Well, my turbo stopped spinning.. need some input, Intercooler = cause? Options

[mark_426]

Intro: Well, I took my car to celicagurl152003 and had quite a bit of expense put into it.

Throughout the work to my car, the intercooler "could not be installed" and I was told the car would be "fine, if not better" without it, due to the length of the piping. Ok, so I drive it home, seemed to run fine, minus something occasionally that seemed like a backfire if I punched it and tried to run the rev's up in the current gear.

Regardless, I was doing some electrical work this past weeked (7-10th), and I finished some of the electrical up, and got the battery charged, and went for a drive. THis is when I first noticed no boost. After it cooled and such, looked at it a bit, and asked some opinions of some of the alltrac people locally, didnt really get anywhere. Anyway, I had to change oil, and some other stuff under the hood, and finished that up, pulled it out my driveway, turned around, still no boost.

So, the real question: Anyway, my turbo currently will work about 10* back and forth from its current location, and then it feels like it hits an obstruction. It turns freely for the few degrees it does turn, but will turn no further.

What would cause this? Is it easily fixable? Would it be related to having no intercooler?


Heres a pic of the engine bay as it was until the turbo stopped functioning:

[lagos]

Guys, can I run the car with the turbo not spinning? Would it hurt the turbo to keep running the car?

Is there any way to mke the wastegate stay open? Would it be better/ok then?
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if you cant spin the turbo by hand, then the turbo is dead. buy another ct26 or fork out the cash for a 27 rebuild.

dont drive the car in the meantime. you problem has nothing to do with the wastegate, so dont try to mess with that. my theory is that your turbo died from some type of compressor surge cause by not running an intercooler and having such a direct path from the turbo to throttle body. 9psi blasting through such short piping was probably too much air even for an hks bov to let out.

dont take this the wrong way or anything, but it sounds like you really dont know much about this car. if i were you i would hit the net, big time. start reading everything you can find on mr2oc.com , celicatech.com , and other sites you find on google.