Draw through turbo icing trouble
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Draw through turbo icing trouble
Hi all, this is a shout out for help to all you lot running a draw through turbo set up on your air cooled cars
Who are you lot dealing with icing?
The temperature in the UK today fell to 4 degrees and I decided to take the bug out for a spin all was good for five minutes then I last the idle, then she started to run bad then she stalled. Had a look and the carb and intake before the turbo was covered in iced how are you lot over coming this ?
Who are you lot dealing with icing?
The temperature in the UK today fell to 4 degrees and I decided to take the bug out for a spin all was good for five minutes then I last the idle, then she started to run bad then she stalled. Had a look and the carb and intake before the turbo was covered in iced how are you lot over coming this ?
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
They all live in California
- buguy
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
Haha! I dont! I live in Florida!
I think a lot of guys are plumbing the oil line to the turbo either right on, maybe even in the intake. The heat from the oil keeps it toasty!
I think a lot of guys are plumbing the oil line to the turbo either right on, maybe even in the intake. The heat from the oil keeps it toasty!
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
Look for an oil heated intake manifold!
Better to be blown than to suck!
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
I have this manifold but I’m unsure of the thread size I know it’s not a BSP so I’m hoping it’s a NPT thread?
Also should be run the Oil line from the Oil pump up to the manifold then back down to the oil filter, if I do it would be easy cause it’s all 1/2” hoses or use the turbo oil feed but if I use that I would have to set up from a very small oil line to a 1/2” one so it will fit the manifold then set it down again to fit the turbo ?
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Also should be run the Oil line from the Oil pump up to the manifold then back down to the oil filter, if I do it would be easy cause it’s all 1/2” hoses or use the turbo oil feed but if I use that I would have to set up from a very small oil line to a 1/2” one so it will fit the manifold then set it down again to fit the turbo ?
Having issues posting photos
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
This is the only photo I can post
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
Yes that's a CarCraft intake. NPT
run the oil out of the pump to intake then back to the filter did this on my buggy ,SS braided line goin in Black hose coming out
run the oil out of the pump to intake then back to the filter did this on my buggy ,SS braided line goin in Black hose coming out
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
Cheers but unfortunately I can’t use it cause there just isn’t enough room between it and the fan shroud to put a union
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
OK , you have two choices, find a not so efficient 'slanted' fan shroud or take a grinder and 'Notch your shroud" for a 90* fitting?
and make it work
and make it work
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
I will make it work
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
You could do what all car manufacturers have done for the last 60 years. Build a loose fitting box around a couple exhaust header pipes out of sheet metal. Build a sheet metal box around your air filter, or install a Weber turbo hat. Connect the two with some of that high temp tinfoil looking flex tubing. Yes, it'll be ugly, but you can remove it in the Spring. If your icing up in just five minutes, I don't think piping oil to the intake is going to help. Crankcase oil doesn't heat up that fast when it is really cold outside.
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
Good idea
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Re: Draw through turbo icing trouble
Looking into that now