Simplemanlance Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 So i bought a 2005 LGT (160,000 miles) with a blown up turbo the other day. I finally got it in the garage and the turbo take off. The car was blowing oil out the exhaust. when i pulled the intercooler off i could see that the turbo intake side and the intake has standing oil in it. Looks like i will be pulling the motor. ill do head gaskets, timing set, and pull the oil pan. is there anything else i should do to the motor while it have it tore apart so something like this doesnt happen again? I will get a new turbo. probably a vf40 or vf46. I will be keeping the car stock because it will be sold and it is an automatic. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/20131218_160106.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/20131219_180920.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/20131219_181023.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/2013-12-19181714.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/20131219_193519.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/20131219_193526.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/20131219_193541.jpg Video http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/LanceA0/th_20131219_181104.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryo Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 ouch.... Dave [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Providing unmatched customer service and a Premium level of Dyno/E-tuning to the Community cryotuneperformance@yahoo.com facebook.com/cryotuneperformance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chato Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmP6889928 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Man oh man....you may have bitten off a lot more than you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pazuzu Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 thats a lot of oil..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pazuzu Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 I got an sti up pipe. direct bolt on and no cat. I hear they can come apart and damage or destroy your turbo since the turbo is after that cat. Search "resistor mod" to deal with the check engine light that appears if you do this mod. It will remove an 02 sensor and of course throw a code if you dont do the resistor. Its super cheap though. There is a filter in the banjo bolt that feeds the turbo oil. I removed it and threw it away. Those filters can clog and starve the turbo of oil. All this is pretty cheap if you can get a STI up pipe used cheap enough. However if you are just going to sell the car I would be trying to fix it as cheap as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplemanlance Posted December 20, 2013 Author Share Posted December 20, 2013 Man oh man....you may have bitten off a lot more than you think. why do you say that? I got an sti up pipe. direct bolt on and no cat. I hear they can come apart and damage or destroy your turbo since the turbo is after that cat. Search "resistor mod" to deal with the check engine light that appears if you do this mod. It will remove an 02 sensor and of course throw a code if you dont do the resistor. Its super cheap though. There is a filter in the banjo bolt that feeds the turbo oil. I removed it and threw it away. Those filters can clog and starve the turbo of oil. All this is pretty cheap if you can get a STI up pipe used cheap enough. However if you are just going to sell the car I would be trying to fix it as cheap as possible. I yeah im thinking free mods. Im planning on removing the banjo filters. I do want to do this on the cheap. I also want it to be a good fix i don't want to just band-aid things, or hide them just because i'm selling the car. thats not how i want to flip cars. if once i get the motor out and the heads off it is junk. ill just part everything out. There is still some money to be made. im hoping that is not the case though because i would really like to get to know the turbo motors a lot better. This is subaru # 8(6 n/a foresters, 2 LGT) that i have bought and done work to. 2nd turbo one. the last LGT only needed a trans. I try to stay away from the turbo ones. More expensive to fix and they always seem have issues when they get up in the miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SBT Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 If you find any metal anywhere in the lube system, which you will with the turbo looking like that, plan to replace the oil cooler as well because it collects metal particles and sends them back into the oil system where they affect everything. And, a few hundred or thousand miles later, boom - new turbo and likely new engine, which you will be fortunate if it's not already at that stage. - Pro amore Dei et patriam et populum - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob-2 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Inspection is key. I'd be budgeting for a total motor rebuild, including turbo and heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kzr750r1 Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Inspection is key. I'd be budgeting for a total motor rebuild, including turbo and heads. For sure if you intend to flip and have a happy customer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chato Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 that oil stalagtite is epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06lgtspecb Posted December 20, 2013 Share Posted December 20, 2013 Subscribed, I'm curious to see how this works out for the op. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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