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Old 09-16-2010   #7
Halon
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Re: Can a blown/damaged turbo, ruin an engine?

I've had a blown turbo jepordize not my car, but the car behind me when I shot exhaust turbine shrapnyl out the tailpipe. When I removed my lower IC piping there was some pretty fine silver specs / mist in there (probably shavings from the compressor wheel carving into the comp housing). There was nothing found in my upper IC pipe, but the specs in the lower pipe were pretty small. No idea if they could have made it through the stock SMIC, but I wouldn't be suprised if some did.

At that point, maybe it's too small to cause any serious damage though? No idea, just sharing my one exciting turbo failure experience. This was a 14b which was installed in my old 2G btw.
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