Master Power Survival Poll

[Pope]

I for one am getting tired of seeing constant arguments about whether Master Power turbos are any good, but no real data to support either side. I realize that since this is an internet poll, there is no way to protect against lies, but I simply ask that people respond honestly about how a Master Power turbo has worked for him/her and no one else. Please do not vote based on a friend, buddy, other guy at the track, etc... only one's own personal experience.

[Unatural]

So far so good with mine. I have had some oil in the exhaust issues a couple times since i put it on, but it was because of my drain not being routed correctly and the oil backed up. It wasn't because of the turbo.

edit: I have a 62-1.

[platedturbonotch]

good thread mine has held up well other than a little impellar damage(my fault) car still went 10.25 with it i'm at over 25k with mine. where can i get mine fixed?

[Brn N Rubr]

Well, I am really happy with mine.  It survived five sets of blown headgaskets.  My fault (got it sorted out now).  Finally on the last time I fubarred it.  Had to have it completely rebuilt.  New shaft, etc.  Had Garrett internals installed.  Brian at BG CUSTOM TURBO treated me right.  Got it back recently and am currently having both housings ceramic coated.  A+ for the turbo be tough as hell.

[78pinto]

i voted, i have 2 but won't be ready to run till next spring.

[turbofreek]

mine runs fine for quite sometime now.  i got it used off someone here.  ive put just over 5000 miles on it.  some long stretches of driving.  ive been fairly hard on it to .  it seems its very difficult to not romp on the throttle on a regular basis with a turbo car.  but ive checked the turbo a few times nothing ive noticed wrong yet.  so another
+1 for mpt70's

[Eric88T]

Mine had a faulty seal with less than 3k miles.  They are definately not a garrett turbo but if I found one for cheap with blown seals or just generally needed a rebuild, I wouldn't have any problem having it rebuilt with garrett parts and running it. 

[notched306]

i dont have that many miles on mine but everytime i taek the car out it see's boost.for the money

[itllrun]

I got 10 miles outa mine b4 the seals blew, sent it in for repair in september and there still fuckin me on it.

[Attatoy]

i look forward to buying one in the future!

[B&G CUSTOM TURBO]

I have had about 10 failures out of the last 30 bought........BUT..... Out of the last 8 there were no failures, I believe it may have just been a quality control problem, which seems to be fixed. thank god.

The last mp 3 t-70's we got in also seem to have a bigger shaft. Don't know if it is through out but this is a solid step forward for the company.

If the failure rate stays down we may actually start including them in the kits again.

[Keith306]

ran mine for like 400 km's theni poped a head gasket, there was some oil in the downpipe but i am pretty sure it because i half-assed the oil drain. do i need a the have it rebuilt for next spring or wil/ it be ok now since i have a much better oil drain line now?

[Scott02GT]

I am going to stick this one at the top because i feel it is needed.  Lets be the first to document end user experiance on the master power line.  List the actual turbo as well, so we can see if there is a decisive variance between sizes.

[B&G CUSTOM TURBO]

call me stupid but how do I vote?

[RossMacD]

call me stupid but how do I vote?

click the dot by the poll and hit submit vote.

[MFIELD]

Not many miles on mine yet but no problems so far.  Worked good enough to blow a chunk out of my tfs heads I plan on buying another for a twin setup.   

[foxstanggt]

I have 2  t04e's that i have yet to use.

Related question, i need a compressor cover seal, can anyone get me one of these o-rings?

[Cobra93]

So far so good with mine. I have had some oil in the exhaust issues a couple times since i put it on, but it was because of my drain not being routed correctly and the oil backed up. It wasn't because of the turbo.

edit: I have a 62-1.

same problem, but I have a t-70

[4Jenna]

Mines been great so far, MP T70

[SLOWJOE!!!!BIOTCH]

been 400 miles so far no problems!

[n.o.s lx]

about 40 track 1/4 passes and about 200 street miles.  runs strong 100%  of the time...

[Newt-Rod]

I have 2 on my car and two buddies with them and the are GREAT 

[mystang]

Dont know if you know this or what it is but masterpower is a iso9000 company which is pretty hard to recieve that certification and then the "certifiers" come pay you a visit either once every six months or twelve months to make sure the quality is where it should be and that you are doing thinigs you say you are.

[Pope]

Dont know if you know this or what it is but masterpower is a iso9000 company which is pretty hard to recieve that certification and then the "certifiers" come pay you a visit either once every six months or twelve months to make sure the quality is where it should be and that you are doing thinigs you say you are.

very good point, I've never seen this point made before and it is a very valid one, I worked quality control/part repair in an iso9000 production facility for a bit during college, I know keeping the designation is time consuming and I never even gave it a thought that they meet this certification.

[Razzys Wagon]

Dont know if you know this or what it is but masterpower is a iso9000 company which is pretty hard to recieve that certification and then the "certifiers" come pay you a visit either once every six months or twelve months to make sure the quality is where it should be and that you are doing thinigs you say you are.

yup,very hard to get that status, and i think they will pull random units to check also, not one that they "have" for them to check.