[urq] Re: Water Cooled Turbos - should be water jacketed turbos

[Huw Powell]

> That said, the comment would indicate that the procedure of "coasting" vs
> idling really has little merit in the context of water vs air/oil/convection.
>  Let the car idle before shutdown, the longer the better.  When I had my old
> GLH turbo, the boys in the engineering department indicated that 2 fan cycles
> was a good guildline (since the heat is drawn into the engine and coolant
> system rather quickly, the off mode is key to knowing that the turbo is in
> the cool down phase).

I used to just wait until the oil temp was back down to about 100 deg C
on my '83 5kt.  But that was a pretty "low tech" car...

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Huw Powell

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