Tuesday 19 July 2011

Water cooled turbo, now water cooled

I don't think I am going to win any prizes for my headline writing, but.

I've added water cooling to the turbo. My turbo bike buddies always talk about how they don't bother with water cooling. But in their installs the turbo sits right at the front in serious airflow. In my case the turbo is hidden from this airflow in the engine bay.

When I did the rebuild some of the oil was rather nasty. Sort of black and gloopy. I assume this is from heat damage. So adding a few water cooling pipes seems to make good sense. I had a few small leaks, but I think that I have now addressed them.

Pretty much time for an oil and filter change and then a test-drive.


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