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BryanBNR

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    Birmingham, AL USA
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    Building sleeper cars
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    Owner on BNR Supercars LLC

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  1. I have a manufacturers defect warranty. That's when internal parts are left out or snap rings pop out, holes not drilled in bearing housing, clearance/blue printing issues. When you have a failure and the shaft isn't blue/purple, I warranty unless its foreign object failure (something sucked up into the turbocharger). The shaft shows you that things were properly oiled or contamiinated. I have seen no telling how many brand new VF40's that have 1 heat cycle that come rattling from dealers. I used to buy turbo cores all the time for 40-75 bucks from them. It didn't matter to me if they were busted up, I machined all the end housings out for the larger unit and the parts were good to be used again. Its not a installer issue, its an issue with the factory oil supply system. It doesn't effect all of the cars, just a %. Most of the problematic cars are the 05-06 models. They are my most common customers. When we build a turbocharger, we blue print each one. We check gaps of the turbine seal and compressor wheel, we also check both seal bores for issues. We also inspect every bearing housing to make sure all of the oil supply holes are deburred and drilled. The journal bearings and thrust bearings are checked for clearance, and the rotating assembly is balanced to .5 or less gram/in2. I usually will not argue with anyone on this subject, but I have seen what these cars do to turbochargers. There is not a car out there that burns up turbochargers like the 05-09 legacy GT and outback XT. I have been doing hi performance turbochargers for close to 20 years.
  2. 1 out of 100 cores I saw were in rebuildable condition. That means I could put a rebuild kit in and repair the turbocharger and it would be usable. I kept good track of the turbo cores that came in because I used to sell the good center housing rotating assemblies (maybe 10 total) to a guy in another country. When a core would come in, we'd shake the box. If it had the box made a jingle sound we called it the VF40 jingle and knew what it was before we took it out of the box . I do my best to help everyone I can, but I can't fight everyones battles with plagued cars. When I open the turbo up and the shaft is blue and purple where the shaft has metal fused together, I should warranty because the engines have a oil flow/volume/contaminate issue? How is that the turbos/my fault?
  3. When 99% of 1000 turbo cores that showed up at my shop with severed shafts, there is an issue sir. I do agree with you on the oil needing to be clean. But the failure rates of the vf40 is very alarming. I have been building turbos for close to 20 years now and by far the most unreliable turbochargers have seen by far comes on the 05-09 LGt and xt! I have never seen so many shafts broken. The mazdaspeed 3/6 turbos fail left and right but their issue is turbine seal failure. Few speeds have unrebuildable cores. As far as the LGT sales for me have been down since my web site went down a year ago. Wouldn't have mattered anyway because my exhaust housing mold broke and I couldn't produce anyway. So I had to take a long pause but now they are back in production.
  4. Every car differs. I have an 89 turbo mirage awd auto. I put a shift kit in the transmission and it's fast and reliable. I built a 96 eagle summit awd with the same power plant but I built the trans for big power. I spent probably 3 grand on the summit trans. We'll that trans has been out about 6 times, disassembled 3 times fully rebuilt twice because of internal valve body issues lol. But physically is the same transmission! Lol. I hate that sob.
  5. I have done over 1300 Legacy turbochargers since 2009. These are all my returns in 7 years. ALL of them starved to death. If you refuse to accept this I will gladly find your bearings that came from your unit and give you some pictures and you can send them to any other turbocharger repair shop you want to and get their .02. I am not here to scam you. If the turbocharger fails and its my fault, I will take care of it. There have been many times that I have fixed turbos that were clearly starved and didn't charge them a dime because they didn't have money.
  6. Oil starvation isn't covered under warranty. No turbo shop will cover starvation under warranty. It wasn't the turbos fault your engine didn't supply the turbo with adequate oil volume. The one reason why I would run a sandwich plate is to get the turbocharger oil supply from a more reliable location. The cylinder head oil ports are restricted, then the main oil line to the OCV is restricted. The turbocharger shares oil supply with AVCS and it has 3 built in restrictions in that line. If the OCV malfunctions, the oil pressure plummets in the oil line. Just too many easy ways for the turbo to lose its oil pressure even with upgraded oil lines.
  7. Alright so you pull the screens that are plugged up with engine fragments and run with out them. Then you contaminate the bearings in the turbo and it dies a miserable death .
  8. I send you lots of business and you refer business elsewhere. That's dirty man. Btw might I remind you I have seen more vf40 turbos than what you can emagine. 1% of cores were rebuildable. There is a problem with the oil supply. Now you telling people not to do the oil lines, you are setting them up for failure for sure.
  9. When I sell a turbo I try my best to make people aware of the inherent issues the LGTs have. I can understand your frustration. If the system is all working properly that oil kit does perfectly fine. But as we all know there is a huge issue with oil supply on these cars. Say you built an engine for someone and they knocked a hole in the pan and kept driving on it until the engine seized. It comes back to you all tore up, would you warranty it? Hopefully this oiling issue sorted out.
  10. Sorry that you have oiling issues. Some cars have more issues than others. I do my best to try and help solve the problems. When the shaft is purple blue and all colors of the rainbow the oil was shut off to the turbocharger.
  11. Been a long while since I have posted! I just wanted to say thanks for all the business everyone here has given me! Beginning of the year I will drop the prices on my basic EVO/18G for the LGTs back down to $725! Please don't PM me, just pick up the phone and call! Have a good Christmas!
  12. Hey Guys. Hope all is well! On my next batch of barb fittings, I will put a restrictor in the compressor housing barb so you don't have to reuse the stock T fitting. Each batch I like to make revisions like this to help make the products better. New water lines and drain tubes are done. In the next month, they should come with the turbos. Does anyone have any requests to help my products be more user friendly? Turkeylord, if you test these EBCS's and they are proven reliable, send me some cards and I can put them in each Subie turbo box we sell. Bryan@BNR 205 640 1193
  13. The sand must have been on a pocket inside the compressor housing. It is a sand casting. Just close up the oil feed and drain parts of the bearing housing and blow compressed air through the compressor inlet and outlet. Once cleared, should be fine. If you don't feel good about doing so, return it and I'll take it apart and get it back to you. Bryan@BNR
  14. Mike, I hope your business turns around. You do such good work and you have so much knowledge. Any California orders I will suggest to go to you for installation. I will do my best to get a kit together ASAP. I do have these questions. What thread pitch is the banjo bolt that goes into the cylinder head? What length does the main turbo oil supply hose need to be? What thread pitch does the cap need to be that caps off the original oil supply line that went to the turbo? Bryan@BNR 205 640 1193
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