blocking off water supply
hey im new here and ive been reading alot around here, i love the site, i gotta a ?...i just got my T3 and it came off a 93 saab 9000. and i didnt know it was water cooled. this is kinda of a pain for me i would just rather have oil cooled. is there anyway i can block off the water supply to the turbo and just make it so that its oil cooled??any help would be apreciated
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yeah u can u just get some brass plugs at the auto parts store..
use white teflon on em. |
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why do you need to block it off? couldn't you just run it open?
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well i didnt think of that...does anyone think it would hurt the turbo in anyway since there isnt any water going through it???
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You don't need the water. Just don't use it if you don't want to.
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there is a line to your throttle body (3/8" coolant line) just get two 90 degree barbed to barbed 3/8" fittings, some hose clamps, and 6 feet of 5/16" fuel line (it's a bitch to get on the fittings so do them off the car, they'll go into the stock line easier. you use 5/16" cause the coolant lines on the turbo are 5/16" and 3/8" might leak
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I say run the coolant. For the 20 bucks and hours worth of time you wil spend you are keeping your turbo much cooler than if you just plugged up the hole. You would also negate the need to install a turbo timer.
just my .02 |
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Run the coolant. Its a great feature to not use. And is very easy to hook up. And will increase the life of your turbo.
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Originally Posted by bambooseven
there is a line to your throttle body (3/8" coolant line) just get two 90 degree barbed to barbed 3/8" fittings, some hose clamps, and 6 feet of 5/16" fuel line (it's a bitch to get on the fittings so do them off the car, they'll go into the stock line easier. you use 5/16" cause the coolant lines on the turbo are 5/16" and 3/8" might leak
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I would think your water pump would be able to keep things moving well enough.
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That is a good trick to know.... It was one of the dozen or so things I was thinking about in the back of my mind. :P
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could you just plug the bottom and fill with coolant, then plug the top? don't know, figured that would be better then running no coolant at all or just plugging them.
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heck that would cause the coolant in there to boil out and spew on your motor, not my idea of a good time ;D
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Woudn't that create a whole hell of a lot of pressure too? :-X
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Originally Posted by Wally
Woudn't that create a whole hell of a lot of pressure too? :-X
yes u would blow the plugs out. |
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okay bad idea, lol
what about oil??lol |
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just hook up the lines or don't do anything at all, don't try schemin and filling it with somthing, you will just do damage.
What's everyones favorite line to tee into? The throttle body? I don't like the idea of turbo-heated water flowing through my TB/IM. You guys are all ok with this? Doesn't it heat your charge? |
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It really only takes 15 mins to tap your cooling system. I'll explain the easiest way to do it. Off the bottom of your throttle body or Idle air control valve you have 5/16 cooling lines. These have coolant in them. Pick one.. any one you want really, cut it in half. Now you have 2 lines sitting there, run one line to one side of the cooling section on the turbo, and the other line to the other side of the turbo, In any order, it does not matter which way coolant flows through the center section. Your just putting the Center section INLINE with the cooling system. But if you are really lazy and dont want to, that also works, you dont need to plug the holes on the center section, its an open chamber just for coolant, so nothing will leak out.
Bamboo is right, 3/8's are just to big for my taste.. Jeff |
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