11-12-2011, 10:19 PM | #1 | |
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New Turbonetics T3's Leaking/Burning Oil
Last week we installed a Hellion twin turbo kit on my car and the turbos have smoked/leaked oil from day 1. I've not even been able to tune the car the leaking is so bad. Here's a video:
After that video I installed 0.052" restriction jets, which reduced the problem, but oil continues to blow into the exhaust. Here is what I've tried/verified to eliminate the problem. 1) Verified the scavenge pumps are working and flowing well 2) Verified the crank case is well ventilated (even removed the oil fill cap) 3) Checked that there are no kinks in the scavenge pump lines 4) Installed 0.063 and 0.052" oil restriction jets, reduced the leaking but they still leak. Turbonetics recommends not to use oil restrictors At this point I'm thinking the turbo's were defective from the factory. Pretty damned disappointed right now . Any tips would be much appreciated. |
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11-12-2011, 10:33 PM | #2 |
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the chances of both being bad is really odd. All of my friends running t-netics including myself on my buick have all had great luck.
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11-12-2011, 10:42 PM | #3 | |
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Anyway, it's mostly the driver's side turbo, the other may be fine but there's so much smoke/oil it's hard to tell. Anyway, the kit was installed properly and the turbo's have at most 45 minutes of run time on them and 30 of those minutes were idling. |
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11-12-2011, 10:49 PM | #4 |
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A friend of mine recently installed the Hellion kit on his Camaro and is experiencing the same issue. In his case, there is not smoke at idle but at WOT it will make a crp duster jealous. He's still trying to figure out the issue, so if you figure out yours, maybe I can relay some ideas.
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11-12-2011, 10:50 PM | #5 |
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I hope this issue gets figured out. I remember reading your thread last week after the install. Did Turbonetics or Hellion contact you yet, or did you call them. Hopefully they can assist or talk to a shop through a fix.
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11-12-2011, 11:06 PM | #6 | |
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I'm going to try a 0.035" restrictor, if that doesn't do the tick I'm going to yank and return them to Turbonetics. |
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11-12-2011, 11:09 PM | #7 | |
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I remember Hellion saying that in your other thread. I don't have the same kit, but a single Turbonetics kit, and it never smoked even from the beginning. Turbonetics is a great company and the owner (who I've met and spoke with) is a great guy and I would imagine they will fix you right up. Hopefully you can get two brand new units.
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11-12-2011, 11:31 PM | #10 |
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That's definitely understandable especially since it's new and you probably can't wait until its fixed perfect so you can have some fun with it. I wish you the best of luck and it should get sorted out with time, but hopefully expedited.
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11-12-2011, 11:34 PM | #11 |
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start with that right one then...in/out, side2side play on the impeller shaft?
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You need a catch can
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