wow, sorry to hear Taj, funny, but sorry..

dare i link this statement to another story i know? ROFL

 

i have no clue how it hapenned -_-

 

well fwiw my vote goes towards you HAVENT blown up your car, and your just having a laugh at the responses

my bet is you actually did something right

 

I wish so T_T I think I have to rob a bank

 

hahahahahaha.. oh taj

 

Have you called Jeff or Ray? I'm thinking you still have hope until you get a professional diagnosis. Pics of the clam or it didn't happend.

seriously I would enlist some professional help to take a look and diagnose what's up.

 

damn look at those pistons, looks like it shot right through the block lol

 

those are SR20 pistons that I was rebuilding, and now will be rebuilding until I can scrape money together for my own rebuild -_-

 

damn

 

I stand corrected.

 

yep, it doesn't work..............I hate myself

 

So WTF actually happened Taj?

 

fine, this is what really happened, I finished installing the turbo and everything

then I started it up, it started up, I heard a spool of somesort

like a high whining sound

then PING!!!! then it died..........

 

I'm speechless.
Really, I'm just sitting here at my desk, speechless.

You can't spin a turbo up enough at idle to produce enough boost to force past the throttle to produce more boost to freewheel a motor.
Even if you had no wastegate.

So, what actually happened?

 

it would be a cold start though - so 3000 rpm ......

 

RPM isn't the point. Its load.
You could spin the motor up to 7000 RPM. It won't be enough load to spool the turbo enough to get it to freewheel. That's just not how it works (though, that suggestion goes a long way to explaining why some are biased against turbos - lack of understanding about how they work).

 

did he loop the entire exhaust back into the intake?

where is that funny picture that someone drew. it was a v8 with the exhaust going straight back into the engine.

 

was just saying - it would not be at idle ...
Maybe there was also an intake hose off that enabled the turbo to get more speed up ....

 

Once again, this is exactly opposite of how it works.
It would need to push air into the motor. It won't do that on its own.
It certainly won't do it if its disconnected.

 

oh well - must have been the clam then ....... heh

 

thats what I thought too!

MM, I am also left speechless


that is what happened, honest to god, I dont understand what happened

it started up, and idled for 2 seconds, @ 3k rpm, and then just died,

those were the sounds, a huge PSHHHHHHHHHHH and then PING!!! and everything went dead, now it doesn't start, it cranks, but it doesn't start, I first thought it was the INT-X map......but I don't know, it just doesn't seem like it

 

Could something have been lodged inside the turbo, and came loose when the car started. Thus sucking it (whatever) down the intake.

And don't say a clam either.

 

BTW taj - what is a clam ?

Down here in nz it can be two things - neither of which is likely to find it's way into a wastegate .....

 

a clamp.........

 

Fine example of one in my sig pic.