5kcdtq Turbo

[Larry C Leung]

Since the radiator has a fan, it'll do it's work irregardless. The oil
cooler is fanless though, so driving around is a good idea to get air to
run through it (there's one advantage of the oil-water coolers like in
the A2 GTi's. Of course they had their leakage problems....

LL - NY

On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:16:49 EST JShadzi at aol.com writes:
>A gravity flow of "what" back to the pan, you mean oil?  Don't forget
>that
>oil is supplied to the turbo via 5 bar pressure, it ain't going to go
>into
>that turbo on its own.
>
>Heat will cause convection in the water jacket, however, but a glowing
>red
>hot turbo needs to be run down, boiling coolant doesn't do much for
>conducting heat away from a hot turbo, no matter how quickly its
>convecting.
>
>I always make it a habit to drive off boost the last mile or minute
>of
>driving assuming there are some speeds to get some air through the
>front of
>the car so the radiator and oil cooler can do thier work.  =)
>
>Javad
>
>In a message dated 1/6/2002 7:24:09 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>crankshaft at adelphia.net writes:
>
><< (like, "spirited driving" and then sut the engine right off with
>glowing
> turbo)
>
> Is this really true? I would think the heat of the turbo itself would
>create
> a gravity flow
> back to the pan. I heard people call that an old wives tale.
>Opinions
> anyone?
>
> Aaron
>  >>