Thread: china chargers

On a similar note i am running the stock oil and water lines on this ebay turbo. Should i be running a restrictor?

Sorry for crappy spelling. My htc sensation is being a pain

You stock lines should be good, but I know those Ebay turbos are extremely finickey on oil pressure.

Yeah i am thinking i should have ran an oil restrictor.

At cold start my oil pressure gauge shows 80psi @ idle any little revving will throw it up to 100. I was reading that those china turbos only like to see up fro 40-60psi pushing it.

Once the car is warm the oil pressure at idle is at like 30 but at full load it gets up to 80. Now i dont know if that is normal, i am hoping it is and maybe it was my fault for not running a restrictor.

Anyone have any imput on oil pressure for a avenir ? W10?

And if i do get a restrictor can i still use my stock line and just add a restrictor to it.?

Maybe thats why the stock turbo blew also too much oil pressure. But then again it did boost up to 17 psi for reasons unknown. Lol.

Any help would be appreciated, i just need a reliable dd .

ok so a tiny update, the car doesnt always blow smoke today it didnt at all, it smells a bit like oil sometimes then sometimes it smells like it would be running rich but i am still getting same mpgs.

this car is a Pain sometimes, but i love it.

so anyone have any imput on oilpressure?

Depends on where you are drawing your oil pressure from. Obviously you don't know how much pressure is hitting the turbo unless your gauge is after your restrictor. I think most people have their gauges set up on the distribution block, which is fine and gives you a good idea of how healthy your oil pump is, but will only keep you guessing as to what is actually being fed into the turbo.

I would recommend building some cheap inline gauge you can hook up to the oil inlet line to the turbo and see what's happening when the hood is open. The restrictors serve their purpose and do a decent job, in theory the only thing that ever worries me is if the pinhole in the fitting itself were to clog from debris/contaminants in the oil, you can forget about proper oil pressure to the turbo. Then again, if you have junk coming out after the oil filter, you probably have a bad filter or bigger problems.

He's got a DET putting a gauge on the stock hard line would be a pain...

A pain but doable, a little bit of cutting and the right compression fittings could make it happen if you are committed to using the stock hard line.

Just to throw in my 2 cents don't waste your money on ebay turbos. They're cheap and blow seals!

i might plan on getting aftermarket lines specially the return line so it can have a more flow.

and as of right now i have about 1k on the chinacharger and its been treating me real good at 10psi no issues whatsoever. rides smoothe kicks it at about 4300rpm pulls all the way to about 8k

i dont want to do more boost since i am on 3bar 370s im sure at 10psi they are already maxed out.
maybe i might just send in my jwt to be put on 4bar with a nice nismo fpr see what power i can reach since this has become a real budget build for now. as you can see i am on a china charger. ha ha