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Location: Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
Registered: January 2003
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Re: turbo timers?
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Wed, 09 November 2005 17:09

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after a (very) short think, about all it will do of benefit is stop oil cooking and becoming solid in the oil galleries of the turbo.. which in turn blocks them, starves turbo of oil and then it dies...
as for the metal parts, i can't see how they would benefit from cooling down for a minute...
in the 20 or 30 second sit takes to park (or whatever) they will cool quickly from whatever temp to something more sane... perhaps when you stop dead after a dyno run there may be some expansion issues with the metal (more likely the manifold) but the impellers themselves have to cope with so much more abuse when being driven than just after they are stopped...
when you nail the throttle.. there is no cooling .. they get hot...
so anyway, surely the only real reason is to circulate oil until the turbo will not cook it???
(sorry, just trying to put some science into the myth )
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