460 turbo truck

Here's some rules to live by for turbocharging.

Never, ever, consider buying a turbo from a diesel engine to use on your gasoline engine
The reason: diesel turbochargers do NOT have compressor inlet bearing seals.
The vacuum from a carburetor will draw lube oil through the compressor bearing seal until the crankcase runs out of oil!!



what the hell is this guy talking about ?!

stillnoturbo

Let him live by it and thats one less boosted idiot on the road.

Smith-02

if it's not posted on hmt, it's pure nonsense. we are the know-alls of anything that has to do with cars.

0b00st0

This is referring to draw-through carb setups. With draw-through setups there is vacuum in the compressor housing at idle and such so it can draw the oil past the seals.

The dynamic one-piece compressor seal solves this problem. It's that older carbon seals that had this problem.


however, you don't have to worry about this if you aren't carb'd or are running a blow-through setup.

460 turbo truck

speaking of know it alls.

TED... freakin ...call me or somethin


i couldn't for the life of me understand how this thing would be any differnent from any other turbo, it's gotta have an oil supply and drain ...just like every other turbo out there,

some people man....maybe i outta get the book ....

Turbochargers by Hugh MacInnes


that's the problem, i will be running a blow thru carb setup

Cadracer

whats the damn number my cell doesnt work.Didnt pay the bill
lol

460 turbo truck

PM'ed

0b00st0

You're fine then. You can run any of the seal setups.

460 turbo truck

meaning ..which turbos ??

i'm not fully understanding this ?!

0b00st0

Meaning any turbo will be fine (sized properly of course :P). You only have to worry if you are using a draw-through carb setup. You are using blow-through so it doesn't matter which sela the turbo has.