El Andrew Gold Donating Members 2,036 Member For: 9y 8m 13d Gender: Male Location: Canberra ACT Posted 17/05/16 11:45 PM Share Posted 17/05/16 11:45 PM If it's any consolation, once mine was done it was heaps better to drive. You dont quite realise how sick it is until you get a new one. Lots of whooshy-whoosh makes up for the dent in the hip pocket! ☺️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
common47 Member 74 Member For: 13y 11m 11d Posted 18/05/16 05:53 AM Author Share Posted 18/05/16 05:53 AM (edited) Just heard back from the mechanic. Said the whole turbo is shot, housing blah blah etc. Said to get the turbo kit put in, lines flushed etc and labour would be looking at $3000 edit: With how old the car is, I am trying to work out if it is worth it. 3K is more than what it could probably be sold for. Edited 18/05/16 05:54 AM by common47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,098 Member For: 16y 8m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 18/05/16 05:58 AM Share Posted 18/05/16 05:58 AM ouch...not sure what he might mean by "lines flushed"... there's no flushing that needs to occur with a turbo replacement (except in extreme circumstances). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
common47 Member 74 Member For: 13y 11m 11d Posted 18/05/16 06:01 AM Author Share Posted 18/05/16 06:01 AM 1 minute ago, k31th said: ouch...not sure what he might mean by "lines flushed"... there's no flushing that needs to occur with a turbo replacement (except in extreme circumstances). Unsure, he just said the whole Turbo unit is shot. Ball bearings, this and that. Said any lines would need to be flushed to make sure something hadn't gotten into the engine or some such. Either way I am looking at 3K... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,098 Member For: 16y 8m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 18/05/16 06:07 AM Share Posted 18/05/16 06:07 AM If anything got into the engine, you'd know about it and be up for a LOT more than $3k in repairs... The housings still might be in good condition... Just get him to remove the turbo and wait. you'll replace the turbo then he can re-fit it. No need to pull the entire cooler piping, inlet manifold and exhaust apart just to see if there's a few bits of metal from the turbines... you'd be able to tell if the turbines have lost some metal just by looking at them. Take the turbo once he's removed it to a turbo specialist and get them to "recondition" it (site advertiser rotormaster does this sort of thing), with possibly still only a new core, then send it back to your mechanic to do the re-fit. Or just do the remove/refit turbo labour yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
common47 Member 74 Member For: 13y 11m 11d Posted 18/05/16 06:10 AM Author Share Posted 18/05/16 06:10 AM 2 minutes ago, k31th said: If anything got into the engine, you'd know about it and be up for a LOT more than $3k in repairs... The housings still might be in good condition... Just get him to remove the turbo and wait. you'll replace the turbo then he can re-fit it. No need to pull the entire cooler piping, inlet manifold and exhaust apart just to see if there's a few bits of metal from the turbines... you'd be able to tell if the turbines have lost some metal just by looking at them. Take the turbo once he's removed it to a turbo specialist and get them to "recondition" it (site advertiser rotormaster does this sort of thing), with possibly still only a new core, then send it back to your mechanic to do the re-fit. Or just do the remove/refit turbo labour yourself. Thanks for the advice. Is there any way for the turbo to be removed and the car driven without it for awhile til I can come up with the money to replace it properly? Or does it simply not work like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,098 Member For: 16y 8m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 18/05/16 06:16 AM Share Posted 18/05/16 06:16 AM you COULD source N/A intake piping and get an exhaust place to fab up a quick pipe that joins your exhaust manifold directly to your dump pipe somehow (or take out the whole exhaust and put an N/A exhaust in from headers to tailpipe), but as you can imagine, that's a hassle and I'm not sure if the car would run very well in that sort of configuration, but my guess is it would run OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
common47 Member 74 Member For: 13y 11m 11d Posted 18/05/16 06:20 AM Author Share Posted 18/05/16 06:20 AM (edited) 9 minutes ago, k31th said: you COULD source N/A intake piping and get an exhaust place to fab up a quick pipe that joins your exhaust manifold directly to your dump pipe somehow (or take out the whole exhaust and put an N/A exhaust in from headers to tailpipe), but as you can imagine, that's a hassle and I'm not sure if the car would run very well in that sort of configuration, but my guess is it would run OK. Sounds like I would rather avoid it then. I am looking on ebay. Keep in mind I am not mechanical minded so yeah. I know to look for garrett turbo. But working out what is good and what isn't I don't know. Along with the one I was looking at being very specific in that it needs their own fitting kit?http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ford-XR6-Turbocharger-BA-BF-Typhoon-Garrett-GT35R-Turbo-gt3540-t3-t4-billet-/111979577970?hash=item1a1280c272:g:C8IAAOSwPhdVLaDk Or is this another option:http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ford-Falcon-BA-BF-XR6T-Turbo-FPV-CHRA-Cartridge-Core-For-Garrett-GT3582R-GT3540R-/201303114111?hash=item2ede99c17f:g:aZcAAOSw7FRWYlq0 Edited 18/05/16 06:26 AM by common47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,098 Member For: 16y 8m 25d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 18/05/16 06:31 AM Share Posted 18/05/16 06:31 AM From that eBay item... Bearing Type Journal bearing Cooling Type oil and water cooled The stock turbo is a ball bearing type (not "journal bearing") and it's really rare to find a journal bearing turbo that's "oil and water cooled", so I wouldn't trust this turbo. The "fittings" they are talking about are just the ones that screw into the oil and water feed/drain holes on the turbo core. If they are telling you not to use the stock fittings, then that's another red flag as it's clearly not a OEM-for-OEM replacement item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
common47 Member 74 Member For: 13y 11m 11d Posted 18/05/16 06:40 AM Author Share Posted 18/05/16 06:40 AM 7 minutes ago, k31th said: From that eBay item... Bearing Type Journal bearing Cooling Type oil and water cooled The stock turbo is a ball bearing type (not "journal bearing") and it's really rare to find a journal bearing turbo that's "oil and water cooled", so I wouldn't trust this turbo. The "fittings" they are talking about are just the ones that screw into the oil and water feed/drain holes on the turbo core. If they are telling you not to use the stock fittings, then that's another red flag as it's clearly not a OEM-for-OEM replacement item. Okay, I will steer clear of that one then. I will keep looking. There are a few others but the price seems too reasonable. $500 - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ford-Falcon-BA-BF-XR6T-Turbo-FPV-CHRA-Cartridge-Core-For-Garrett-GT3582R-GT3540R-/182119342407?hash=item2a6728a147:g:tx8AAOSwn9lXKltl $315 (very cheap) - http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ford-Falcon-BA-BF-XR6T-Turbo-FPV-CHRA-Cartridge-Core-For-Garrett-GT3582R-GT3540R-/201303114111?hash=item2ede99c17f:g:aZcAAOSw7FRWYlq0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now