PG Turbos?? Re: <VV> Re: TURBO BENT VANES

[FrankCB at aol.com]

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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