Trying to get behind turbo problems!!!

[cschepp]

Ok so I have a set of hks 2540s, are any of you running them or even hks 2530's( I imagine they are roughly the same minus better response on the 30's) ? I would like to know what you guys did to make these work with your car. Reason being is I bought a set off a guy in the US and he said they we in good condition. I installed them and they smoked right away! Can you please help me out I am trying to get behind this whole problem!

[Zacho]

Smoke when? idling, transition from vac to boost or what?

[cschepp]

Not so much on idle, just when driving. The oil seals are blown I'm sure. Does anyone have these? Did they use a restrictor? If so what sizing? I am asking for my money back from the guy that sold them to me because he said everything was in great working condition and obviously they are not. I'm just trying to figure out WTF happened here.

[Zacho]

If you went from a jb to a bb turbo a restrictor is necessary.

[Phastwon]

Ditto Zacho's comments I run 2860-5's with an oil restrictor also, the ball bearings just need a light misting of oil, not a constant stream like the stockers. You will have to take care of this to stop the oil smoke.

[cschepp]

I'm sure I have restrictors on there. Does anyone know what size of restrictors you would need?

[cortexx]

Hey Chris

If you remoived regular stock turbos and installed the HKS ones without installing the restrictors yourself you will not have them , If you need them you can get them at JRP for around $6 each ( think thats what i paid for mine last year) . If you have that much oil flowing through BB turbos you will burn oil as the pressure will push the oil past the seals.

I know you mentioned that at the show to me , if I had half a brain that day i would have said that at the time

They are easy to install , just undo the oil lines from the block and insert retrictors and reinstall lines .. Then clean out your intercooler and intake piping

[cschepp]

Ok great I'm now super excited I was hoping it was something like this. Ya cortexx if you wouldn't mind that would be great. I'll shoot you the cash for them and get this taken at of once and for all! This means I prolly won't have to take the turboes off again! That's a bonus. I was going to do that tomorrow. Now I will just go clean everything up and prep it for those restrictors. I'll take pics when I install them just to make sure I don't f things up. I gotta get this thing running right so I'm not walking anymore. My feet facking hurt!

[Bruizer]

Sometimes, if you dont use restrictors, the oil seals could blow right away and not see changes in smoke, even after restrictors, since the seals are blow. Not always the case though.

2540 are shufflers too, yuck

[cortexx]

I dont have any , i included them with my new GT2860's that i sold , you can however get them from JRP , if you dont have transport i can pick them up for you , i work in brantford

[cschepp]

Well if I know which ones to order I can just make a trip to wherever they are and pray my form of transportation doesn't break down. I will be driving my truck hopefully tomorrow but if not then the day after. I'm trying to find someone around here that does turboes so that if/when I take them out I can have them inspected. I am NOT do the turboes again for a while after this.

Bruizer, what exactly do you mean by shuffle?

[93VSpec]

I have Cortex's old restrictors, and didn't use them when I installed the GT2860s (made some of my own) because the thread sizes didn't match up how I wanted them too.
If you want them they are yours, shoot me a PM sometime and we can sort something out.

[cschepp]

And I'll take them. That's a no brainer at this point. I'm going to help a fellow gtrc memeber tomorrow tih his car so won't be able to rip on my car but I will go on Wednesday and get **** done