1997 GSX - DD, RR, and 11's.

[asshanson]

You said hood? Hoods are usually Fiberglass, with a layer of CF on top for looks.

Depends on how much you pay I guess haha. I'm sure there are full CF hoods available.

grp? I'm just talking vs stock so yeah 30 less than steel.

Glass reinforced plastic, or fiberglass.

[goodhart]

Depends on how much you pay I guess haha. I'm sure there are full CF hoods available.



Glass reinforced plastic, or fiberglass.

Oh, yea.

I had a VIS on that old Avenger I had. Pretty similar front end wise to the 2g. The 2g parts fenders/hood/headlights/front bumper up actually bolt up with a little modification. Hoods are almost identical. Anyways, I want to say I lost about 30 lbs and it was grp underside on it. Doesn't help the stock is like 42 or 44 lbs I think?

[SlowWhite]

For reference iI debating on the. A.B. vented hood.

But its a toss up as I also may do a built tyranny. Stock ones still going Strong but its original.

[SlowWhite]

Well on the way home today from work. I decided to do a pull as i had just finished prior to work, bleeding my clutch and setting the engagement. And......

Well the clutch held just fine however in pretty sure I blew my hx40 turbo which has about 4000 miles on it now. Will pull the intake pipe tomorrow to verift if there is shaft play etc.

But:
24psi when it happened and was at 8500rpms. I was logging at the time of incident.
I now can't boost at all (i think its locked down for reasons below) goes to 0 on the gauge and stays. Absolutely not turbo spool sound (hx's are normally loud)
There was tons of smoke (1am hard to see color)
Oil on/from the center section of the turbo
Exhaust got like 1/2 as loud as it usually is almost sounded stock.
Car backfires and sputters on decal really badly
And oil pressure dropped from 80 to 58 by the time I got home

At least I still have the HX35 in the garage. Not sure what would have caused this. I have a -12an drain with a -4 line (restricted to -3an) fed from oil filter housing.

[SlowWhite]

Well turbo spins. But has a lot of up and down and side to side play.

Looks like it started to rub on the compressor cover.
You can see scrap marks on the bottom on the inlet in the picture

[AwdGSX13]

Yeah that doesn't look good. I assume the oil feed is off the filter housing? 4000 miles is low for a turbo even at 24psi.

[SlowWhite]

Yep It's From The Oil Filter housing.

I plan to put my Hx35 back on but.i am kind of nervous as not sure what caused the failure.

[SlowWhite]

Yep turbo is trashed.

But what I don't get is. It almost looks like something came through the exhaust side. There is no up down, side to side play on the exhaust side. But several of the fins are missing. Any thoughts of what would have caused this?

Also found my O2 housing is cracked.

[asshanson]

That's some serious turbo carnage.

[AwdGSX13]

That doesnt look good at all, not sure what would have done that unless something went through it. At least it wasnt the compressor side that blew apart.