While driving to our local evo meet (NTEC). My turbo finally gave up the ghost. I recieved one of the original FP Reds. I got it from a friend out of the first batch availble. I have been beating the snot out of it from day one. I ran the original feed feed line until I had to change to keep warrenty to the first gen upgraded line. My warrenty ran out and never switched to any other oil feed line.

Fast forward to the present. Driving to the local meet a Scion is acting a fool so I decide to pass. Downshift, boost to 30psi , a loud metal pang!, no boost. I coast past the Scion and continue on my way. The car did not stall. I saw no smoke. It still drives but I can not boost at all. It will simply go to 0/-1 pressure on my gauge at WOT. Now I know what it would feel like to change the car to naturally aspiration and it sucks...

Time for a rebuild I guess. Luckily I am local to FP. Unluckily I broke pretty much everything inside so the rebuild will take a month or so instead of just a few days.

I can not say enough about the turbo. I loved it. I did not notice any problems with the turbo before it gave up the ghost. Great one day totalled the next.

Well I was going to go to have my FP red rebuilt into a FP Black but I was quoted within $100 of purchasing a new Black from AWD motorsports to have it rebuilt by FP. Needless to say I would rather buy a new turbo. I ended up going with the Hta 3582r instead. I chose it for reliablity and power potential. I plan to upgrade to the Hta 86 once I build the engine.

 

Hopefully your compressor wheel is still intact and your engine didn't ingest any of it. I would take off your intercooler and clean it out anyway. Good luck.

 

ya i wouldnt be driving on it at all, no sense in risking your motor

post pics when you get it apart!

 

Looks like the FP red can take daily abuse.

My type of driving

 

+1 I would love to see this...and atleast you still passed the scion

 

I will be taking it apart over pretty soon. I will have pics up by the weekend. I have parked the car for now. Turbo made it little over 50,000 miles. I ran 30-32 on meth/pump and 28-30 on pump. I am starting to think that the DV flutter I have developed recently might have hurried it along. A vaccum line had developed a tiny tear at its connection causing the flutter I believe.

Strange that it happened at full boost and just bam. It did not whine or make any noise while driving home, or immediatly after the incident. I think the carnage should be quite entertaining...

 

that sucks man but look at the bright side. you are local. drop it off and pick it up your self to save some cash and time.

maybe time for fp black upgrade

 

Sucks hope it works out for ya.

 

Sucks to hear i had the same thing happen to me on my 8 i just threw a fp green on and called it a day

 

What type of motor oil have you been using?


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Perhaps just a seized shaft?

 

I hope so. Never had anything like this happen. I guess that sounds more realistic .

 

Just took off the intake to get an idea of what happened. The comp. wheel still spins and has tons of play in it. The scaring on the cover was obvious but the zoomed in pic tells the initial story. Hopefully sunday I will get time to pull it and take it apart to see the guts.

 

Journal bearings are toast!

 

ouch, that doesn't look too good.
50K miles I would say you got your money's worth.