Morning guys,

I am a relative newbie on here. Been hanging around for a while, but this is my first post. I am the sales manager for Turbo Technics, and have just bought myself an STI RA. It's not my first venture into Scooby ownership, as i had bought my first RA two weeks ago, which then got stolen on the second night of ownership!!!! However, thanks to Collin at Thames Valley Motorsport, i now have a second RA.

Incidentally, if any of you need any help with turbos, or any general engine enquiries, feel free to ask and i'll help where i can. I have built a number of fast cars (including and 800bhp GTO), but i am still a relative "newbie" to the world of scooby's, other than what i have to deal with every day.

Nice to meet you all.

Dan

 

Hi Dan

Welcome to ScoobyNet ...........

I have a general question to ask that you may know the answer to .......

Given regular Oil changes, and sympathetic treatment (allowing a Turbo to cool down and not to spool up when too the oil is too cold) .........

What is the generally held belief of the life of a Turbo in miles??

Pete

 

Hi Pete,

On plain bearing turbos, i would expect between 80-100,000 miles on a standard turbo running standard boost. Unfortunately, each car has it's own faults, so certain models can fail much earlier, whereas some seem to be particularly strong. Mitsubishi turbo's are quite hardy, whereas IHI's tend to be a little more fickle. There are, however, so many factors that affect the overall performance and life of a turbo, and as you quite rightly put, regular oil changes with good quality oil, and proper warm up and warm down periods are critical.

I have quite a few basic guidleines that i can post up, if required, that may be of use to anyone looking to get the best out of their turbos.

Dan

 

Post them up, Dan!!

When you said IHI's turbos .... did you mean FHI's?? ie. Subaru Turbos?

If not ... what is your take on the robustness of the Impreza Turbo?

Pete

 

IHI is the maker of the VF range of turbochargers used on subarus, Mitsubishi make the td range of turbochargers.

Both the Td04's and Td05's are hardy little turbos, that seem to wear very well. The IHI range are a little more prone to failure, due to their design and overall dependance on oil quality, but on the impreza range don't seem to do too badly.

I will make a seperate post in the Technical section that outlines some basic guidelines on turbo care.

Dan

 

Oh well Pete looks like your turbo will expire within the next couple of weeks

Welcome to ScoobyNet Dan

 

Welcome Dan

 

Welcome

 

Lucky you have the Td04 on your car Pete, strong little turbo those, and my turbo still going strong after 17k miles.

 

Wotto Dan

For my sins,I'm also in the Turbo charger Business....albeit on Ships tho

somewhat larger than those piddley little TD05's lol

altho both IHI and Mitsubishi do make them for those 66,000 hp rated Container Ship engines.

Jon

 

Now I want one of those!! Any chance you can bodge one to fit a scooby??

 

If the lag didn't kill ya,the 1/4 million dollar overhaul bills might

 

welcome dan

hope to see you at QE on sunday

luke(evo 6)

 

welcome Dan

 

Holset make better turbo's

Perfect for some of the 3000 hp engines i usually see

 

No it wont, Pete's car never gets above 3,000 rpm so has had 0 miles use

 

Welcome to the empty wallets club!

it wouldn't matter if you could fit a container ship's turbo to a Scooby, the max'd brigade would still claim their corsa was faster!!

NS04

 

Welcome along Dan, nice to see you. What is a twin scroll turbo then as fitted on these new age cars ?