seriously I feel like Im not alowed to have nice things every time I spend the money to do somthing nice to the car somthing breaks somthing goes wrong and it is really i mean really really discouraging, today I went to the gas station to fill up and I always check my oil while I fill up but today I found that there is not enough oil in the oil pan for it to even show on the dipstick so I drove it home looked for leaks and gess what I found looks like I lost the turbo seals on a brand new under 500 mi turbo FML I just baught this new from ZZP last month

 

have you been seeing smoke out the back??

 

I hope you put oil in before you drove it home.

Look at the bright side, at least you checked; could have lost the motor.

 

Damn that blows

 

How did your low oil light not come on if you were that low? Yikes!

 

I have been seeing small amounts of smoke out the exhaust after startup
UPDATE: intercooler is flooded

 

because there is no such thing as a low oil light. there is a low pressure light but it doesnt activate until ~5-7psi: it is known as the change engine light for that reason.

 

Never thought of it as the change engine light but that is so truthful

 

yeah luckaly I discovered it at a gas station and was able to buy 2 quarts of oil before heading home, I emailed ZZP to see if there is anything they can/are willing to do
feeling a mixture of feeling like a combination of and

 

That is def rough man

 

Which turbo is this?

 

Man that sucks. Hope zzp can help/do something about it.

 

k04

me to

 

got a reply from Zoomer aking about applacation, oil feed and return lines lets hope he has somthing good to say

 

dude that really is some **** luck...

 

sounds about right for a K04, probably a cracked cartridge

 

Gotta look at the pros and cons. Sure what happened was an unnecessary evil; but in my opinion when dealing with a car you have to live by Murphy's law, especially in late model cars in which the motors continue to become more technical and the intricacy of design increases. The more moving parts, the more likely something will break/fail. On the bright side, you could have just purchased a $2000 turbo kit and had this happen. At least it happened on the cheapest turbo to replace for this car.

Just my .02

 

zzp said to upgrade to a larger oil return hose, im curently using -8an line which is the same inside diamiter of the LNF but they said I should upgrade to -10an or larger

 

I am unclear as to how this will fix the issue you have unless the line is plugged. You have the same diameter oil drain line as an LNF with the same turbo so it should be 100% fine.

 

If it drains to the same location, if it drains to a different location in the block there could be some issues.

 

I suppose but still seems a little far fetched to me.

 

Iirc the lnf return line is above the oil pan, and if the OP is returning in the top of the oil pan it could cause increased pressure, if that makes a noticeable difference idk.

 

Some, maybe. But I would be surprised if it was that big of an issue.


I mean I have seen builds people use the oil fill cap as a drain (above the turbo) and nothing like this happened.

 

I drilled and taped the port on the block so that im using the same port as the LNF

 

Hmm, what's the oil pressure in an l61 vs lnf?