do brand new turbos need any break in or anything? besides holding the compressor wheel for 40 sec on initial start? cause mine is smoking some when i gun it hard. i put a restrictor valve in the line and have it almost closed and its a lil better but still looks like it smokes a lil? drain line is clear and working.

 

Break it in on the dyno - i'm assuming you haven't had it dyno tuned at all.........how about you do that okay?

 

what do u mean break it in on the dyno? its not a matter of where , its do turbos need to be broken in ? kinda like new piston rings smoke for a few miles before they seal ,is a turbo the same way or no?

 

i like to know this too

 

According to the slip that came with my brand new garret t3/t4 hybrid, you need to pour oil into the new turbo once its on the car, spin the wheel a few times, then add more oil. Then you crank the car for 30 secs with the ECU fuse pulled to build oil pressure. After that, garret states that you must idle the car for at least 3 minutes to break the turbo in. Thats it...

 

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can anyone else vouch that this is all that needs to be done to break a turbo in? isnt it bad for the starter to turn the motor over like that for 30 seconds? i'm not doubting what your saying is true i just want a second opinion. i threw the slip away that came with my turbo just yesterday because i didnt think i needed it and i forgot that it said how to break in the turbo.

 

No problem. It is lubricated enough to start the motor, the motor doesn't really spin the blades that much at startup/idle anyway, mine doesn't spin at all.


What I do is start the car with the turbo feed line in a bottle so I can see the oil came through correctly as well as is not clogged or has **** in the oil from the inside of the line.

Smoking some is normal as you got oil/grease all over everything during the install.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B16Civic93 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">can anyone else vouch that this is all that needs to be done to break a turbo in? isnt it bad for the starter to turn the motor over like that for 30 seconds? i'm not doubting what your saying is true i just want a second opinion. i threw the slip away that came with my turbo just yesterday because i didnt think i needed it and i forgot that it said how to break in the turbo.</TD></TR></TABLE>

My service manual said to never crank it over for more than a minute. 30 seconds was probably unnecessary, really you just need to build some oil pressure. I didnt have my oil pressure gauge hooked up at the time, and I remembered it took about 10-15 seconds to build any pressure on cranking, so I just did it to be safe.