Twin Turbo Problems.
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And Ya no one gets to drive my vette but me from now on. As for my cursed friend, me and the vette are going to the court house today to get a restraining order against him. He's not allowed to even sit in it. LOL
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From: San Jose CA
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Well I had a bit of a scare last week. I lent my very cursed friend my TT 02 convertible to take his new girlfriend for a ride. He gets 2 blocks away and an alarm in the car goes off so he turns around and comes back. Turns out the TT system I bought has a low oil pressure alarm that was going off. Brought it back home and looked at a few things. It was down a quart of oil so I added 1 and started up the engine again. The alarm went off again and this time I noticed raw oil puking out the tail pipes
Shut off the car and tried not to cry.
Being it was Saturday on a long weekend I had to wait until Tuesday to get it towed to my mechanic. Course all my friends, and enemies had their own take on what was wrong, from blown turbo seals to ringlands letting go and taking out the turbo's. I drive the car hard but I built it to handle how I was going to drive it so I was on the blown turbo seals bandwagon.
Turns out it was a melted connection on a $10 resistor that controls the oil pump for the turbo's. When it melted it sent a faulty signal to the oil pump which set off the alarm and pumped oil directly into the turbo's. I am so happy it was a cheap easy fix and can now laugh at all the people who were hoping for catastrophic failure. LS1's rule!
Shut off the car and tried not to cry.Being it was Saturday on a long weekend I had to wait until Tuesday to get it towed to my mechanic. Course all my friends, and enemies had their own take on what was wrong, from blown turbo seals to ringlands letting go and taking out the turbo's. I drive the car hard but I built it to handle how I was going to drive it so I was on the blown turbo seals bandwagon.
Turns out it was a melted connection on a $10 resistor that controls the oil pump for the turbo's. When it melted it sent a faulty signal to the oil pump which set off the alarm and pumped oil directly into the turbo's. I am so happy it was a cheap easy fix and can now laugh at all the people who were hoping for catastrophic failure. LS1's rule!
Turns out one of my oil lines were right up against the turbo and a small hole burned through the lines. Mike norris (Norris Motorpsorts) said the scavenger pump, which sucks the oil back, wasnt getting all the oil. It was sucking part air because of the hole in the lines, or something like that, I dont quite remember the exact wording. Got new lines, drained the manifolds and the system (which wasnt as cheap as your fix, thats for sure) and that was it. That was 3.5 years ago and not one problem since.
How did the lines get up against the turbos? Well the Lingnefelter turbos are down low and the oil lines are underneath the turbos. Most likely I bottomed out too many times and I never checked the lines. Now I have a lift and have been inspecting the lines whenever the car is on the lift. I Also remove the inlet hoses now and then the turbo casings are as dry as the desert
No more problems
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From: Gboro/H-point/Reidsville NC
You have no idea I drove it stock for 1 year then decided to upgrade. I traded in a supercharged 93 mustang interceptor I bought brand new for it. It was 13 years old and had only 98000km and was super quick so I needed that or more from my vette. Well with the TT I got way more. I can break free in 3rd gear at 90mph in it and it kicks *** on everything I've come up against. It never gets dirty cuz I wash it about twice a week or more and it's been waxed more times than Jenna Jamisons ***** LOL. There's nothing better than driving a car you love anytime you want.
thats why I joined this site, so I could be around others that share the love of one awesome car. I only wish there were more in my home town so I could see them wherever I go.
I drove it stock for 1 year then decided to upgrade. I traded in a supercharged 93 mustang interceptor I bought brand new for it. It was 13 years old and had only 98000km and was super quick so I needed that or more from my vette. Well with the TT I got way more. I can break free in 3rd gear at 90mph in it and it kicks *** on everything I've come up against. It never gets dirty cuz I wash it about twice a week or more and it's been waxed more times than Jenna Jamisons ***** LOL. There's nothing better than driving a car you love anytime you want.thats why I joined this site, so I could be around others that share the love of one awesome car. I only wish there were more in my home town so I could see them wherever I go.
