3L3M3NT
Veteran Member
He can upgrade the turbo and still continue to diagnose what is causing his boost spikes, since they will still be happening no matter which turbo he's running, except the GTD1752VRK won't grenade at 30 psi saving him the hassle of buying another new VNT-17 at $800 plus the labor of installing it, cleaning out the intercooler and piping adds up pretty quick. And he's had to do that for 3 turbos, so the $1600 GTD1752VRK is looking a lot cheaper than say $2,300 in turbos plus labor of say $1,200. Call it $2,000 for the GTD1752VRK and install or $3,500 in turbos and labor, I know which route I would have gone.
Looks like my guestimate was spot onUpdate: running fine so far. Hit the throttle on an on ramp and boost acted normally for a tuned vnt15 with malone stage 3.
Still getting used to the throttle and everything. Weeks after only driving my jeep everything feels different.
A bit early to tell but it feels like the off idle response is fixed. I need to still play with it.
$3,500 in labor, parts, tunes and turbos chasing all of this. Ouch!
Either way it's great to hear that you were able to figure what was going on in the end, fix it and get back to driving your car on a regular basis.
We all have our fingers crossed that you don't have any more problems with the car in the near future. All I have to say, is that if you destroy another turbo, strongly consider upgrading to a GTD1752VRK and never look back.