Im searching for a replacement turbo and I'm a little strapped for cash and I was wondering if anyone heard of an emotor turbo replacement from eBay? It's only 300 dollars new and the seller seems legit but I don't want to buy crap and waste my money.

 

better to find a used turbo than to go with one you know nothing about.

 

Yea that's what I figured but I was just hoping someone had some input on them

 

300 for a BNIB turbo from Ebay?!?!

Emotor seems to be a subsidiary of EMUSA.......which makes some of the most heinous and unreliable parts this side of the Atlantic. I bought an intercooler as an experiment and the fin density was not consistent within the core, still had aluminum welding slag inside the intercooler (which I easy came off with minor prodding on the out........so a straight unfiltered path to your valves and combustion chamber, half the fins were laid on top of each other (so major backpressure issues), etc etc etc. And to top it off, it had several incomplete welds which would wreak havoc in terms of boost leaks. And this is from a simple bar and plat intercooler that any monkey could weld up and get "right".

But step back and think for a moment. A factory turbo is a only a few hundred more used, it has gone through severe reliability and stress test (including burst tests for instance), has the proper R&D done to it, etc etc etc. Do you think an Ebay turbo for 300 has done the same??

As recommended, buy a used factory turbo and be done with it.

Some times saving a little money will end up costing you 3-8 times as much in the end.

 

you can get a good used OEM turbo for $300-$400 or take your turbo to a local shop that does diesel stuff and get it rebuilt.

 

Well I'm for sure not wasting my money on that eBay turbo and my turbo is fine it's the hot side that is messed up. I was upgrading my o2 housing and exhaust manifold and 3 bolts broke off in the process and the machine shop I took it to couldn't drill the bolts out of the holes.

 

Find a new machine shop. The machine shop I use has never had issue getting bolts out and putting in threaded inserts.

 

That's what I was thinking but the machine shop I took it to said they burned through a few drill bits and got nowhere with the bolts

 

I sure hope they are not using standard bits. If so, then you need to go to a competent machine shop.....


Why can't you just a stud extractor and do it yourself? Apart from inconel, it really isn't rocket science

 

They're doing it wrong. I've drilled out several of those with a cordless screw gun/drill.


Stud extractors don't work when the bolt galled up and broke off. You basically have to drill to the point you can brake the bolt up with hammer and chisel, then drill the hole out oversized and put a helicoil in.

 

Ok, whatever tool he uses........the point of my post is: He can do it himself. I have done it several different ways as there are many ways to tackle this problem that does NOT include an incompetent machine shop. This includes just constantly sizing a center hole large enough to get a bolt extractor to grab the remaining material and allowing to unthread the bolt. This way, it saves me the hassle of having to drill a larger hole and helicoil it.

Speaking of which.....Manderson, an Evo 8 turbo just got posted to the classifieds. Seems a tad expensive at that mileage (you can talk him down I am sure), but it's a direct replacement.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sa...o-8-turbo.html

 

I bought a bolt extractor kit and tried it myself and got nowhere on the bolts. I spent a good 30 min on one bolt and didn't make a hole and I think I burnt up my bits.