Guys I have a problem. I bought a used IX turbo but only the CHRA and compressor housing since I already have a 10.5 hotside. The price at the time was good, so I bought it but due to UPS stupidity I received the turbo with a broken exhaust wheel. It's semi-hard enough to find IX turbos, so I'd rather rebuild it instead of UPS screwing me out of the insurance money and still leave me without a turbo. Now I have 2 options for rebuilding it...either getting a used 8 exhaust wheel and swapping it in or buy a brand new wheel for $200. Either way I think the new/old wheel has to be balanced to the compressor wheel, correct? I see 2 grind spots on the compressor wheel's nut (as well as on the exhaust wheel), so I'm pretty sure that the entire CHRA is balanced as one piece. Where would a good place be to send it out and have rebalanced, and what's the going rate these days? Kinda sucks to have such a low mileage turbo end up costing me way more than I expected.

 

Looks like your in PA so why not just go to blouch.

 

Well how much money ya willing to spend and do you need it right away ? Because you do have a few options seeing if your sending it out mine as well do it right and just upgrade to any of the new stock frame turbos out there. just my own 2 cents.

 

BBK or red dude, get it done By the time you buy a new wheel, pay for disassembly/reassembly, you might as well just go 'big' and have something to really brag about!

I love my IX turbo, but if something ever happens to it, it's getting upgraded, not 'repaired'

 

ForcedPerformance send to them upgrade to a FP RED or go 35R

 

Yep send it to CBRD or FP for "zee treatment".

What you will get back in the mail will cause painful perma-grins all the way

 

This is what I would do...

 

yepper,

call blouch turbo,

ask for mike

717 865-3276

say cbrd referred you.

cb

 

I called them up earlier today at work, nice guys and I'm going to go with them. I might as well just buy the new wheel and let them balance it from scratch, probably better in the long run anyway to avoid bearing clearance problems. Thanks! If I had the money within the next few weeks I'd go for the full BBK upgrade, but I really don't see that happening just yet. Times are tough.