Turbo pic...

[catoiler]

I posted this a while back and thought some of the new guys would get a kick out of it! [/IMG]#ad

 

[patcarman]

looks like a c-15, its not a acert zause it only has one turbo... looks cool

 

[rkressg]

Lets see, steel that color (if the photo is correct) is around 2000-2100 deg. A little hotter and it will be ready for forging. That is really hot. Wonder what the EGTs are like there.

-Rich

 

[rholcom2]

Thanks, thats really cool, looks to be a new pic for the desktop... . at least for a few days!!! The guys here at the jobsite get a kick out of the pic's I use on my desktop.

 

[CumminsBu]

A bigger turbo? Maybe?

 

[nickleinonen]

sweet... i've seen the manifolds on my GE locomotive engines get to that duller red color when we had a bad turbo, but never to the yellow color stage... they trying to match the manifold to the cat yellow paint??? :-laf

 

[rashwor]

Looks like it is warmed up and ready for a drive! :--)

 

[MKoth]

Looks a lot like the poor DT530 we had on the dyno at school. Post turbo EGT's would get way over 1500 degrees...



Turn the lights off and you could see the turbo blades spinning.

 

[98rammer]

Looks a lot like the poor DT530 we had on the dyno at school. Post turbo EGT's would get way over 1500 degrees...



Turn the lights off and you could see the turbo blades spinning.

did any of the intstructers insert a piece of paper into the turbo while doing the dyno test?

 

[MMiller]

Catoiler-what conditions did it take to get the turbo that hot? I have seen some tweaked 3406B's on the dyno at work get the exhaust housing red and the manifolds a little, but nothing like that. Is that just a stock Cat setup, or is it a "see what she'll do" setup?



Just wondering, I like the pic.



Michael

 

[AMink]

Just pour some water on it. It'll cool RIGHT down! That's a neat pic. The pistons probably are glowing in the dark, too.

 

[bgilbert]

I've seen Duramaxes with either their downpipes or collector, whatever it is that is viewable from the passenger side get very close to that color at truck pulls.

 

[pwerwagn]

I have a video somewhere of a Mazda miata motor that was making like 470hp and it was glowing like that. then poof, a big hole in the housing.

cool pic.

--Jeff

 

[bgilbert]

Thats also a good example of the temp difference between pre and post turbo... .

 

[catoiler]

I don't know the picture came off a disc from Caterpillar.

Catoiler-what conditions did it take to get the turbo that hot? I have seen some tweaked 3406B's on the dyno at work get the exhaust housing red and the manifolds a little, but nothing like that. Is that just a stock Cat setup, or is it a "see what she'll do" setup?



Just wondering, I like the pic.



Michael

 

[EMD Diesel Power]

I used to have a screensaver from CAT that had this picture in it. Computer crashed and my backup file was screwed up somehow so I lost it all.



Engine is a c-15 pre-Acert. I want to say I had the screensaver back in 2001 or before. Pretty cool.

 

[catoiler]

Yep that's the one it came off!

 

[CPjMech]

That pic was actually taken in '92 or '93 on the CAT test cell on a pre-production 3406E truck eng. Just about any 475-550hp will do that on the dyno down around 1100/1200rpm :-laf

 

[nickleinonen]

sweet... i've seen the manifolds on my GE locomotive engines get to that duller red color when we had a bad turbo, but never to the yellow color stage... they trying to match the manifold to the cat yellow paint??? :-laf

and i had my camera phone on me today... not the greatest picture quality, but i had a ge fdl16 that had a bad turbo. only making 25psi boost under full load [~4300hp] so the manifolds were glowing good [and the turbo was nasty loud sounding]

 

[Signal73]

wow too bad this thread is SO OLD i cant see the original pic