I just got back from the shop and it is not good at all...

So far it destroyed a valve, the piston, and the turbo on that side has a LOT of play in the shaft... like a lot! It hits the side walls if you pull up on the shaft a bit and turn it.

The drivers side turbo is also on it's way out... it's leaking a good amount of oil. SO i think new turbo's is in the feature. I might even do my custom turbo setup now but I am not sure yet...

I will post pictures of the damage.

Josh

 

Yeh, I saw your post there first.

 

The guys at devils own prolly posted the picture to make sure no one else does the backwards nozzle on mistake you might have been the first to do it and call them about it sucks that such a small filter could do that much damage I'm glad you posted that though because I think I had it layed out to be installed the same way

 

I had a friend blow an engine (I've posted this before, its more for newer guys) from a small piece of metal. Wrong heat range plugs, and the ground strap broke off. Chipped a piece off a valve, and then the valve chunk and the spark plug chunk bounced around inside his turbo, taking out some fins there.

No matter what the situation, not fun.... Sorry to hear about your car.

 

ThePaintballGuy, This is chance "rocket468 on our fourm" I am the one you spoke with. I am sorry this has happened to you. Its something i never for saw happening. We don't want our users to have this problem. Bilal "dvldoc" i see saw you post and took some pics, I have not even spoken to him yet. These nozzles are a pretty new item for us, and this is the first I have ran across being mounted this way.

With devilsown moving building i been nuts busy. Bilal is in guam "activy miltary" so it pretty much just me and i been meaing to get on here and answer questions had no idea there was 12 pages of discussion. Sorry for the lack of support for me. I just wanted to get on here and post up and make sure no one else had the nozzles mounted backwards. I was told that others did and i don't want this happening.

 

Here are some pictures of the damage... Can you guess which cylinder it was? And there is a bent valve but it's hard to see in the pictures.

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Josh

 

It looks like you have two bent intake valves (maybe all three) and a beat up piston surface. If you didn't find any tiny metal parts, the turbo probably toast, too. I assume the other cylinders are ok. There are some k04 kits that are probably less or about the price of replacing the k03. I know money doesn't grow on trees, but since you are already paying for the labor, now it the unexpected time to make any upgrades. (Not much of a silver lining, I know.)

 

I've been pretty happy with this kit and ordered another for my A4. In this case, I want to see if I can run 87 octane with water successfully.

 

I upped my timing to 4.5 degrees. Here are the results for a full throttle 2500-6500 rpm run in third gear.



I have the water coming on really early at 3 psi and I'm full on at around 7 psi. No bogging or misfires and NO TIMING PULL!!! (All you can see on the graph is the boost.)

In all honesty, I did get momentary 8.3 degree pull in cylinder 4 right as I was coming off throttle.

 

Here's an interesting graph. I was actually going uphill and passed a car. If I remember, this was probably a 4th gear pull. I did get some timing pull.