$275 is a cheap, for the amount of damage that turbo sustained. Hopefully he can salvage the housings and backing plate, as those are not cheap at all. Blast has insanely cheap pricing on rebuilds...

 

THe rebuild I can do for cheap is a preventive rebuild.
You know, the kind of rebuild that i say everyone should have done to a OLD turbo of unknown condition prior to use it.

This turbo right there, was CERTAINLY in good salvageable condition before. Maybe it looked ok, but it's condition was unknown and not warrantied. using it as is was a wild guess and a very expensive one.

depending on the model of the shaft (stage 1 or 3) and on the need of other major parts such as backplate and housings, it may get more expensive.

 

i mailed that turbo to Blaast today. Had to use UPS, the USPS wanted to charge me a ridiculous amount. It looks like i may have got "lucky", Backplate looks good and it seems to still spin good. but when i was driving it, it wouldnt make over 2lbs boost and was ------ hot as hell.

I got the turbo for a really good price. Turbonetics are kinda pricey new.

 

I had a turbo end up looking the exact same way once. Shaft had to be repaired, stage 3 wheel replaced, machined for larger bearings, and then I had a 360 deg thrust bearing installed. wasn't a fun bill

 

How many times do I have to tell you. Its a turbo, not a Dremel. haha, shitty luck man. that looks like an old K03 I had that blew up because the nut went in to the compressor.

 

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you say you had a filter on it, i say you sucked something in....is any part of your filter missing? for example, some cone filters have a little metal cap on the inside that can get sucked off. they are only held on by shitty glue

 

Well I plan on getting in contact with blaast once I get a job, but yeah these kind of posts are scary... Tell us you sucked something in!

 

Yea.. I'll bet that rebuild is more than $275.
If Blaast lets you out the door for under $300, I'd be a devoted customer forever..

If you didn't suck something in, there's still a problem.. Need to figure out why that turbo loosened up enough to allow contact. Once it contacts it's WAY out of spec and it gets expensive.

Some turbos are right hand thread, some left.. I've seen both. You can figure it out just looking at the threads on the shaft in most cases. The compressor turbine usually doesn't come off easily and honestly, it's easy to bend the turbine shaft, so be careful..

That thing is wasted!