So long story short, the PT88 failed on Thursday when I decided to take the car to work. This is the story of the aftermath.
I've been tuning the car on my own. Tweaking the tune, driving, tweaking, driving. The car had been running excellently since the 1/2 mile. I was working on squeezing out the last few drops of power from the car.
Having the car @ work for the first time this year meant I had to take a couple people for a drive. 3 quick rides went great... the 4th, was a bit different. I took a quick lap around the block and 1/2 way around I made a quick 1st gear pull and shut it down. Immediately after that pull, I noticed that the car felt like I had blown off a charge pipe somewhere so I took it right back to the office. The motor was still running fine, aside from feeling obviously laggy, just like when a cold side coupler comes loose. Got it parked in the lot and noted that the turbo sounds were 100% gone from the car. Checked all the piping, everything was in place... that didn't leave me with too many options. Pulled off the cold air intake pipe and went for the compressor fins... they wouldn't move at all.
Made an emergency call to SRT41320 to borrow his trailer, had my wife grab it from him and drive it out to pick the car up from Naperville. Thankfully the office was having a party Thursday, so after I found the turbo seized, I went back in to have a couple beers to drown my sorrows. Wifey showed up a couple hours later (its a WAY long drive and I owe her a huge thanks for doing this for me!) and we towed the car back home.
Got up Friday morning and pulled the turbo out of the car. Thankfully, both fans looked like they were 100% intact. This is a huge plus. Means that both the compressor and turbine wheels as well as the housings should be in good shape.
I called up Jeff @Goodfellas Garage and he pointed me to Midwest Fuel Injection in Palatine. I called them up, and spoke with Bryant. He told me to come out as he thought he could fix it for me. !!!!!
I get there, he looked at it for about 30 seconds and says, I'm going to have to send this out. I don't have any Precision parts here. I explain to him that I'm looking to get the car on the track Friday night and I really need it fixed ASAP and asked where he was going to send it to. He paused for what seemed like forever with a relucant look on his face then told me that this place was in Minooka, called R&S Distributing.
He called up Rich @ R&S and asked if he had time to work on my turbo, that I had a race that night I was trying to get to. He agreed and told Bryant to send me over after taking my name and my turbo info.
I get to R&S and find Rich. He tells me to put the turbo on a bench, that his guy Russ will be helping me out in just a minute. Apologized that he had to leave for lunch, and took off. I was left waiting for Russ. This is when I realize that this place is CHUCK FULL of turbos. Most of the pics below are from that shop.
Great guys, great service, amazing amount of parts available. If you ever need turbo service, call up Rich @ R&S (815) 467-9545.
I've been tuning the car on my own. Tweaking the tune, driving, tweaking, driving. The car had been running excellently since the 1/2 mile. I was working on squeezing out the last few drops of power from the car.
Having the car @ work for the first time this year meant I had to take a couple people for a drive. 3 quick rides went great... the 4th, was a bit different. I took a quick lap around the block and 1/2 way around I made a quick 1st gear pull and shut it down. Immediately after that pull, I noticed that the car felt like I had blown off a charge pipe somewhere so I took it right back to the office. The motor was still running fine, aside from feeling obviously laggy, just like when a cold side coupler comes loose. Got it parked in the lot and noted that the turbo sounds were 100% gone from the car. Checked all the piping, everything was in place... that didn't leave me with too many options. Pulled off the cold air intake pipe and went for the compressor fins... they wouldn't move at all.
Made an emergency call to SRT41320 to borrow his trailer, had my wife grab it from him and drive it out to pick the car up from Naperville. Thankfully the office was having a party Thursday, so after I found the turbo seized, I went back in to have a couple beers to drown my sorrows. Wifey showed up a couple hours later (its a WAY long drive and I owe her a huge thanks for doing this for me!) and we towed the car back home.
Got up Friday morning and pulled the turbo out of the car. Thankfully, both fans looked like they were 100% intact. This is a huge plus. Means that both the compressor and turbine wheels as well as the housings should be in good shape.
I called up Jeff @Goodfellas Garage and he pointed me to Midwest Fuel Injection in Palatine. I called them up, and spoke with Bryant. He told me to come out as he thought he could fix it for me. !!!!!
I get there, he looked at it for about 30 seconds and says, I'm going to have to send this out. I don't have any Precision parts here. I explain to him that I'm looking to get the car on the track Friday night and I really need it fixed ASAP and asked where he was going to send it to. He paused for what seemed like forever with a relucant look on his face then told me that this place was in Minooka, called R&S Distributing.
He called up Rich @ R&S and asked if he had time to work on my turbo, that I had a race that night I was trying to get to. He agreed and told Bryant to send me over after taking my name and my turbo info.
I get to R&S and find Rich. He tells me to put the turbo on a bench, that his guy Russ will be helping me out in just a minute. Apologized that he had to leave for lunch, and took off. I was left waiting for Russ. This is when I realize that this place is CHUCK FULL of turbos. Most of the pics below are from that shop.
Great guys, great service, amazing amount of parts available. If you ever need turbo service, call up Rich @ R&S (815) 467-9545.