I took my turbo in to be rebuilt, and it had the compressor and turbine housing already taken off. The guy checks it out, asks a few questions and noted that the restrictor I have is "f___in' tiny" from all the others he's seen people use.

I got a call this afternoon, and he said there were a few worn seals but primarily there are signs of "hot stops". The bearings had debris marks in them and the journals and will need to be honed for oversized bearings.

Now, everytime I ran my car I would let it idle for atleast 5 minuets after just stop and go type driving. I would let it atleast 10 after running around fairly hard.
It did get a lot of dyno time (NO cool down time inbetween runs) to get the break-in tune done, and even more to get to where I'm at now.

My question is this, how fast can one cook a turbo? Could it be from being run on a my freshly built engine and misc. debris making it into the turbo? WTF?


2005 Ford F150 SuperCab FX4 1964 Chevrolet Impala SS 1998 CSVT: 354HP/328TQ @ 10 psi, now gone