[s-cars] Fried my turbo

[Marc Gorelick]

I was on the throttle pretty hard trying to pass someone in a merge lane 
when I felt the car lurch and suddenly I had no boost. Quickly I thought 
through my list of common UrS failures and hoped that the problem was 
simply the hose popping off the connector on the ECU, a simple and free 
fix to the problem.

No such luck.

Once I got the car home and determined that the hose hadn't come off, I 
popped the hood and had a look (and listen) around. I can hear what I 
think is the failed bearing in the turbocharger. It's not a good sound. 
Also, although I hadn't noticed while I was driving the car, it's 
smoking a bit as well.

It all seems to add up to a new turbo for me.

Patient is a '93 with ~169k miles,  MTM+1 and 1.9 bar WG spring.

Anyone have a spare stock 'charger sitting around after an RS2 upgrade? 
If so...let me know before I have to buy new. I am, for the moment, too 
poor  for the slippery slope so no RS2 upgrades for me yet. :-(

Marc in Detroit with the unpimped //S4