I was at a SEMA panel today and met Joe Hige, the new CEO of Turbonetics, as well as a couple other of their staff members.

He and I will be in contact some more in the future, but I will be talking to some of their staff tomorrow in person.

If you have anything you'd like to tell them, to vent about (product woes, etc), let me know. This is the kind of thing they want to hear so they can correct it.

 

tell them to make a kit for the 07 automatics already!!!

 

Good to hear you got to meet those guys. They are a great group and definitely open to input. I'm here to help to if anyone has any issues I can assist with as always.

 

My turbo just went out after 10k miles and it is in transit to their office to be checked out for warranty repair. After reading a few posts it seems that these turbos don't last and start to blow smoke then go out. They need to find the root cause , too much oil pressure? BOV not working, etc. thanks

 

They need to make an 07 kit!

 

They are working on this actually. Replacement turbos either are or will soon be going out with a water cooled bearing housing. I don't know for sure if they have implemented it yet on all kits but they are going to switch to them.

 

Hey Rob. This is yamaha16bw's brother. DOes this mean use who have had or having problems with thier turbos get new ones? I'm having some leaking issues in my turbo right now. Smoking at idle.

 

Yes if you are having issues with your current turbo and they have cut in the water cooled bearings then you would get one with water cooled bearings...

 

Any chance you could talk to the guys at Tnetics for me? I know my brother talks to Steve alot would he be able to do this for us?

 

In what aspect? I'm still in the initial phase of contact, really.

 

About getting turbos with the water cooled option.

 

I talked to Reggie today and he said the new bearing section hasn't been implemented yet but should be shortly...

 

Well what about us whos' 1 year warrenty isnt coming up. Will they still stand by us?

 

I'll bring it up to the Sales Manager in the morning. I know you and your brother have been there since the beginning. I'll make sure to let him know whats going on..

 

i talked to one of there guys about making turbos for XB's.. they said they have no intention of doing the first gen.. but second gen there is a good possibility.. so look for that if you plan on getting the new xb..

 

makes sense since all they would have to do is retro fit the existing tc kit to fit within the engine compartment of the xb. that is what we call being cost effective!

i guess there just isn't enough of a market for people who turbo their boxes.

 

Well they have a part number for a Cast Steel exhaust turbo manifold for the xA/xB so I'm sure they thought about it.

 

I have no probs with mine yet . At least I still have the warranty until Nov.

 

Thanks Rob!

 

They didn't just think about it they tried it but the 1st Gen Xb and Xa internals were just a little too scary a proposition for boost. Where as the tC has shown that it can take boost well the xA and xB motor just was a little to scary to try and make a bolt on turbo for..