Originally Posted by
Hodge
As suspected for a long time now, it appears, my turbo is stuffed. I'm more angry at my self for this, than anything else, as I didn't act on it sooner.
A bit of a background on this... Since I bought the car, it had a mechanical, whining/rattling noise, in sync with the turbo spool up. At first thought to be air/exhaust leak. Mark at JPC confirmed it was mechanical after he put it on dyno and had a good listened with a steto. A mechanic at work, who I showed this to long time ago, had a GU with the SAME noise earlier in the week. He just rang me before and told me, when they took that turbo off, there was major shaft play inside, and oil seals on the inside were shot, sending oil and air into the intercooler ??? Makes me wonder if there is a chance, this might have been contributing in the power lag / mood swings I've been having with this grenade. :S