Has anyone else had this happen to them. I bought this turbo brand new, its a real garrett turbo with the HTA sytle anti surge housing. So today i decided to take off my inlet to move my wastegate and found the freakin piece chilling in my INLET pipe LOL. Man im lucky my wheel is untounched. So im thinking of welding it on instead of the press fit

Pic of my turbo



and heres the freakin inside that came off






I was wondering why my car would not trap over 120mph and felt slower then usally.

 

Wow, that is crazy man. I've never seen anything like that before, you are very lucky the wheel wasn't touched!!

 

Dude your telling me, I haven't driven my car in a week cause i have been lazy maybe its a good thing. I think im just going to weld it in this time. Oh its a tight fit i dont even see how it came off cause i can barely get it in

 

wow thats crazy

 

wow that is crazy. FP doent make the housing tho its a Tial.

 

thank god for my housing. thats nuts pete. good thing you were bored today!



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looking at your sig...

how do you "spin all four hard on launch" in a FWD car?

 

converted to awd

 

It has happened to me also. Tial has a revision for it that uses pins to hold it in place. Turbosdirect.com should have a "new and improved version very soon.

 

Tial does NOT make the compressor housings.

FP is aware of the problem and is now pinning the anti surge section in place.

FP has been taking care of affected turbos for free.

I would suggest the OP give FP a call.

 

ouch. good thing it didnt touch your wheel!!!
keep us posted!

oh and do like everyone else says and give FP a call...

 

Another thread where the person posts up without any contact with the business. Why would someone do that? Just call whoever you bought it from, and have them replace the part. That's not rocket science.

 

I don't think the OP posted with any malice. I just think he was showing what happened to him, and asking if it happened to anyone else.

 

This is commen on the older housings. Contact FP or Tial the new ones are machined different.

Dont put the ported shroud on that turbo... it WILL surge like a ****.

**EDIT** I noticed the 1.8t head... will you be the 1st for that turbo on the engine?

 

I dont think the guy is saying that he got the turbo from Forced Performance, and that is not an HTA turbo. TiAl has regular 35R turbos with the same style inlet as the HTA turbos, check out their site.

Ivan: We are not fixing any ole' turbos with messed up inlets for free. Just HTA turbos that we sold that had this problem (very small group of turbos actually). This guy needs to call whomever he purchased the turbo from so they can handle it.

You are correct about there being pins now to eliminate this problem.

Boost on!
Robert Young