SR20 Turbine housing or complete turbo
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Find a set of reverse drill bits or get these http://www.craftsman.com/shc/s/p_101...&blockType=L11 and drill hit hammer one in and remove the stud.
Edit: Also drill a nice little tunnel through the stud taking the thread preassure off all the way down. Heat is your friend to. See my other responses-fire makes everything better. With it drilled through torch the housing while dripping ice water down the middle ot the holy stud. Housing expands and stud stays small ish. Worked for me once. Sure there is a physics reason I would be wrong but it freakin worked once for me.
Edit: Also drill a nice little tunnel through the stud taking the thread preassure off all the way down. Heat is your friend to. See my other responses-fire makes everything better. With it drilled through torch the housing while dripping ice water down the middle ot the holy stud. Housing expands and stud stays small ish. Worked for me once. Sure there is a physics reason I would be wrong but it freakin worked once for me.
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And NOT these->
http://www.craftsman.com/shc/s/p_101...8&blockType=L8
They suck monkey ***** and will break in the stud making it even harder to fix.
http://www.craftsman.com/shc/s/p_101...8&blockType=L8
They suck monkey ***** and will break in the stud making it even harder to fix.
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Ha! This stud is made of magic metal, it's welded to the threads. Along with penetrating oil, vice grips, welded nut, freezing/torching, I tried to drill it out today. I got about 1/8" down easily, then suddenly the pressure on my drill press went soft and it dove down 1/2". It ate a 1/2" of my by, meaning it's now very hard along with stuck. I could have saved about a 1/4" of that, but I was in shock with how easily it was going down. Oh well my only option is edm and I don't know of a shop around here that'll do that.
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Yeah, I had a .48 or .49 whatever the turbine a few years back...what a waste of time that turbo was. I bought it and was told it was an SR20, it wasn't. I think I researched that it came off of a 1980 pontiac sunbird or something. It was a .49compressor with a .48 turbine, if I do remember correctly...maybe the other way around. Spooled stupid fast, actually looked like my current SR20 t25, but it couldn't even hold 9psi to redline.
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Yeah, I had a .48 or .49 whatever the turbine a few years back...what a waste of time that turbo was. I bought it and was told it was an SR20, it wasn't. I think I researched that it came off of a 1980 pontiac sunbird or something. It was a .49compressor with a .48 turbine, if I do remember correctly...maybe the other way around. Spooled stupid fast, actually looked like my current SR20 t25, but it couldn't even hold 9psi to redline.
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Yeah, I emailed one place that says they have a "wire and sinker" EDM machine(s?) I used to use one all the time at my old job, but have no idea what type it was. I'll see what they say.
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I'm just about to upgrade (~1 week max) from my current T25G.
*: Chinese rebuild kit, though, but you can pull everything apart on it super-easy as it only has maybe 1k-2k since rebuild. Mounting holes to engine have been bored from 8mm to 10mm.
Last edited by blaen99; 02-19-2012 at 06:41 AM.