This morning, I was minding my own business and driving along when a Mustang 5.0 came by and asked to do a little racing, so I obliged and left him behind. Unfortunately, I looked down and realized temps were not yet 160F operating range. Felt a little slowdown/hesitation while WOT and RPMs going high, then it went into high gear finally and left the poor guy. But after a few minutes the classic white smoke tail pipe arose and that was when I realized I blew a turbo seal.
Why am I sure that it is the seal?
1. stock turbos - cannot be head gasket at that psi - 22psi or so.
2. it is smoke and not burning steaming coolant.
3. only happens on acceleration and deceleration at specific rpm1500-2000 ish rpm.
4.when car cools down, zero smoke, only when hot enough does smoke show up.
Here's the weird part... it was in the morning that this happened and when I finally drove home for the late noon, the smoke had stopped. So I am totally confused but I suspect those stockers are on the way out anyways due to the high psi I been driving for the last couple of years.
I been looking at Pure Cast n54, Steamspeed 19t, Vargas GC 2.0 as options. I was considering Dynamic Autoworks but they are out of the running since there have been incidents on spoolstreet and their history is almost nonexistent in the n54 world.
I am looking to get to DD 650whp or less... I will settle for 620-630whp. I don't have upgraded internals so will keep it below 700whp, even though in theory, my PD Transmission is rated for nominal 720whp/tq.
So if anyone has any recommendations on which ones to get, I'm all ears. I didn't think I would need this so soon, but it's been a good run with those stockers. Everything must end.
Thanks, looking foward to your opinions.
Why am I sure that it is the seal?
1. stock turbos - cannot be head gasket at that psi - 22psi or so.
2. it is smoke and not burning steaming coolant.
3. only happens on acceleration and deceleration at specific rpm1500-2000 ish rpm.
4.when car cools down, zero smoke, only when hot enough does smoke show up.
Here's the weird part... it was in the morning that this happened and when I finally drove home for the late noon, the smoke had stopped. So I am totally confused but I suspect those stockers are on the way out anyways due to the high psi I been driving for the last couple of years.
I been looking at Pure Cast n54, Steamspeed 19t, Vargas GC 2.0 as options. I was considering Dynamic Autoworks but they are out of the running since there have been incidents on spoolstreet and their history is almost nonexistent in the n54 world.
I am looking to get to DD 650whp or less... I will settle for 620-630whp. I don't have upgraded internals so will keep it below 700whp, even though in theory, my PD Transmission is rated for nominal 720whp/tq.
So if anyone has any recommendations on which ones to get, I'm all ears. I didn't think I would need this so soon, but it's been a good run with those stockers. Everything must end.
Thanks, looking foward to your opinions.