My freinds SC50 recently died on him (I think he managed about 1500 miles out of the turbo) when the wheels started eating away at the housings. He took it to a local turbo shop, and the tech (fairly well known and respected here in CO) said that the exhaust side shaft bearing had a much larger oil clearance than what he has seen on most garrets.

I'm just wondering if this is standard practice of precision, or if my freind just received a bad apple?

This turbo was on a mitsubishi, and his oil feed line was tapped straight off the oil pump housing like precision reccomends. I wonder if the mitsubishi's just don't flow enough oil to keep the bearing fully supported, since I havn't really heard of this problem with Hondas.

TIA!

Bryson

 

goin back to the time when i was racing buicks, all we ever installed was turbo's from harry. harry is well known in the buick camp and never had any issues with him. my te-32e had 40k hard miles on it when i sold the car and never passed any oil. i am hoping you just got a bad apple. to harry and p.t.e.