Well I'm pulling the head tomorrow and Ill see if it's just the rings or the landings.

 

any update on this?

 

Yeah! cylinder walls are fine, unfortunately I guess on the little drive home the turbo must have been starved of oil cs the bearings are shot. I just had a brand new garret cartridge put in for $450 ugh. I'll be selling all my stuff soon enough and throwing a set of those 2azfxe pistons in and selling the car soon.

 

Wow! Bad bearings and seals on a chinacharger... hard to believe.

 

It was all garret, the only thing left of the chinacharger was the exhaust and compressor housing the cartridge was replaced. In other bad news my brother in law said he could set the motor to tdc for me while I went to work. Needles to say he took the timing cover and off turned the motor over a bunch of times. So because the timing cover was off the cams turned as a result, long story short he bent every valve in the head and snapped one off. he called me and told me that the motor didn't want to turn over any more , which means all the valve guides are probably screwed. I may need a new head ugh, well I guess that's what I get for letting someone else handle my mess.

 

When you did the Compression test, was it at operating temperature? and What tester did you use?