Where is a good place to send off my turbo to JUST GET THE OIL SEAL REPLACED AND BEARING. Fed up of of being taken for a mug at Turbo Dynamics in Christchurch!!!!

How much am I looking at roughly?

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St205 WRC - Running sweet.

In fact, F@@k it, where can I get a PROPER rebuild kit and I'll do it myself! (as you can probably tell, I'm not happy!)

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St205 WRC - Running sweet.

If you rebuild it yourself I would wager that it would fail quickly. You have no way of balancing it.

How much are TD wanting for the work?

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GT4DC Events Co-ordinator
1996 ST205 UK

the fallacy that is the ct20b = "ct26 small"


http://www.melett.com/turbo-buildsheet- ... e03b74c95d
or
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from= ... 26+rebuild

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ST165 turbo 4WD
ST185 GT-FOUR RC Carlos Sainz Limited Edition 825•5000
ST185 turbo 4WD Carlos Sainz Limited Edition 2541•5000

The turbo is perfoming fine, it just smokes a bit on idle.
TD say that wastegate lever needs to be rebuilt (bull@hit!)
They also said that if they open it up, some other stuff "might" need machining and would bring the cost up to £400-£500.
If I choose for the work not to be done, they would give it back to me in peieces??? *bleep*! Oh and this was told to me one day before I'm supposed to be picking it up, so its been sat in the workshop gathering dust.... (one week later...)

Its MY turbo, Its ME who decides what I want done to it!!! I even said I would sign a disclaimer saying I would not hold them responsible if it failed after their rebuild... (they said no) Fair enough, I'll be there tomorrow to pick it up and it better be in one piece.

I have disassemble the turbo about a year ago and marked where the intake wheel sat on the shaft so kept the same balancing from before. It works fine.

Don't get me wrong, I would rather pay up to £350 to get the work done BUT I ONLY WANT THE BEARING AND SEAL TO BE DONE! NO MORE COST!

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St205 WRC - Running sweet.

Remain calm.

I suggest you go to google and find someone else.

Personally my feeling is that if the turbo is smoking then its in need of a rebuild - get it done and enjoy another 30k+ miles of use without worrying about it.

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1996 ST205 UK

If it were my turbo I would not have dismantled it myself. It's a precision component spinning at over 100,000rpm so the risk of something going wrong with your reassembly is considerable. Anyway, that's all water under the bridge now. If the seals have gone you would be better off getting it rebuilt properly with a warranty.

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Don
GT4DC Chairman
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST205WRC JDM 269bhp @ 0.9bar
1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four Special GT 590bhp @ 1.8bar
1989 Van Diemen RF88/89 Formula Ford 1600
2008 Nissan Patrol GU 3.0L ZD30DDTi 154bhp

i have mine rebuilt with turbo technics but no mater were you go you will be looking any were from £250-350

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http://www.brooks-brd.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/Brooks.Racing.Dev

Give the company I work for a call.

Advance engine dynamics- 01305 458177

We can rebuild and balance turbo for around 275 +vat.

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1998 ford st24, 186hp 2.5 v6- sold
1997 bmw e36 318ti, mint hellrot red- sold
1992 celica gt4 st185- td04 340hp/330lbs
1998 mercedes E280- sold
1998 pug 1.9 td- mile muncher!
1993 rx7 542hp savage monster!!
2007 BMW 335i- in the shop gettin built!!

I used aet turbos in wakefield for my rebuild , practically new everything bearings/seals/compressor wheel/wastegate housing etc . With carriage and vat a tad over £600, hoping it stays in one piece for a while , so £350'ish is i think a reasonable amount, but tbh i think you're very much in their hands when dealing with turbos and cant really argue too much about what needs doing/replacing when we dont know .

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2004 Subaru WRX

I've heard good things about AET Turbos

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1996 ST205 UK

have a word with martin kingston
he's got a genuine honest guy doing all his turbo rebuilds theyve just redone the one on my works previa after 3 other places failed to do it properly

prices i believe are starting at £250 for bearings and seals after that it starts to go up if the shaft is needed blades etc but he tells you before anything is done and if you only want a certain thing doing and willing to sign a disclaimer then at a guess they'd do that also??

in the end you can but ask and its only the cost of shipping it upto blackburn and back