blew my turbo, need a new one.

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KEMP
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Car: 1990 240sx CA18DET

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so my car started smoking today after some pulls and beating it a bit.

i instantly thought the motor, since it was recently rebuilt and im paranoid.

but come to find out(at least i hope) the turbo had went bad. it has a decent amount of play, not too horrible, but it is very colse to touching the wals if you push on it kinda hard, and it started to smoke like a frieght train. i just got home and figured id peak in the onc clean apex gt-spec, i wiped my finger in the tip, and my finger came out with a little frined on it, named oil, haha, there is literally wet oil sitting in my exhaust tip, i really doubt its any motor problems, it runs great doesnt hesitate mis or sound funny at all, and i think if it was the motor and that much oil was coming from motor issues, then i would hear/feel something un-normal, it IS an ebay turbo so you know how that goes, but is there any way you guys think it could be motor related? it runs perfect.

it had quite a bit of shaft play, im pretty sure if i pushed a bit harder it could touch the walls, and there was a little oil in the inlet as well.

if you have a TURBO with a T3/T4 flange, please let me know, pref not a POS, i want something good and not massive, thanks


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