That's why I brought it up. If you don't run the proper restrictor on the oil feed, the oil pressure will likely blow the seals out on your turbo, and thus you will spit oil out of everywhere. Were you burning oil in the downpipe at all, black smoke out the tail pipe and such?
I'll havethe guys at SLS look into that...this is the same oil line I used on my 18G, so whatever restricter they ran in that is most likely what is still in there. I took a really hands off approach on this and let the shop do what they had to do.
Yep, probably the issue then. Garrett cartridges require a restricter fitting in the oil feed. I believe you can get it from ATP Turbo. The 18G wont have this fitting.
SLS and Boost Werx claims they've never had to use one before.....do our cars have that much more oil pressure than say DSM's, Evo's, Supra's, etc..?
I don't know why Subarus are different, but they are. Possibly it is the oil pressure. Eitherway, I know that a restrictor is used in most all Garrett cartridge applications on Subarus.
Garrett ball bearing turbos require very little oil compared to a journal bearing/floating metal turbo. I see 70-80psi at my turbo, and without the restrictor in there, I'd have blown it a long time ago.
Ok, got the turbo back, put it on (haven't even reflashed yet other than scaled injectors thus far) took it out and drove it for a bit. Everything works good, no leaks, no problems...decided to watch the AFR/EGT and make a pull to 4500 RPM, just to see if anything bad was happening. No problems at all (running rich, but other than that...) and made 10 psi before 4,000 RPM on my EJ20. I'm thinking there will be no problems with this turbo on this motor spooling and making boost....now to go flash it and do some more logging...
