[dreamvang]

Originally Posted by V8Huntr

If you take the filter out you run the risk of larger debris and contaminants getting into the turbo. This could impede oil flow and ruin your turbo. If this happens the only theoretical way to get them out is to take the turbo apart.

If you leave the filter in then you catch those larger contaminants at the filter and keep them from getting into your turbo all together. Yes this could still impede oil flow but it's a lot easier to pull the filter out and clean it than take the turbo apart.

You answered my question, I was afraid to remove it if I found it, I guess its better in my opinion to just clean it regularly ("stock turbo"). But first, I gotta see if I can find it!!!.

[blueman05]

im running a fp green def wont hurt to get more oil to it by removing filter completely... 2 turbo oil filter not to sure what your talking about? i did the one i could access under the turbo and removed the filter completely

[tyler_sti]

Did you unbolt the battrie at any time durring the removal? If so you're ecu reset and might be why it felt "smoother", just a thought.

Originally Posted by dreamvang

After reading much, I decided to tackle this problem of mine and check to see if my filters had dropped. After removing the intercooler, and turbo heat shield, I unscrewed the bolt closest to the driver side and cleaned it. After trying to find the second bolt, I simply did not know how to unscrew the 2nd bolt from the turbo line. I didn't see any filter in the first banjo bolt nor inside the housing, then I gave up. After putting everything back on, My car didn't start at all. After a couple of more cranks, the car started fine "Whew!!!". After taking a test drive, to my surprise the car is now going through the gears more smoothly than before, and honestly I felt my car isn't sick anymore as was before. Others have stated that it took them 10 minutes to check both the turbo filters, it took me awhile 2 hours. Did I do something wrong?

[dreamvang]

Yup, I took the negative battery line off. And yes after this simple diagnostic my car seems to be cured, whereas before, when I am climbing up the RPM, I can almost feel the gas pedal vibrate,and my steering wheel would also vibrate and wasn't as smooth, almost as if my turbo was dead or lagging. Could a simple ECU reset fix it? Quick question, for the turbo heat shield, why are there soo many bolts? I only screwed 5 and left 2 out, wondering if this can become a problem.

[tyler_sti]

Hahah I hate that freaking heat shield. Takes longer to take that dam thing out then the downpipe! Very un neccary, 5 screws would support it fine There's like 12. And the ecu reseting thing. It starts off fresh, no previous minor tweaks that it has learned from day to day driving. So it gives the inital feeling of a "fresh" start type feel. It just keeps learning, the faster you drive the more responsive it will be vice versa. To a certain extent of course. It's alwase nice to reset the ecu on cars after a good amount of miles.

[blueman05]

even to reset it when running cobb ap?

[santacruz02]

Originally Posted by blueman05

even to reset it when running cobb ap?

(Off topic but) Yeah now I'm curious myself on that. With the new updated ap software (found on website) you can reset ecu with that. Is this the same thing? I find it hard to beleive that the only way to reset the ecu is by disconnecting the negative battery terminal.

[AP1toGDRev.G]

You could pull the ecu fuse...

[NewShockerGuy]

I think I am going to try this today but I am worried that everyone says it's a 10 minute thing yet I know will take me many hours.....


Is there someone that did a STEP by STEP procedure on it.?
IE::

1. Take of TMIC,
2. Remove heatshield (if appliacable)...etc
3. bla bla bla..etc

I am not a mechanic but things like this worry because I don't work on my engine all that much. I did install my TBE, removed my header before..etc


Pics of a stock engine and how it was removed would be awesome as well!

Thanks,
-Nigel

[V8Huntr]

I plan on doing mine this weekend. If I do I plan on doing a full How-To with all of the requirements and steps involved.