Subject	Glad you posted this (n/m)
Posted by	OverZealous (CT) on August 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM
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In Reply To	Anyone here experience Sport 550 failure? posted by aliaZ on August 28, 2013 at 07:13 PM
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Follow Ups	Anyone here experience Sport 550 failure? - aliaZ 19:13:00 08/28/13 Does it have an "off-the-shelf" Garrett variant? - LJZTT 19:38:58 08/28/13 Its the Garrett 2854 turbo - ZXoltan 20:05:13 08/28/13 same here, I was thinking 550bb or whatever turbo is used - LJZTT 07:29:03 08/29/13 Did Greg indicate a common mode of failure among them? (n/m) - ZXoltan 20:07:58 08/28/13 no, but the failed ones I have seen are all leaking oil - aliaZ 21:20:20 08/28/13 Bearing failure, but also lots people without issues. (n/m) - Greg D. (Specialty-Z) 20:11:00 08/29/13 I know of at least one that failed due to..... - Greg D. (Specialty-Z) 20:47:02 08/29/13 I believe my 530's are doing the same thing.. - Stanky 01:44:54 08/29/13 They share the same housing design --- Hmmm... - ZXoltan 08:58:27 08/29/13 With all the breather mods available today, it seems that - MixManMash 09:10:29 08/29/13 Unless you dont have/ dont want bigger pipes ;-) (n/m) - ZXoltan 09:14:50 08/29/13 if you have same breather mods on a 530 car , it will spool - ztunerz 14:51:26 08/29/13 Not from what I have seen. Marginal difference. (n/m) - MixManMash 15:15:09 08/29/13 Off topic but how do you like your iridium plugs? - ChaseGrayTT 17:54:38 08/29/13 Had them for about 5000 miles. Like them. Work well. (n/m) - MixManMash 21:35:21 08/29/13 I have lots of data that shows differently...... - Greg D. (Specialty-Z) 20:07:48 08/29/13 Berry interesting. I have a e85 question for you that I will - ztunerz 21:02:52 08/29/13 Do you have any partial throttle dyno charts? - michaell32 (FL) 21:09:40 08/29/13 if i didn't already have jwt550bb turbos, i would get the - vulcanrush 09:14:33 08/29/13 I think you should buy the GTX and give me the old, worn out - ZXoltan 16:14:18 08/29/13 I think he should put his turbo kit on the g35 first :) (n/m) - ztunerz 19:10:52 08/29/13 I have :-( - Cutting Z Edge 03:32:57 08/29/13 Disheartening, I have these sitting in my motor now. - Jkova300z 06:28:19 08/29/13 Not sure. I do drive my car hard though. - Cutting Z Edge 10:02:02 08/29/13 Could just the clocking a BB turbo cause oil to leak? - Jkova300z 12:27:44 08/29/13 The oil leak didn't bother me much. - Cutting Z Edge 12:51:32 08/29/13 Did you blow smoke at the three month point out the exhaust? - Jkova300z 17:16:59 08/29/13 Just oil accumulating. - Cutting Z Edge 20:24:50 08/29/13 Ok.These had proper oil lines and proper draining returns? - Jkova300z 20:46:25 08/29/13 no (n/m) - ztunerz 14:50:01 08/29/13 Have you observed this issue Harry? (n/m) - ZXoltan 16:13:28 08/29/13 Not yet, thank god. (n/m) - ztunerz 19:09:49 08/29/13 Glad you posted this (n/m) - OverZealous (CT) 14:43:33 08/29/13 I do not hear of turbo failure that often with BB turbos ... - Greg D. (Specialty-Z) 20:18:48 08/29/13
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