I rebuilt the engine that was in my red TT in December. Cleaned out or
replaced all the oil and coolant feed/return lines. Only put about 3000
miles on that engine, wrecked the car, and swapped the mods over to
this new TT. Both turbos had acceptable endplay and were quiet when
we installed them (didn't swap the built engine because it turns out that
the machine shop did a bad job, so it has lower than acceptable [IMO]
compression). We didn't even remove the oil lines when we swapped
them over, just unbolted them as a whole and mounted them on the
other engine. I don't see how the lines could clog after 3k miles, but I'll
check anyway (rather be safe than sorry of course).It makes no sense to me that a turbo would boost fine and then die. I
don't know if you saw my other posts about it, but that's pretty much
how it happened. I boosted 17psi in 1st gear (second time ever boosting
after we put the turbos on this car), I let off and stopped to talk to a
friend, started driving again and the boost was gone. Thanks for answering that though. Pisses me off a little that now, after
13 months of driving a GT2530 turboed 300ZX, I've had both turbos die
on me and HKS only warranties them for one month... for people searching for info on turbo rebuilding, check out
EastCoastTurbo.com. I've had a few friends go through them for rebuild
kits and CHRA's and I'll be going through them for mine. Great prices
from what I can tell.
==========Sig Begins Here========== my favorite reason for a post being deleted:
Private Message from the Admins or Moderators
The moderation staff has deleted your message uh oh... I'm gonna put my flame suit on posted on 09/19/2004 at 12:17 AM in the General forum for the following reason: be nice to the newbie
"That's what you get living in ghetto Oak Lawn. (n/m)" - ANDY J 02:35:30 11/13/03
"he has the green orb of immunity :( (n/m)" - Spee 18:52:43 11/16/03 "we're anal like that. =) (n/m)" - ZEngineer 12:47:56 02/10/04 
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