbos & run the car without damaging it? My final goal is a single setup, and I don't really want to spend much money fixing the twin sequential set-up.

 

yep, you can just block off your exhaust ports and it'll run like a champ.



























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put a n/a exhaust block off you coolant and oil lines but it probably won't run right.

 

Look in the parts for sale section or on ebay and find a good used set. You can swap them out in a weekend. Do a search for a tutorial on here and download the shop manual for help.

If you can't afford $200 bucks for a used set of turbos you need to take a step back and look if you can really afford the car. FDs are money pits. Welcome to the club.

 

QFT

Couldn't agree more.

 

Cracks on the turbo manifold are considered normal. Unless they're creating a massive exhaust leak, you can continue to run them.

What exactly is the symptom of your turbos that has you convinced they need to be blocked off?

 

Fix it NOW , or pay MUCH more later

 

Hey you guys, should not be so quick to bash on the guy for not having extra cash at the moment, he may have had the proper funding to maintain an FD when he bought the car... I know I have lost my *** money wise in the last 6 months.

If your twins are really that bad I think that the cheapest way to get the car back to working order would be to find a good used set of stock turbos... I have found this to be harder said than done though.

You can get a non turbo header for a FC and have a custom mid pipe made and run your car with out any turbo(s).

you will need to block off the coolant and oil lines, also you need to re route some vacuum line. it will run a bit rich though.

 

David does nice work

 

i have a set of stock twins i'm not using . . . .

 

Buying a header, and everything else that you would need to run the car N/A would cost a lot more than getting a used set of turbos. A different intake would be needed too. Used turbos can be found pretty cheap, especially if he needs a set that don't have to last very long.

 

Well we still haven't heard from the guy. From what I've read, it could be as simple as seeing cracks on the turbo manifold and believing (incorrectly) that they are shot.

The best answer could be as simple as a boost leak and re-using turbos with minor manifold cracks. But there hasn't been any more information to work with.

 

What? I've seen no "bashing". Oblique and others implied that if he can't afford to fix it right, he might need to consider another car. I agree. Buying a used set of turbos is a crap-shoot, but what the OP is suggesting will probably render the car useless. This isn't the car for someone with shallow pockets. That's reality, not bashing.

 

Hey man, been looking, not finding. At least, not for your price.

 

Yeah, forgot to mention, shafts have a ton of slop. Manifolds cracked through to join the two sides out through the flange. Seems like a serious time bomb to me.

 

Cracks don't matter as long as they're not causing exhaust to leak out past the metal gaskets. A little blowby at the precontrol door isn't an urgent matter.

Slop in the shafts also doesn't matter as long as you're not burning lots of oil in your engine as a result of blowby. Can the compressor touch the housing? Can you detect any axial endplay? If not, don't sweat it.

Yes, you should probably shop for a better set of used turbos. But this problem is not likely to cause a catastrophic failure.

I must agree with the others - $300-500 for a set of used turbos isn't much to spend on this car. If that amount causes enough financial concern to want to reconfigure the whole powerplant, you should find another car.

 

Yeah, I wasn't desiring to reconfigure the powerplant & buy an n/a manifold & whatnot. I was hoping for a quick & easy fix without spending a grand and a half. But thanks to this post, a couple guys offered me some better/inexpensive used stock turbos. Hopefully it'll all work out. Now comes the engine rebuild.