View Poll Results: Has your turbo failed?
FP Black failed
11
4.45%
FP Red Failed
36
14.57%
FP Green Failed
14
5.67%
No Failures
187
75.71%
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Has your FP Turbo failed?
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Has your FP Turbo failed?
Hey everyone, I'm closing this thread. An anonymous poll concerning the failure of a specific product is a serious matter. It is neither fair to the vendor/manufacturer nor our members as there is little value in the data. Not all polls need to be public, however, technical subjects involving failure rates should be open and public. That provides both members and vendors an opportunity to judge the quality of the votes and question the voters as to specifics. If the original poster would like to re-open this discussion with a poll, I will insist it be public. Thanks!
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With all this recent talk of how the FP series of stock framed turbos have still been seeing failures I want to get a poll going for how many of you have had one fail, with the upgraded lines/filter as it applies. Please specify what the failure was and how long it happened after you got it, boost levels, etc.. IF no failure, could you specify how long you have been running it as well.
Maybe this will clear a few things up for those of us deciding on our turbo future.
Bob..
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With all this recent talk of how the FP series of stock framed turbos have still been seeing failures I want to get a poll going for how many of you have had one fail, with the upgraded lines/filter as it applies. Please specify what the failure was and how long it happened after you got it, boost levels, etc.. IF no failure, could you specify how long you have been running it as well.
Maybe this will clear a few things up for those of us deciding on our turbo future.
Last edited by Speedlimit; Apr 19, 2010 at 09:33 AM.
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I have an Old School Green so I am not sure if my experiences would be of interest or not. In my case i have abused the heck out of this little Greeen for almost 50,000 miles. I do however change the synthetic oil every 2500 miles.
Mine has been abused by running extremely high shaft speeds due to a 9.0 turbine housing and fairly high levels of WG spring pressure. I do let the oil cool down before shutting off the engine though. I have had no problems with the turbo whatsoever. Thanks FP
Mine has been abused by running extremely high shaft speeds due to a 9.0 turbine housing and fairly high levels of WG spring pressure. I do let the oil cool down before shutting off the engine though. I have had no problems with the turbo whatsoever. Thanks FP
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My Red failed after 50 miles. I had stock evo 9 oil lines. The cold side wheel made contact with the housing (dont know what caused it). FP said there might have been dirt in the oil or something. 30psi. once i got it repaird i ran their oil lines, everything was ok for about another 50 miles when the engine exploded (not fp's fault)
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Ive used the FP GREEN , FP RED 80mm
on the green = 0 problems at 26psi on pump ( oem evo oil lines )
on the red = 0 problems im at 28 psi on pump , 35psi on race gas (fp oil lines)
on the green = 0 problems at 26psi on pump ( oem evo oil lines )
on the red = 0 problems im at 28 psi on pump , 35psi on race gas (fp oil lines)
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My Red failed after 50 miles. I had stock evo 9 oil lines. The cold side wheel made contact with the housing (dont know what caused it). FP said there might have been dirt in the oil or something. 30psi. once i got it repaird i ran their oil lines, everything was ok for about another 50 miles when the engine exploded (not fp's fault)
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My Red failed after 50 miles. I had stock evo 9 oil lines. The cold side wheel made contact with the housing (dont know what caused it). FP said there might have been dirt in the oil or something. 30psi. once i got it repaird i ran their oil lines, everything was ok for about another 50 miles when the engine exploded (not fp's fault)
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My fp red failed when I had the the previous oil line kit. My fp red turbo was leaking beacause of blown seals due to lack of oil pressure.
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