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Yea, I'm starting to remember something about this
now, as I was quite surprised at the time that the fragment from the exhaust
turbine had gone back up into the engine. An intercooler won't help you there
and a screen isn't possible either. But really what are the odds that this would
happen (I mean for anyone other than John" Turbo Killer" Slade)? Was this just
an anomaly or is this a common failure. Some of you follow some of the rotary
auto racing lists, have you heard of this type of failure
before?
I guess what I'm asking is this something us turbo guy's
should worry about and if so is there anything we can do about
it?
Todd (need to turn off the Olympics and get back to
building my shop)
As for
strainers, I don't believe John's blown turbo had any damage on the compressor
side. IIRC, he believes the turbine side somehow through a
piece back into the engine. I'm confident that he'll correct me if
I got that wrong :-)
Which turbo are we talking about?
The
second turbo sent turbine fragments back into the exhaust port and took out an
apex seal.
This
cost me a housing, a set of seals and a drive to North
Carolina.
I'm
pretty confident that there was no engine damage from this current failure
where a turbine blade broke off.
Yes,
I do have an intercooler.
John
(off to install the big one)
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