hey guys im pretty upset right now...i put in the fp18g with supporting mods n got it tuned last week by GST...4 days later my turbo is blown...i go back to gst n mike told me most likely FP did not align the wheel correctly n that the wheel was hitting against the turbo well now my turbo is done for hopefully they will honor the warranty....

 

sounds like a defect
hmmm i should have blown right away though








or you broke the dremel out trying to lighten the blades haha jk

 

yea i dunno mike told me...usually it takes a while for the wheel to get misaligned n gradually hit =(

 

do you still have the turbo?

 

There's a rumor circulating around about this particular turbo unit...

Do the words "Momentum Turbo" mean anything to you?

Read up on a NASIOC search on the subject. Someone had to buy out the turbos, and re-sell them.

 

there was a thread on NASIOC about this and the guy got super flamed by everyone and even got banned. I guess he was right afterall.
Supposedly there are some fake 18g's being sold and they suck really bad.

 

Dude that sucks what kind of power were you making?

 

I sat up in my bed last night at about 2am and said to myself "AH HA! That's the proof!" (After wondering for a few days what was going on)

How do you "align a wheel" in a turbocharger? There is no alignment process-you put the bearings in the housing, put the thrust bearing assy. together, put the backplate and heat shield on, and then you put the turbine shaft through the housing, put the compressor wheel on, put the shaft nut on, and you're done. If you balance the cartridge as a full rotating unit, you then balance it. If not, you're done.

There's no alignment-that's fake! Sounds like what happened to the momentum units-the turbine housing was put on the bearing housing totally crooked because trag the taiwanese cave man doesn't know what he is doing. THAT causes the wheel to impact the housing!!!!

Now, keep in mind, you REALLY have to be a bone head to do this, and I doubt that forced performance has ANYONE that stupid in their whole organization that builds turbos. This is something you do if you have NO IDEA what is going on...... BUSTED!!!!!

Again, "alignment" is totally a lie.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22al...8&sourceid=ie7

 

There are a LOT of these things!

 

^^^^
that was you on there.

 

Yeah, I couldn't really keep that thread open due to my lifetime ban for being bad. It was one of those things where it was a conflict of interest to keep the thread open on NAZIOC because I was bad, I had an ulterior motive for posting the thread (VENGANCE for FP killing my father when I was young?), and FP was giving NAZIOC money.

Jake-you'll keep us updated, no? Hopefully they will align the wheel correctly this time and keep the compression fluid in the flux capacitor.....

 

Nope, these turbos are fresh. Their big advantage is that they share common parts with the EVOIIIGT cartridge and the EVO IX turbo that the same factory makes-you can make 1000000000000000 bearings and bearing housings, and they work for all models.

 

how long ago did you send the turbo out?

 

damn! had i knew about this fp issue, i would not have bought a 16g with the evoIII wheel. guess its just a matter of time before it goes out too. kinda shady if you ask me. had something else like this happen, but this isn't the place to rant for that. i have crap luck

 

Just pray you don't have one of the bad ones...