20ish autocross runs, about 15 laps at Calspeed (one full session, 3 partial sessions). It started making a little bit of noise for about a lap, and then it stopped making boost completely. I thought I had popped a pipe, but then I heard it squeak a couple of times.

Back to Garrett tomorrow. I have an event in 2 weeks.

 

WTF?! That stinks.
First thing that comes to minder is the funky oil drain, but other than that...?

 

Holy **** man


Turbo miata's everywhere tremble at the mere mention of the name "Savington"

 

If anything, that would cause an oil seal to go. Turbo is dry on the compressor side. Haven't seen the turbine side yet (I am going to hurl if the housing is fucked up).

 

I know, that's why I doubt it's that. Very curious: get that turbo off, it's only three bolts this time Ok, and some oil/water lines.

 

Bah. Don't know whether I didn't get them tight enough when I clocked it or whether they backed out on their own, but 5 of the 6 bolts that hold the turbine housing to the CHRA backed out. Turbine cocked to one side, made noise for a while, then finally seized the shaft. The turbo spins free, just like it should, but the housing and turbine wheel are done.

May do Resbond, may do safety wire.

 

Wow, mine were tight as hell to get off. Maybe you put it on hand tight and forgot about them later on? I doubt that that is going to be our next failure point.

 

Nope, I remember cranking down all 12 at the same time. I clocked the CHRA to fit the drain line, snugged a couple, pulled it back out and cranked them all. :(

 

****, better get a root cause analysis on this.

 

Didn't JayL's brand new Garrett destroy itself as well?

 

Sucks Sav, and just when we thought you were done having to mess around with the turbo!

 

He used teflon where he shouldn't have?

 

i still don't see how that made a compressor nut pop off....

 

Thought that was ZXTex...

 

that's gay as ****. Time for me to bust out the safety wire on mine.

 

They aren't supposed to be horribly tight, 30ftLb's IIRC with blue loctite optional.

 

Is this a poor attempt at humor? Please clarify so I can belittle you on the internet. I'd hate to mistakenly harass anyone.

 

When I was clocking my 3071 I couldn't find a torque spec so I email Garrett tech support. I was surprised at the low value but maybe it's just for the compressor side as it is aluminum. I can't find the email now so maybe my memory is failing but it was low.

 

so...what about the blue loctite? Does that work?

btw, 30lb/t is a ****-ton for that little bolt.

 

That really sucks! Sorry to hear....