PG Turbos?? Re: <VV> Re: TURBO BENT VANES
FrankCB at aol.com
FrankCB at aol.com
Tue Sep 11 11:17:17 EDT 2007
Tim,
Actually, you CAN have Corvair turbos WITH powerglides. I think it was
Billy Bruce who ran his turbo PG at the dragstrip at the Louisville, KY
Convention and set the FTD of around 13 seconds for the quarter mile. And
personally I think turbos are a GREAT match with automatic transmissions. How else
can you make boost even BEFORE the car begins to move?? Just remember when
you do this you're dumping lots of HP into the auto trans fluid which raises
its temp VERY fast. Better use synthetic ATF.
Frank "if it don't go, blow it" Burkhad
In a message dated 9/10/2007 3:48:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, N2VZD at aol.com
writes:
the turbos i rebuilt with bent , cracked vanes also showed signs of lack of
lube somehow , or gold wear on the shafts from dirty oil or such. the oil
was
black or some such lack of care. basically it was something that slowed the
vanes somehow when the engine exhaust was super hot...or a goodly dose of
carbon or rust went thru . make sure of good oil feed and open drain pipe.
one
had a print of a small screw in a vane. if carbon was built up under the
exhaust impeller , or bearing was very loose ..it could grab and slow or
stop the
vanes sudden like. there are a lot of tolerances that can cause this ,
loose
or tight. there is a lot to it!
been there done that , sold all my tools and went powerglides...
regards, tim colson
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