Hey everyone,

The day was going quite good today until I lost power on the motorway all of a sudden. Mine is a jap spec and the stock boost guage is not reading past 0 and there is no power at all. After reading a few threads here I believe its the passenger turbo seized. Now the symptom of this that I can think of is my oil pump. I always check my oil and water before taking the Z on the road and them both are always fine. But while driving every now and then, the stock oil guage would show really low readings. Now I have read here that the stock oil pressure guages are poo. So I did ignore it all this time but obviously, it was reading right. Just wanted to confirm that it did mean that the oil pump wasn't doing its job properly at all times or could it be anything else due to which the oil didn't reach the turbo much??? There is no smoke what so ever..

I'm looking to get this fixed in the next few days so wanted to know what else I should get looked at regarding this. Any help and advice greatly appreciated guys..:)

Best regards,

Zee..

Stupid turbos......who hates them....seems like everyones having trouble with them

 

Its got to be a love and hate relationship with them...Love em when they do us good and when they go wrong..boy oh boy..

Well what do you know..After a couple of days of not giving the Z any attention at all..Today I decided to take it to work..On the way to work I just took it easy and had a relaxing drive there..On the way back from work, again I was taking it easy and by mistake, my eye dropped on the turbo guage and I saw the needle showing readings slightly higher than where it was when it was giving me problems..So put my foot down and WHOA....THE TURBOS ARE BACK....:)..Haven't done anything to find out whether the turbos were seized or not or where a boost leak was..Left it a couple of days and the turbos are back up and running...Took it easy anyway on the way back as still gotta find out where or what the problem occurred due to...Just thought I'd share this with you guys as you did give me advices on what to do especially Jeff TT..:)

thats good then, just be careful 'cos mine did exactly the same after sitting for a couple of weeks the turbos worked. as soon as i put my foot down it was gone again!

thats good then, just be careful 'cos mine did exactly the same after sitting for a couple of weeks the turbos worked. as soon as i put my foot down it was gone again!

 

Damn..Thats worried me a little..I did give it the foot a couple of times and the car shooted fine and then took it easy and took it home..Am off work the next couple of days so am going to give it time in finding out what the problem is or was. Hopefully its a pipe somewhere and not the turbos..Thanks for the heads up buddy..:)

Maybe a wastegate suck open before and working fine now

Maybe. Ran like a dream today (touch wood). Still gotta look into it on what it might have been..