Turbo failure??

[XJHEAD]

Manny Buginga's car

before

after

[Goodnbuzzd]

Holy! it ripped the sheeet outta that firewall and fender. immagine if there was sombody standing near the car when the turbo grenaded.

[zbrown]

wow.... insane

[inspector01]

Did they say what they think caused it??

[95accord]

thats crazy.....wow

[KA-T_240]

SS Autocrome/Ebay tubro?

My Dad has never seen anything like that happen with turbos. And he has seen lots of screwed up turbos.

[D S ohM]

That poor damn turbo, it would make a great conversation piece on a coffee table. haha

[King Ricer]

Damn that sucks big time!

[bubba]

How the hell?

[btleier]

KA-T_240;220030 wrote:
SS Autocrome/Ebay tubro?

My Dad has never seen anything like that happen with turbos. And he has seen lots of screwed up turbos.

haha... yes I bet they're running an ebay turbo on a race car.

I am curious as to what even causes that kind of decimation.

[Grr]

it happens. the old stage 5 wheels used in the PT-54 used to grenade all the time in the late 80's. Theres a few buicks with holes in the hoods from the same thing, crazy

[Rexwagon]

Holy shit

[XJHEAD]

It was a Turbonetics 91mm.

He has ran a 7.37@196 on a 28X10.5 tire

[zbrown]

D S ohM;220034 wrote:
That poor damn turbo, it would make a great conversation piece on a coffee table. haha

what do you mean.... it is the coffee table

lol

[Guest]

btleier;220044 wrote:
I am curious as to what even causes that kind of decimation.

Sucked in a small lawn tractor....

[DaveH]

Toss in a new bearing set and it will be good to go!

[fallguy]

Wow...that'll cause boosting issues in the future.

[XJHEAD]

That's why I run two, I have a back-up for those pesky supra powered cars....