Blown Turbo?

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Two-Fortee
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Car: 180sx.

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So..pretty sure whoever stole my car ripped the **** out of it, cause my turbo blew within 10 minutes of driving after I got it back, and I didn't have an ebc hooked up and something was F'd with my boost. But I'll give you guys the senerio and you can hopefully give me a verdict on weather this is a blown turbo or not.

Driving around, was doing around 40 or 50, engage the clutch at low rpms, poooofff. Tons of white smoke comes out of the one side of my hood where my turbo is. I pop it, try and start it, it wont start, and white smoke comes from the turbo ish area (it was hard to tell exactly). So I get the tow and take it apart and there is no shaft play at all with the turbo :s

I'm thinking blown turbo gasket or something. But someone said that since I did my own coolant and oil lines and they are rubber the lines could have melted or something. Anyway, here are some pics of the turbo. Its an S14 T28 non BB. For some reason my coolant line was all yellow and disgusting too, maybe you can help me out. Im putting on the stock turbo shortly but I'm curious to see what the deal is with this. I assumed it was blown until someone said something about a line. btw, its on a ca18det if that matters

Oil all over the turbo, (blown gasket?)



Yellow **** all over my coolant line:



Theres a pic inside the outlet



And the verdict is....


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MeanGreenS13
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so the car wont start... thats odd

to me it just sounds liek one of your clamps was loose and started spraying oil all over the turbo which would be where the smoke came from and why your turbo is covered in oil... as to why it wont smoke... thats beyond me...

Two-Fortee
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Joined: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:51 am
Car: 180sx.

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But it wasnt smoking at all and then POOF car turned off and white smoke came flying out. I don't think that would be a gradual thing like that.


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