Well, I have had a RRM turbo in my car now for about a month and a half and have had nothing but problem after problem with the oil return line. Tonight my car was smoking from under the hood again, well when i opened the hood i found a present, there was a fire under my hood. Alot of the heat wrap caught on fire and burned and along with the heat wrap a ton of other stuff was burnt. not to mention oil was everywhere. I need to know what to do, I cant drive anywhere because somehow the throttle cable is stuck and I can't even press the pedal down anymore. Well, its not like i would want to drive it because it would prolly blow up on me. If anyone could give me some help that would be great. I will post a pic of the engine bay tomorrow or monday when i get a chance to go to my friends house whos driveway it is in. Thanks in advance for any help

 

some people have had their throttle cable melt you should do a search on that.. i've heard of up to 2-3 people who have had engine bay heat problems.. i forget who.. i'll do a search later and pm you the info

 

thanks for the help but the throttle cable is not the only thing that is melted. I took a look at the engine today during the day so i could see how bad it really was and DAMN it is bad. i forgot to take a picture so i should get one posted in the next day or so. If anyone from minnesota knows of a good shop that i could take my car to that would be great.

 

did you get the install done by someone or you did it yourself? get a turbo wrap to cut down the heat produced by the turbo

 

Sorry to hear about your car. But your pistons could possibily be melted if you see oil everywhere. Same thing happened to me. If you try to start your car and see white smoke coming out of the exhaust most likely your two of your pistons are gone. My car did not move so I had to call a tow truck. I attached a picture of the pistons that melted. RRM turbos are great but you should follow what Rob tells you to do I did not and this is what happened. I overboosted and put in synthetic oil and bye bye engine.

 

Threads like these still scare me about RRMs turbo setup.

 

yea but the only explanation is that the install was done wrong, its not RRM's turbo kit, its whoever installed it

 

i agree with tristar racing.. since i finally have enough to buy the RRM kit.. i don't know if i want to anymore.. i've been hearing "some" bad things about the set up.. fitment problems.. engine bay overheating.. turbo running lean.. it makes me want to just keep my car stock..

 

TURBOit, I agree the install might be screwed up, but it can just as easily be said that the setup is suspect. This is not the first car to blow up running the turbo kit. I dont blame RRM, and I dont blame the guy who installed it. I just think saying it has to be installation error is bs. It wasnt install error in NTran999's case, or Chris's (kontradiction) case, etc.

Just remember folks, the engine in the Lancer was not made to be turbo charged. If you want to play with boost, be prepared to be burned. It is not an exact science. Sorry bout your car Waggi.

 

i know, my in both cases they used oil they shouldnt have and ntrans boosted higher than he should have, road race tells you flat out what tod , and if you listen to them nothign will go wrong, trust me, my engines been apart plenty of times, new pistons are going in, but it was install/human error, not the kit, but yes, precautions have to be taken, and things can happen, but it is wroth it in the end, look at all the satisfied customers

 

If nothing will go wrong if you install the kit to RRM's instructions, why is there no warrenty? Its not as simple as that, your boosting an engine that was never meant to see boost, and no matter what precautions are taken things can still go wrong.

In no way do I think RRM should offer a warrenty, and I am not trying to say RRMs kits are bad. Im just stating its not an exact science....

 

You said it best. Thats why I am still weary about dropping the turbo in my car, I drive it everyday. I dont want to make my car that wasnt supposed to be turbocharged or supercharged what it isn't supposed to be. I dont know though, sadly enough, it's putting a lot of stress on our weak little engines =/. I can't take the gamble on putting a 4k dollar turbo in my car, with the chance of blowing a motor. I hate seeing stories like these though. I think RRM is great and all of their products and services. It's just a fear I have, whenever I do something to my car, something always breaks because of it. No matter how big or small it is, LOL, kind of funny. I have plenty of time to think about what I want to do though.

 

My buddy and I are the ones that installed the turbo. we spent a couple days working on it just to make sure everything was just right. we checked everything at least 3 times before i first started the car after the install. since then i have just constantly had oil issues. My car just keeps leaking oil and buring it alot. as for the heat wrap when i got the kit the pipes were already wraped and ironicly enough thats where the largest part of the fire was onder my hood. I hope the pistons are shot like Ntran had happen. Now that i read some of these posts again I wonder if we put synthetic in. Its been a while since the kit was installed so i don't even remember. What would the synthetic do? My plan is to find a shop somewhere here in minnesota to have my car towed to and check out and fixed. I hsould be able to post a pic of the engine tomorrow if i get a chance. As for the turbo set-up itself it is great except for the oil return line. it should be just one line not a tube from the turbo to a coolent hose and from that to the oil pan. Thanks for everyones help.

 

the oil line to a coolant hose? im nto sure if thats right, i know your supposed to drill the oil pan for the return line itself, and my hsoe is steel braided and i dont think it would melt easily, i just dont understand how the heat wrap BELOW the turbo melted as a result of your oil line, the oil line shoudl be above the turbo and goign towards the back alogn the left side

 

its the oil return line that i was talking about. i too have a steel braided line going to the trubo but on the return line i have had oil leaking and i think that oil became saturated on the heat wrap. when it got hot enough i think it just started up and boom fire