Basicly i bought a hi spec T25 hybrid turbo for my uno turbo from Essex Turbos about a year ago, it was said the turbo could run over 200bhp easily and up to 1.9 bar of boost. Many of my mates are running 200bhp+ on their punto GTs with this same turbo in fact.
Now i've had my car set up to run 1.4 bar boost and its been fine for the last year but i was using a standard intercooler and recently i changed this for a large front mounted intercooler to get more boost out of the turbo. On doing this something went seriously wrong, the car would not boost more than 1bar and loads of smoke came out the exhaust and i mean LOADs. So much so that my oil cap even came off and covered the engine in oil making me think i had melted a piston or my piston rings were worn or even blown the head gasket.
Did a compression test and all 4 cylinders all seem fine. Topped up the oil and strangely enough the engines running fine and there is hardly any smoke on idle but it does smoke a little blue smoke on load now when the cars moving. I've discovered that one of the blades on my compressor wheel on the turbos been damaged its bent and now its screaming when you drive the car and very laggy. I put some of the lag down to having a larger intercooler but also down to the turbo being damaged now. My question is what could have caused this and secondly Essex Turbos is saying that my warranty will not cover me for the damage done to the turbo. They've said they can repair it at a cost of £450 which is pretty much how it costs for a new hybrid turbo of this sort of spec anyway. How ridiculous can you get, i feel like they've cheated me the warranty they've given me isn't worth the paper its written on as this shouldnt have happened in the first place as these turbos are meant to run 200bhp or more all day long. What should i do??????
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Now i've had my car set up to run 1.4 bar boost and its been fine for the last year but i was using a standard intercooler and recently i changed this for a large front mounted intercooler to get more boost out of the turbo. On doing this something went seriously wrong, the car would not boost more than 1bar and loads of smoke came out the exhaust and i mean LOADs. So much so that my oil cap even came off and covered the engine in oil making me think i had melted a piston or my piston rings were worn or even blown the head gasket.
Did a compression test and all 4 cylinders all seem fine. Topped up the oil and strangely enough the engines running fine and there is hardly any smoke on idle but it does smoke a little blue smoke on load now when the cars moving. I've discovered that one of the blades on my compressor wheel on the turbos been damaged its bent and now its screaming when you drive the car and very laggy. I put some of the lag down to having a larger intercooler but also down to the turbo being damaged now. My question is what could have caused this and secondly Essex Turbos is saying that my warranty will not cover me for the damage done to the turbo. They've said they can repair it at a cost of £450 which is pretty much how it costs for a new hybrid turbo of this sort of spec anyway. How ridiculous can you get, i feel like they've cheated me the warranty they've given me isn't worth the paper its written on as this shouldnt have happened in the first place as these turbos are meant to run 200bhp or more all day long. What should i do??????
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