Turbo Blade Failures? Solution?

[Stardate]

I'm a newbie to this site and am in the process of buying/trying to buy an secondhand XR6T. After reading about these turbo failures I'm beginning to worry. What sort of km's and mods have been done to the cars that are having failures. The last thing I want or need after out laying for a car is to then have to pay for another turbo.

[Stardate]

yup miss ally's did, that's what prompted me to ask bout this issue. Previous owner got the whole intake chromed, I guess this would alleviate this issue?

If its about FOD (Foreign Object Debris) going into the turbo then, having the inside of the intake chromed is just asking for trouble in my opinion. Chrome is a hard metal applied by electroplating to a parent metal. Unless this is 150% there is always a chance for that chrome to flake and find its way into the blades. If paint can do damage then chrome is sure to!!!. Just my opinion

[SavageF6]

If its about FOD (Foreign Object Debris) going into the turbo then, having the inside of the intake chromed is just asking for trouble in my opinion. Chrome is a hard metal applied by electroplating to a parent metal. Unless this is 150% there is always a chance for that chrome to flake and find its way into the blades. If paint can do damage then chrome is sure to!!!. Just my opinion

I'd get it sand blasted inside if need be, but not chromed.

I'm a newbie to this site and am in the process of buying/trying to buy an secondhand XR6T. After reading about these turbo failures I'm beginning to worry. What sort of km's and mods have been done to the cars that are having failures. The last thing I want or need after out laying for a car is to then have to pay for another turbo.

Change the oil and filter every 7,500kms with top notch synthetic oil (say Nulon 10W-40), and clean the turbo oil line filter every 15,000kms as a minumum. Doing this you'll be doing as much as one can to eliminate turbo failure due oil starvation anyway. Oh, and if you mod, get billet oil pump gears. As for debris getting through to the turbo, check the intake piping including crossover for faults or failures (say every time you change oil for example), making sure keep it all as clean as possible.

In other words, maintenance is key.

Edited 01/06/07 08:19 AM by Spruce

[StevesXR6T]

just had all my ducting off and at the ends of the crossover where the ducting attaches all the paint had stuck to the ducting and flake off when I pulled it apart. Could of very easily gone down into the turbo so I ended up pulling all the ducting out checking it out and cleaning all the paint off the ends of the crossover. So when removing the ducting be very carful.