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You may have to use varsol as your windshield wiper fluid!
The only way that could be better is if you could see the impeller from the cockpit to watch it spool up.
Awesome!
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02-07-2010, 05:15 PM
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Unfortunately, glass exit pipes (it's not a downtube if it's pointing up...) wouldn't last very long... if the thermal shock didn't break it, it would melt under full load, at least start sagging.
Turbo's can spin up over 100,000 RPM under full boost conditions, and exhaust temperature can reach over 1,000* on the hot side of a cartridge. Oil coolers should not be overlooked in this case!
Via reading and watching/working on tuners and race cars, I've picked up on a cute euphemism for turbochargers in general - Lubricant Hell.
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02-08-2010, 09:47 AM
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Putting the exhaust through the hood is obscene... I love it! I am guessing that that will not be passing emissions or being used for street... You could always Y it off to the standard exhaust, right?
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02-08-2010, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by orange4boy
You may have to use varsol as your windshield wiper fluid!
The only way that could be better is if you could see the impeller from the cockpit to watch it spool up.
Awesome!
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Wait until you see it on anti lag.heheheh
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02-08-2010, 11:52 AM
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Unfortunately, glass exit pipes (it's not a downtube if it's pointing up...) wouldn't last very long... if the thermal shock didn't break it, it would melt under full load, at least start sagging.
Turbo's can spin up over 100,000 RPM under full boost conditions, and exhaust temperature can reach over 1,000* on the hot side of a cartridge. Oil coolers should not be overlooked in this case!
Via reading and watching/working on tuners and race cars, I've picked up on a cute euphemism for turbochargers in general - Lubricant Hell.
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Your right. Oil temps and type are a major concern.
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Putting the exhaust through the hood is obscene... I love it! I am guessing that that will not be passing emissions or being used for street... You could always Y it off to the standard exhaust, right?
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It will be a Y with one going to the normal exhaust and it will pass are emissions. Lucky we don't have a visual modification. 
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02-08-2010, 02:33 PM
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02-08-2010, 03:58 PM
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02-08-2010, 04:38 PM
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Hey, have you heard about a program called Desktop Dyno? I use it a lot to compare various performance modifications. Seems to me it would benefit your situation by allowing you to test a lot of virtual cams. The rest of your stuff sounds like it would be rather difficult to translate to the programming parameters, but the cam stuff should still work pretty well.
And this whole thread is cool as hell.
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Hey, have you heard about a program called Desktop Dyno? I use it a lot to compare various performance modifications. Seems to me it would benefit your situation by allowing you to test a lot of virtual cams. The rest of your stuff sounds like it would be rather difficult to translate to the programming parameters, but the cam stuff should still work pretty well.
And this whole thread is cool as hell.
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I have that program... the free version of it doesn't work all that great, and it takes forever to perform even low-resolution tests with multiple iterations, but it gives you an idea, I guess.
The paid version, supposedly, has much more "tunability" to it, so it should be more accurate.
Neither version allows "weird" stuff, though, like offset mains and such, or multiple cam profiles (a la Vtec, etc.), and things like that, and the free version doesn't give (as far as I know) any variability on AFR's, it just assumes that you'll be running in a "normal" way.
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02-08-2010, 06:10 PM
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Unfortunately, glass exit pipes (it's not a downtube if it's pointing up...) wouldn't last very long... if the thermal shock didn't break it, it would melt under full load, at least start sagging.
Turbo's can spin up over 100,000 RPM under full boost conditions, and exhaust temperature can reach over 1,000* on the hot side of a cartridge. Oil coolers should not be overlooked in this case!
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Ceramic glass can take 1000˚C and is resistant to thermal shock. I have windows on my kiln that regularly go to 1450˚F with room temp on the other side. They can formulate it to match the coefficient of expansion of the metal you are bonding it to and there are agents that can bond it to metal. No problem!
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