Anyone have experience on the Pelican Parts forums?

[DrJosh]

Oh haha. Yeah that is me. Sorry, I wasn't sure what you were talking about.

[camshaftgsxr]

Typical Porsche owner answer, "don't do it yourself you imbecile! Send it to a professional! That's what I do, it only costs me about $500 or 25 minutes pay!"

There are plenty of turbo forums out there where you can get an answer without people trying to convince you to do something you can't afford or don't want to.

[CorvallisBMW]

Look man, I understand that you're just trying to put everything back together, but that's not really good enough. You NEED to core balance the entire core assembly. It is not good enough to just individually balance the parts, they need to be balanced toegether as an assembly and that's just not something you can DIY.

From what I can see, it looks like your thrust washer is installed upside down (orientation is matters). The coking on the upper side in your pictures looks like it should be pointing down toward the core. I wouldn't expect to see that on the side that was in contact with the thrust bearing.

The little plug with the two sealing rings on it should be poking through the seal plate and the CW should run up against it. I'm thinking you're missing a spacer that goes under the large mating ring. The smaller side of the mating ring should go through the splash guard, but not be compressed against the thrust bearing.

However, without seeing an OEM assembly print of this turbo I can't say for sure how it's supposed to be assembled.

OK, well I can't have the CHRA balanced until it's assembled. So regardless of balancing requirements I still have to get the thing together, which is the point I was trying to make.

Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a shot.

[justin_l_]

Look man, I understand that you're just trying to put everything back together, but that's not really good enough. You NEED to core balance the entire core assembly. It is not good enough to just individually balance the parts, they need to be balanced toegether as an assembly and that's just not something you can DIY

That's funny, DSM guys have been rebuilding journal bearing turbos for years with no I'll effects as long as the components are individually ballanced. There are even 9 second holset powered dsm's that were rebuilt at home on a bench. I am speaking from experience, I have rebuilt a few myself, my last one has almost 30k miles on it at 25+ psi with no ill effects yet.

[camshaftgsxr]

That's funny, DSM guys have been rebuilding journal bearing turbos for years with no I'll effects as long as the components are individually ballanced. There are even 9 second holset powered dsm's that were rebuilt at home on a bench. I am speaking from experience, I have rebuilt a few myself, my last one has almost 30k miles on it at 25+ psi with no ill effects yet.

yeah, but Porsches' are special.

[abrokenframe]

I'm on Pelican and 912bbs for my '68 daily. I rarely see anyone out of line. Many of those guys will lend you parts/tools/literature/rebuild DVD's if they get to know you well enough.

Most of them are DIYers and take it very seriously given the cost of some of their classics. Most of them know how to choose their battles and will farm out certain portions of their builds, such as turbos.

Remember, you could trade 10 maybe 20 shiny e30's for a 930. It's no surprise that they think sending a turbo out is money well spent and good advice for 99% of the population.

And to be honest, if I were buying a car and the guy told me he rebuilt the turbo himself, I'd get a little nervous.

Ryan