We've all joked about the longevity of the air-cooled COMP turbo and how long COMP's supergrease would last, but now we have hard numbers to back it up! Those numbers are...
45 days.
882 miles.
The hot-side impeller makes contact with the housing. There is lateral wiggle on hot- and cold-side impellers. The impellers spin freely when hand-spun, with no resistance. When the car was running, a horrible metal-on-metal sound occurs.
COMP states that eight pumps of grease needs to be applied every 3,000 miles. Their product didn't even make it a third of the way to the first maintenance cycle.
