It seems to be hit or miss with these turbo's. Wonder how many that failed is a number we will never know about. One of the things I don't like is the fact that the grease that Comp wants you to use is their own brand. You don't know what type of grease it is. The other thing about Comp greased turbo's
I don't like. There is no exit port for the old grease to come out of when injecting new grease. So the old grease has no where to go, gets cooked, and the new grease will just push the old grease into the bearings. Another thing is over greased bearings will fail. Hard to believe but true. Preforming PM's on equipment. They tell you no more then 5 pumps from a grease gun if no exit port. If it has an exit port. Remove the plug. Take a zip-tie and clean out some old grease in the exit port because the grease gets hard. Start to pump grease through the zerk fitting until grease just starts to come out of the exit port. Reinstall plug in exit port.

Its true. You dont hear about the thousands on the road with longevity and no issues, you only hear of the bad ones. Nobody is going to chime in and say "just so everyone knows, my turbo is still doing its job". However, my turbo is still doing its job..lol.

But Rusty brings up a point I have always wondered. I grease my turbo every 5K miles with 5 pumps and have always wonder where the other 30 pumps have gone.

882 miles. That's how long mine lasted.

Mine is at about 40k miles and I grease it every oil change 5-6 pumps I was told by comp that the their grease is water base and is evaporated over time ….I did replace the first turbo for a design flaw with the zerk leaking coolant after about 8k miles

LOL I wonder if Comp knows grease doesn't evaporate :ugh:

Lol.. no idea .. that why I was asking them what it was and they wouldn’t say. But if it’s more of a water base lubricant I figured it might not be related to typical “grease” and maybe evaporate or burn away residue but I don’t know.

The "water base" might evaporate but all the other crap that makes up the "grease" portion won't. It can't just burn off residue inside a closed system - where is it supposed to go?

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They did say that over greasing wouldn’t hurt the turbo and the the excess would push out the seals and blow out the exhaust and just be wasted …but they won’t offer much info on the subject and very selective on how they answer questions …..I just grease every oil change and so far no issues and I daily drive mine everywhere road trips and all

I saw your thread sucks they send you a turbo that wasn't pre greased.

Its funny how the video says 1600cc injectors but the IG post says otherwise. Typos happen, but I’m curious where the error is.

No offense to anyone, but I hate when I see people talk about returning to the dyno because of wrong components that don’t support the goal they were trying to reach. Definitely a lot of info to make better decisions beforehand, and the tuner should know better. Its a waste of money in my eyes to pay for a few hours on the dyno, just to swap out injectors and then need to redo the whole dyno session


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Most people when it comes to power always have progressively expanding goals. I thought no way I would ever need more than 1050cc injectors, yet here I am needing more.

It’s all for show

The owner mentioned that he ran out of injector to make 1000whp. The tuner said he just needs to change the wastegate spring

When we tested the Rotrex I had a mindset that I would have been happy with anything over 17psi and it would have been a win to make more power than the vortech plus have filtered air. (Plus the numerous other benefits). I was actually calculating 18. We were super surprised when we seen 21psi! That placed our IDC at 107% at 7k rpms. Sometimes when your breaking new ground you get a curve ball.