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Turbo beanies trap the heat, when shutting the engine down the car should idle for a set period of time to let the cooler water and oil to pass through the turbo. This stops the oil and water almost boiling inside your turbo killing your bearings.
A turbo timer does this trick automatically.
You mention heat soak. ( Remembering that turbos beanies only block radiant heat, not conductive ) Best described as heat transferring from the exhaust side of the turbo to the compressor side of the turbo heating your air that's being fed into your engine. Everyone has their theory on how much it does heat the compresser core up.
A intercooler will eliminate that, as the "warm" air that's now being heated up by the turbo passes through the intercooler.
The plus side to a turbo beanie is it traps that heat into the turbo, and we all know heat= energy. Some even go as far as saying that the turbo will spool faster. I don't think the difference would be noticeable, but im no expert.
We have them beanie's on every thing at work and they have caused that many issue's it's not funny with melting things and fire's from oil leaks getting soaked up by nappy, conditions are alot different to underground and gear is differnt to patrol's but just be careful of were all the heat goes!
That said, bigger turbo planned to go on it as the current one too small and generating too much heat ... Going to a 3.25" exhaust also, and complete remap of the fuel ... sucker for punishment really!! lol
The new turbo is a Garrett, but insure of model ....
Big power and torque are being achieved, but the heat produced from the small turbo is ridiculous, so not seeking more power as such (should be a side benefit though) bit more efficiency.
Hey Scott have you already got the turbo? if so post up the serial number and i can tell you model and size.
If you haven't already brought one, are you open to other turbos apart from Garrett? Only reason i ask is Precision turbos make some really really good pieces including anti surge compresser housing and Billet core!
What rear housing are you going to use? 1.06? or .82?
Turbo cover accelerate cooked oil in turbo galleries from extra heat soak.
heard storys of guys removing them after a run to help prevent troubles.
Kinda a pain you know where !!!
Bonnet vents should be helping to keep things under control bigrig ?
Hey lads - haven't got the vents in, but they go in this week, so yeah mate, that should help with the temps. Definitely too small a turbo also, so going to go something bigger so it doesn't struggle as much ..
Les - know nothing about turbo models mate, so any assistance in that space would be greatly appreciated!!!
and fitted the carbon fibre dash pod and gauges this week also (oil temp and boost).
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