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how many of you with the thunderturd 60/63's run the coolant lines to it because they are in kind of fucked up spots on the center section. i ran them on my thunderbird ihi because they are straight up and down from each other but the garrett ones are spaced like 2" apart because the put the drain in between them.

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I don't see what the problem is.

Whatever their orientation is it's not hard to connect.

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yea they arnt hard to hook up but i know that they came with them connected and its good to run them but honestly does it really matter i just dont want my already cramped engine bay cluster fucked with more lines,hoses,ect. and i want to know out of the people that run this turbo if they had reliabilty issues because they didnt run them

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I need to ad this to the faq, I thought this was common knowledge...

You don't need to run them if you're not hitting high boost levels then shutting your car right off.

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ok im not trying to argue but more understand. these turbo's mentioned above were factory fitted with coolant lines to survive higher boost scenarios ok i got that but what about turbo's of the same era that were not factory fitted with the coolant lines and are oil only how do they survive at higher boost levels and shutting the car off afterwords? i know i dont have to run them but just trying to get a better understanding of how it makes that big of a difference. ran or not run

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Don't waste your time.

I run the same turbo that was on an auto T-bird with no coolant lines. It's just an extra safeguard from the factory to help cool the turbo down from dumbasses that have no idea that boosting hard before you turn the car off can cause the oil to coke and cause damage to the turbo.

Just use common sense and you don't have to worry.

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definatly i run the auto t-bird turbo now and i have the lines hooked up so everthing is run already just wanted to fully understand that if i did do away with them that its not cutting the reliabilty factor down or possibly in half. do you run a turbo timer? i thought about adding one in if i did do away with them.

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just sit in your car for 1 min, its a hmt turbo timer

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^^^^thats what i do. or drive the last mile home like grandpa. turbo timer...pfffffffft

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OR just don't boost your way to hell to your house or wherever you end up parking.

No turbo timer, or sitting in your car is necessary.

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I usually rape the hell out of the thing non-stop, never let it cool down after beating on it. Last time I took the turbo apart.....lets just say tony yayo would be jealous of the amount of coke on the shaft. I polised it up threw it back together and beat on it just as bad. big deal in the event its not fixable I'll just spend another $25 and get another at the junkyard, thats the best thing about chrysler's mitsubishi TEO4H's. I trip over them walking through the junkyards.

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My local pick'n'pull are loaded with those things. I tried one time to get one off and i was a pain in the arse and just gave up. Usually when I try to get things off and they ---- me up the ass I just beat the thing down like Reginald Deny. If I can't have it then noone gets it! lol. I know people hate this ---- but it's out of pure anger. Not just to piss people off. :7

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I probably won't run coolant lines again unless I had a really fancy turbo and then I'd use all SS braided lines.

I had water lines on my last setup (14b) and one of the coolant lines started to leak... I almost got stranded on the highway on a 100+ degree day. For a junkyard setup its just another failure point in the system. Don't bother.

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I'm not running them to my T3 Nissan. I figure if I cook it, its a good excuse that I can give my wife to buy a new t3/t4. mwahahaha. >:D

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You know she would never let you do that!!!!

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The coolent lines are not only used when the car is running, they serve a purpose even when the engine is shut off. Once the exhaust stops flowing its no longer bringing the heat away from the turbo, now that thing is cast ------- iron and it heats up like a fat bitch trying to run the mile. The coolent lines are heat transfering tubes that are hooked into a network of water/coolent that your engine and radiator houses. All that water takes a little bit of your turbo's heat.

Having said that I run a t-bird pump and have never run water lines to it ::)