no water cooled turbo

[Anonymous]

Ok.. what we are trying to say here is that YES you CAN GET AWAY with running no water through your watercooled turbo, but is it smart and will you get maximum life out of the turbo? No.

To quote my friend again

NOW - you CAN get away with using a water-cooled turbo, sans water. IF your operating conditions are such that the turbo never sees excess heat production or heat levels on the shaft, or in the exhaust. A very rich setup with EGT's in the 1300's and less will probably not have a problem. A proper setup running 1400~1700* WILL. The amount of boost, and how long its used will also effect the life of the turbo - LONG periods of boost (yee haw) will increase the heat a LOT, or LARGE boost #'s (20+ psi in the dodge world).

It all depends on your application.

 

[Anonymous]

Cut one in half and measure the damn thing, then take your best knowlege as to what the oil capacity is to water capacity and take flow measurements to calculate and prove yourself right.

Or, find a viable source from someone who has already done this testing and post it as proof. No one knows they are right until they ahveseen it for thmselves either physicaly or from a viable source.

I would interject and say that the water cooled turbo would not last nearly as long runnign dry as a non water cooled turbo would, becasue of the air pocket (and/or if filled with coolant and capped) standing water pocket is not as good of a heat conductor as solid steel. As far as oil capacity, i dont know, so im not going to guess as to whether or not a water cooled turbo run dry will last as long as a non water cooled or one that is being water cooled.

Obviously they water cooled it for some reason...but for what application?...

Find a source or make proof with numbers and ill believe that person.

Personnally id figure out some way in this world of "shoving blown big blocks into go karts" to find out how to run two measly coolant hoses into that turbo for insurance and better cooling, longer life. Utilize your special feature. Id run a watercooled turbo on anything if i could, becasue a cooler turbo is a better turbo. (the bearing part that is)

 

[Anonymous]

Not saying you won't, but listen to the voice of experience. They work fine 99% of the time with no water in them. (of all the guys I know that have run them).

Experience. I respect that a lot.