turboed26

What if you had a small radiator (oil cooler) with a fan on it next to the vehicles radiator with a small water pump going to the cooling system on the turbo?

jinxy

you'd get laughed at.

AWDstylez

It's called a water cooled center section and it uses your stock cooling system. I guess you could make a separate system for it, but is it really worth the time, money, weight, and space? Anyways, water cooling is for BB owners and gay people only.

turboed26

are you telling me that none of the automobile killers on this site use the water side of the turbo? mine both do.

turboed26

what if the turbo was a dry sump type stytem and had its own. you know didnt use the engines oil or have to deal with its heat.

jinxy

the engines oil is not hot, it is the same temperature as the water give or take a few degrees and that is the temperature it is designed to operate in.

AWDstylez

Your idea means well, but it comes down to "if it aint broke, don't fix it" thing. A turbo will out last your car being cooled off the engine's oil like they have been for decades, so what are you gaining by adding a separate cooling/oiling system? Less load/heat on your engine's oil is the only thing I could think of, but you could probably get the same benefit with much less complexity and cost just using an oil cooler.

Make a closed system turbo oiler/cooler and then tell us what kind of engine oil/coolant temps you see before and after.

rexsk8er

uh, oil is designed to operate at a specific heat range(hence the numbers indicating heatrange). a seprate dry sump/oil cooling system would keep the oil way too cool, and i belive you would actually loose power because the turbo has much more resistance because the oil is much more viscous

spekter

I dunno. I would think that any oil cooler is a good oil cooler. The heat ranges that oil is designed to work at are pretty wide. It is best to keep it at the lowest possible temp you can while still keeping it in its designed heat range. I believe the second number in a motor oils specification (the "30" in 10w30) is supposed to be its performance over like 120 degrees. This gives us an indication of the lower end of its designed heat range. Does anyone know at about what temp oil starts coking? That would be a bit above the high end of the designed range.

turboed26

Yeah i see what your saying. For what i would gain in performance I would lose in the added weight and it probably wont help a damn thing.