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Turbos rebuilt, engine re fitted and running, nothings come flying out the exhaust yet, MOT tomorrow and then its off for a proper run and 16psi, that should show up any problems, will post up some more pics after JAE, Its nice to have it running again.

Did you use any power tools on that or is it all done by hand, it took me long enough to get a bit of a shine on the cas, how many hours did you put into the plenum.

Cant begin to think what its like for you and your family at the moment. Thoughts and prayers are with you all.

Yup spec of Zed would be good

I like mine loud, but it does grind a bit on long journeys

Its the driver side turbo that's looking a bit dry, the passenger side fed from the pressure switch looks fine, I'm going to see if I can get them off and make sure they not blocked completely, no kinks or twists in the pipes that I can see.

Great :wack:

Fingers crossed then:D, they are old turbos and have had a very hard life in the last year, its a small wonder they aint imploded long before now

Drivers side turbo off and stripped and not much better than the other side notice both bolts that snapped are in same location Thrust bearing looking a bit scorched, its well worn too Heat shield good coating of carbon and burnt crap Zaust wheel, the oil seal has a lot of carbon in its groove Zaust wheel end bearing scored Zaust housings getting drilled and tapped, rebuild kits turned up, Melett very nice to deal with and sorted out the courier, who delivered them to the wrong door. Going to remove oil lines from the block as drivers side looks a little on the dry side compared to the other side, are vg's prone to problems with oil delivery to turbo's ????

Mine got 7 miles to make sure nothing was going to drop off, jump off, then it was off to jae and normal driving, everything is running on a film of oil, if its not then your engines going to break any way, only things that need to bed in are the piston rings. Some people prefer to do a ritual and run them in over hundreds of miles, its your engine, use the force and search your feelings to find what's right for you. :)

Dual account, split personality, psychotic episode ??:wack:

Stripped the first turbo and I think its safe to say its beyond help. Compressor wheel has a lot of minor damage to the blades, heat shield on the zaust end is starting to split, main shaft looks like it may be pitted slightly, I'm going to remove and strip the other side sun afternoon, its not looking good so far the first tubby was the one I thought was in the best condition. I have another spare turbo so hopefully I will be able to salvage 2 out of the three, I found a fairly easy way to refit the small circlip's in the centre so its not been a total loss and I now know how to strip it, next one should be quicker.

Well the body count so far, passenger side off and one bolt snapped off on exhaust housing, "great", soaking in oil as circlip appears to be welded to turbo :D

Yes very, the engine bay on the 200 is wider than a zed between the suspension tops but the 200 chassis is narrower right where the turbo's sit. They would be nice but this is cheap skate a short term fix, I'm fitting a pair of tdo5-16g's scrounged from an evo 3 in the winter

Cheers, will hopefully get them off in the next couple of nights and get them stripped on the dinning room table.

Got the engine out of the car or rather the car up from the the engine, supported the engine and gear box and lifted the car up, would have been easier with the plenum or the throttle bodies off as the tps drive was very close to the chassis. Is it easier to remove the turbo from the manifold or remove the manifold then the turbo ??

And the same here minus the pop up's http://jpcnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/e-vade-real-mans-kit-car.html

Wow that certainly is sexy

Cheers guys, Its a do or die fix in time for JAE, wasn't too sure where to post it. I run the engine in using the make sure nothing drops off for a few miles then cane it, its been running fine for a year now apart from deteriorating turbo's. Got the front part stripped fairly quick, rad, ic pipes, afm etc, got to remove the whole steering column and rack too before the block can be pulled, some things are better than a zed to get at some are much worse. Guides will be great help, just need to dig up the part numbers for the rebuild kits

The smoke on overrun and tickover is now at silly levels so I started striping the car ready for engine removal, (its fitted into an s13), started with a compression test, 2 cylinders at 145, 4 at 150+. There are no signs of any contamination with oil on the inlets, so hopefully its just worn oil seals on the exhaust housing end. Going to rebuild both using diy kits, should be interesting, will add some pics as I go.

I binned my pcv valves and everything else connected to the plenum/throttle bodies that was not needed (right or wrong :wack:), I never did get round to fitting catch cans but I have no oil coming out of any of the open breathers, no smoke or back pressure so far, that's after a years abuse, Fooked turbo's aside

Yup would start with timing

You can remove and clean them but it is a pita and you may need to bin the odd lifter once you know what faults your looking for

1 bar and my clutch slips and its not done many miles so I would say nope

Yup I had that problem, easy to sort though as you said Also easy to sort with the same file a bit of card a pencil and the same file :D