Myx8u

*Note, I work 60 hours a week, have a dying mother i have to take care of, and im a full time student, so no, i didnt have time to search through the forums to see if this was already posted, so please dont give me **** for not looking.*


Ok, so here's the story. I have a 04 with the Greddy turbo kit, interceptor-X EMS, and Greddy exhaust. Lately, I've been having boost creep on really cold days. The engine has 32k miles on it, with the turbo being added at ~10k miles ago. I change my oil every 2.5k miles, and have never had any other major issues.

Ok, now the good stuff, the actual problem. I was driving home this afternoon, messing around, getting into boost. All of a sudden, as I was doing around 115mph, my boost drops to 2lbs. This immediately came across as a hose either being blown, or popped off, as it had happened before. I get home shortly afterwords, and let the car idle for a second, as I had smelled copious amounts of oil pulling in. I revved up the engine to see if it would boost, and it did, up to the normal 6lbs. I then notice the massive cloud of light blue tinted smoke and immediately shut off my car. I pop my hood, and after a few seconds I notice my air filter looks burned. At closer inspection I notice its a small patch of oil, and then notice a small pool of it in the opening of my BOV. At this point, I just stomped off and called a local rotary guy who said it was either a blown turbo, or a broken front oil seal.

Ok, after that long explanation, im wondering, what do all you wise and experienced rotorheads think is the problem?

expo1

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-major-horsepower-upgrades-93/greddy-turbo-kit-f-qs-post-them-here-59834/
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-major-horsepower-upgrades-93/definitive-greddy-turbo-fixes-here-they-81825/
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-major-horsepower-upgrades-93/official-overboosted-overlords-club-163615/

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NgoRX8

iTrader: (1)

time for a new turbo or a rebuild. common problem after that amount of miles on the greddy turbo.

Jedi54

iTrader: (7)

Busted turbo.
SLOW THE HELL DOWN before someone else gets hurt.

paulmasoner

iTrader: (1)

rebuild your snail. if you dont have it, get a oil catch can in there too

I would typically bust your ***** on this too. But I am feeling unusually peaceful at the moment and will not make judgement, partly because of a lack of information. I have no problem with speed. What I get fired up about is people, people who are too stupid to be aware when the risk is greater or less given the cirumstances/conditions. I can't blindly ride you about it as I have regularly cruised in triple digits(mph) over the last year. This doesnt justify it, but I do choose when and where very carefully, and the conditions on the road where I drive lend it to being more acceptable risk than say, doing 120 on a 50mph 2 lane back here in the states. In other words, just think about what you're doing.

God I'm being nice, and wordy, must be the drugs again :P

Brettus

iTrader: (2)

You should get more than 10k miles from your turbo .

When you have got it rebuilt have a read of first post here ....
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-major-horsepower-upgrades-93/greddy-turbo-owners-thread-206160/
also : if you don't have a BOV it wont last long

and if your BOV is VTA it wont last long either - depending on the brand .

Myx8u

As far as the speed goes, I was doing that, for a short period of time, on a 4 lane road. I maybe passed 3 cars during the entirety of the speeding, and there was always at least a lane between me and those cars. Granted, not an excuse, just explaining that I wasn't being stupid about it. At least not too terribly much.