PWR A/W IC and water-cooled turbo

[samcat]

Originally Posted by Sandeep

I just ordered my IC today. Looks like I may need a second seperate water circuit for the turbo .... wonder if a 12v waterpump for water cooling home computers has enough flow capacity

Sandeep

Is not the flow thats the issue, its the temperature range of the liquid, most PC watercooling pumps WONT like the sort of temperatures it would see in this circuit.
Eheim 1250/1260 would be the most likely, but they are mains powered and have a lot of plastic...

Sam C

[scoobytuner]

dude, you dont have to run the water lines to that turbo at all. i reccommend not even hooking them up. the turbo does not need to be plumbed with water, just oil. Infact, I had a stock turbo on my built car for a while, and i ran it with no water going through it. the one thing you just have to make sure of is that you dont run it too hard, then shut it off right away, the oil would be too hot, and would cause problems.

but seriously dont even run water through it at all.

[volkdent]

Originally Posted by scoobytuner

dude, you dont have to run the water lines to that turbo at all. i reccommend not even hooking them up. the turbo does not need to be plumbed with water, just oil. Infact, I had a stock turbo on my built car for a while, and i ran it with no water going through it. the one thing you just have to make sure of is that you dont run it too hard, then shut it off right away, the oil would be too hot, and would cause problems.

but seriously dont even run water through it at all.

Yeah, they just spend a bunch of energy to engineer a turbo water cooling system for no reason !

Jason

[scoobytuner]

no, they do it so you dont have to idle your car for a minute before shutting it off.

believe me. ive done it and so have many others. with not one ill effect.

[verno-dub]

Originally Posted by scoobytuner

no, they do it so you dont have to idle your car for a minute before shutting it off.

believe me. ive done it and so have many others. with not one ill effect.

Quoted for truth. Adding the water lines to the turbo will add complexity to your install that you really dont need. But I would add a turbo timer to prevent coking the oil in the center turbo bearing section. I would also reccomend running a 5w/50w or 15w/50w synthetic, your turbo will thank you. I run it in my STi powered GC8 and I have heard no complaints.

[Sandeep]

Thanks for all of the feedback. I have to run a cooling system for the PWR intercooler so I thought I would tackle the turbo at the same time.

If I don't need it, then I won't mess with it. :agree:

Sandeep

[volkdent]

Sandeep, where did you get your PWR intercooler from? What size did you get? I had talked to a guy selling them off of Ebay awhile ago that I wanted to buy from, but he's not on now.

Any new progress?

Jason