996 Turbo / GT2 Turbo discussion on previous model 2000-2005 Porsche 911 Twin Turbo and 911 GT2.

Smoking turbo?

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Old Apr 29, 2013 | 04:40 AM
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Smoking turbo?

It was time to rebuild my GT28 turbos so I decided to send them back to Todd at Evo. The turbo's were sent to Tial and completely rebuilt in and out to meet specs. Everything was installed and car has been running fine. The last five start ups one of the turbo's has been blowing smoke. The turbo's have maybe 450 miles on them and I have never got on the car before it hit 180 and always let the turbos cool before shutting down. what gives, someone help!
 
Old May 2, 2013 | 09:21 PM
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is this just on start up ???? is so do not sweat it it's the norm . i did have this happen on some k16s i got from kevin at umv. they had maybe 3000 mile on them he blamed the oil (red line), the installer 30 years my tec, had to send em back cost me a couple grand to have him rebuild his turbos a second time.... very poor service GOOD LUCK!!!!
 
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