..not really..

Supercharged tC with a trashed crank, and spun bearing! Then no oil..


TC internals suck..

 

Who's car is that?

And please tell me they weren't running a crank pulley

 

They were actually... 9.5PSI and a ZPI crank pulley. Not blaming it on that, just another case of random bearing failure on the early 05's.. I assume.

Its Bryce's car..(tc2nut4)

 

haha! retard. Its already been proving higher boost pulleys cause damage with the TRD S/C

 

Yep, that extra 2lbs sure did spin those bearings that many n/a 05's have spun

 

Yea if the 9lbs of boost was responsible for a spun bearing, the turbo guys would be soiling themselves already and there would be a few more threads on this kind of problem.

Didn't this happen to ZPI's car on the track awhile ago?

 

(Knocking on wood that my 05 engine didn't get the bad batch of bearings)

 

They threw a rod..

 

ooh. I swear I read bearing failure or 'spun a bearing' or something. ah well.

 

If it wasn't so much trouble and wouldn't cost an arm and a leg I'd be tempted to open the block up to replace the bearings. It's too expensive just to open the block to do that though.

 

If you do, you will be greatly dissappointed at the tC stock internals...

 

Yeah, so I've heard, lol. I'm in talks with Charles about pricing for internals for say maybe next year?

 

You can already get pistons, bearings and rods.. and get it sleeved, but I dont know about cranks yet.

As far as that ridiculous "retard... blah blah.. sc pulley" comment above, he makes those types of comments all the time.. with no show of knowledge to back them up... comical really. Calling someone a retard when you obviously dont understand what is going on is pretty stupid.. and calling names in general is not only childish but is un-needed.

I seriously doubt it was boost related. And although I am with many others, including very experienced builders I know.. and have read data from (Dinan and ATI to name a couple) as well as basic engine physics knowledge that tells me I would never use a non dampened pulley on an engine designed for one, I am not sure this would be the cause on this engine unless it had more miles on it. That type of damage is usually a longer interval type of damage.. that can cause all sorts of strange failures. But, it is still a variable so it should be considered.

There were a few spun bearings that were popping up here and there for a while, so I am guessing there was a manufacturing issue occurring. It seemed like you didnt hear of it, then heard of 4 or 5 of them, then stopped hearing as much of it again. I hope this person got thiers corrected and running again.

 

Finally someone agrees with me here on the crank pulleys. I'm not saying it caused that damage but they just make me nervous.

 

How many miles on this motor before the problem occured? What other mods were added to the engine?

 

Maybe the v1 zpi pulley zpi stopped selling because they were out of round?

 

Back in January..40,000 miles I believe. TRD S/C, ZPI 9.5psi, ZPI v1 Crank, stock everything else... and yes he had the reflash..

 

How long had he had the crank pulley on?

 

Not sure, gonna get him to chime in.

 

please do...