2nd Gen Non-Engine/Transmission Hot turbo!

[catoiler]

Just thought you guys would like to see a turbo in action. How would you like to have your bhaf next to that!:--)



Mike

 

[CumminsPower98]

Holy cow, that looks warm!!

 

[Deezul1]

Is that for real? that looks like some heavy EGTs

 

[LSMITH]

THAT is common at rated power for any period of time. Your truck STOCK wiill do that as well if you load it heavily for a while, as in pulling a western mountain pass.

 

[JHerrlich]

I can feel the radiated heat from here. I wonder what that would melt if it happened in our trucks.

 

[Deezul1]

Oh boy I had better get that turbo heat shield back on, thats unreal.

 

[cmonroe]

That reminds me of when my brother and I cranked out over 220hp on a 1. 8 turbo Subaru. It was on the verge of white, and you could see the heat exchange threw the housing as the blades turned inside. The turbo took about 15 minutes at idle to cool down, it lived, but the heads did not.

 

[dseabaugh]

In the late 70's and early 80's when I was driving over the road the Bull Haulers would pass me down in Florida. I would be running maybe 70-75 mph and they would just blow my doors off, maybe running 95+ and you could see the exhaust elbow and manifold glowing from under their cabs as they went by. The local International Dealer's shop forman told me some of those guys were rebuilding 855 Cummins motors every 30-50K miles burning them up that way. The truck I was driving had a Cummins 400 Big Cam with 580,000 miles and never touched. I kept trying to get the owner to put bearings in it but any way?



Our Farm Tractors would Get hot enough at night you could see the insides of the muffler when you were pulling hard through the orange glow of the outer shell

 

[Diesel Freak]

I have seen the stainless header pipe on my quad glow like that quite a few times.

 

[baby.driver]

Long time back, on a freeway in So. Cal late night I pulled alongside a Ford bobtail doing about 70mph. I was shocked to see a bright yellow exhaust manifold running down to a orange muffler and flame coming out the tailpipe about 2 feet!



Jay

 

[CumminsPower98]

I used to run a Ford 8000 farm tractor some and one night I was out late after dark disking a field and noticed that when I was on the throttle hard it about a 6" flame coming out of the stack. This stack is about 3. 5 to 4 feet long from the turbo to the top. I never did notice if the turbo or anything was red. I was probably not working it hard for a long enough period of time to make things red but who knows I didn't know to look.

 

[John Berger]

Color me skeptical

Any idea on how long that turbo lasted, being that hot. I can't believe it would last long. Imagine the damage to everything in the immediate vicinity, not to mention the oil that flows through the turbo to cool it. And I don't see no stinking cooling going on here. :-laf Cool picture, but I can't imagine to many conditions where we could do that to our trucks. And I don't think I would want to be in one that did. Officer, we have a situation here. In the Navy, we had a term for this: Class Delta fire. Solution: Jettison overboard. :--) :--)

 

[catoiler]

bigger pic is better!!

The really cool thing about this picture that you can't see that good in this pic is how the difference in the temp between the exhaust and intake. the intake side is a Lot cooler. don't know how long it lasted but just for fun we ran a 988F loader without the side curtain for a few minutes. it got to glowing pretty good. working at night has it's perks!

 

[Blakers]

Do you guys think this is a regular (visible light) photograph, or is it a photo taken with infrared film or some other means of showing the temperature difference?



Blake

 

[LSMITH]

This is NORMAL film, taken in NORMAL light, and is NORMAL for a diesel engine. It only takes a thousand degrees or so to make a turbo glow. They will all do it if worked hard enough.

 

[Motorhead]

My older brother worked at Garret Airesearch inthe turbo lab in the late 70's. He prototyped the Buick V6 turbo for GM. He told me that they would run those engines at full load and full throttle in test cells for days on end. He blew up a few! He told me that they would be orange like the Cat eng pic. They had one(GM 3. 8) that was testing and the wastegate line broke and the thing went to full boost. It started going into HEAVY detonation and blew. TURBOS are NEAT!!! Chris