[s-cars] Did I Damage My Turbo????

[Mihnea Cotet]

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I'm sure it is fine, 70 miles isn't enough to ruin a turbo, even with MTM
1+ IMO/IME.

Cheers,

Mihnea


At 07:24 16/09/2003 -0500, Fifield, Douglas wrote:

>Minea,
>
>I was running MTM 1+.  The first time this happened, I was 70 miles (112
>km) from home and had to limp home with the hose only partially off.  I
>can hear the turbo spool up, but I don't know if I would call it a whine
>or a whistle.
>
>If I did do some damage, what is the recommended course of action?  Wait
>until it gets noisier, or look for a rebuild kit now?
>
>TIA,
>
>Douglas
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mihnea Cotet [<mailto:mik at info.fundp.ac.be>mailto:mik at info.fundp.ac.be]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:17 AM
>To: Fifield, Douglas; 's-car-list at audifans.com'
>Subject: Re: [s-cars] Did I Damage My Turbo????
>
>Douglas, if you can't hear any whining yet, I am sure you didn't damage
>anything. What damages the most a turbo is to run it at high boost levels
>(a la MTM 1+ for instance) with a boost leak, because the turbo will be
>overspinning in order to give the boost the ECU wants to see. Otherwise you
>should be fine!
>
>HTH,
>
>Mihnea
>
><SNIP>
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