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!

Bob..

Speedlimit - Site Administrator


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.

 

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

 

Have had my red for about 12K miles. Always on pumpgas 25PSI. Still going strong.

 

So far 8 for no failure. Wondering where all these failing reds and blacks are at...

 

I currently own:

fp3052
fp3586
fpBlack


All abused
All still going strong

John-

 

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)

 

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)

 

FP Green, 40,000 miles, and I flog it. No Failure.

 

New 80mm FP Red with ugpraded oil lines, 8k miles so far. No issues at all whatsoever.

 

Im getting the black soon. I will update later

 

Fp red running the first ver. ss feed line from the head. Running 30psi from day one. Still spinning. I have had it over a year.

 

wow that sucks lol.

 

i have not heard of any hta green or fp black failures as of yet mostly fp reds early version.

 

I'd wonder if the turbo was just the canary in the coal mine -- it was more sensitive to the oil contamination than your bearings, but they both failed very close to one another...

 

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.