Turbo Timers

[Kimberley Scott]

A tangent maybe, but if the Garret web site says its not necceasry, Ford say the same, knowligible blokes say it, but you wont listen. .

Scotty

[arronm]

I never visit the Maccas car park so I definitely don't need one.

[xrdreaming]

Agent orange that's cool, I have had a few turbos too, early skylines and the single turbo MZ21 Soarer (7mgte engine) and I ran turbo timers on them.

I did just find this on the Garrett website :

To minimize the effects of heat soak-back, water-cooled center housings were introduced. These use coolant from the engine to act as a heat sink after engine shutdown, preventing the oil from coking. The water lines utilize a thermal siphon effect to reduce the peak heat soak-back temperature after key-off. The layout of the pipes should minimize peaks and troughs with the (cool) water inlet on the low side. To help this along, it is advantageous to tilt the turbocharger about 25° about the axis of shaft rotation.

So there it is from Garrett direct. It's not for you to read mate it is for anyone else who questioned thermo-siphon on Garrett turbos.

[AGENT ORANGE]

Are you interested in doin the temperature of the water temp test if you have the equipment is enough to conduct on your software, im interested to know how well it can take the heat out of the water in 10mins does the sypher work for hours on end or shorter?

I understand its closed loop and it filters coolant through. I do totally agree with you, skyline use of turbo timer was due to its poor ceramic exhaust wheel design more so. I believe the 7M has the same make up with ceramic wheel also CT12 hence the hiflow was a good option along with a 1JZ lol

I know the subies had VF12s an they had no probs running 20psi from stock that's pretty good for a turbo from 89.

So using the thermo stuff is meant to prevent the heat soak peak that usually got for the first 15min inside the turbo?

Edited 19/03/08 01:33 PM by AGENT ORANGE

[TurboDewd]

turbo timers are for old-tech jap cars. Fitting one to an XR6T is a joke. The evidence is abundant.

[Azid Rush]

more people in here that are arrogant and wont listen to knowbody even though there intelligence on the matter is severely limited

[Dillz]

The way I see it is fair enough XRT's don't need them but it's not going to hurt having one so what is the problem?

I still let my car calm down after spirited driving.

[R-SPEC]

I'll admit I did buy one before taking delivery of my car and still haven't installed it, however after reading the facts and waking up to the latest technology I'm going to sell it and put it towards a tune. (Let me know if you're in the market for one lol)

[Azid Rush]

so the 4 pages of this topic have made no sense to you? The facts have been put threw, theres no denying the facts. You dont NEED one in the xr6t's, as matter of fact, if you have time on your hands you dont NEED a tt on any car. But if you already have one why sell it?

This thread may aswell have been left closed. There is some useful information in this thread and yet nobody reads it and actually absorbs it, more just read it and think meh im just changing my opinion even though im wrong.

You can go on about thermosyphon stuff all you want, fact still remains that you cant drive your car, turn it straight off and expect this wonderful, amazing thermosyphon to keep your turbo in good nick, pfft try if you want to, your problem for being ignorent

[TOM1111]

your wrong azid but you just cant admit it

even garret says you dont need a TT

also who who flogs there car and then instanly turns it off???

no one that's who