water cooled turbo

[T-Punk]

do i need to use a seperate radiator system or is the water from the standard radiator cool enough to keep the flaming hot turbo under control.

[micyek]

heh...your gonna be tired of hearing about DSM's from me soon...LOL

on my DSM I have the turbo's water system tapped off the engines cooling system. What I did is I spliced into the heater core supply line. It;s just the easiest way for that paticular car....could be for f-bodys too because the turbo needs a similar sized line as the heater core lines.


And considering you can run a turbo without it being watercooled I think it'll be just fine. [img]smile.gif[/img] I don't know how are cooling system would handle the adtional heat though...but I'm willing to bet that would be fine too.

[T-Punk]

no im not sick of your DSM yet, right now its helped me out a lot :D . so keep the info comin. right now im working with flex tube to find the best path for each turbo to run back up front.

[oil pan 4]

I taped the rear of the (3.4L) intake manifold where there are water passages that don't get used. So that I can drive the coolant through the turbos from the pressure side of the coolant system to the non pressure side.
I taped them with 1/4'' NTP for 6AN fittings. Ther is one tap for each turbo from the L and R side of the engine.
What I was going to do after there installed was put a temp gauge where the lines come together after the turbos before it renters the coolant system so if it is to hot I can put a cooler in line before the turbos so the coolant can enter the turbos a little bit cooler.
The water from the radiator won't heat them up any that's for sure.