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Old 08-10-2009, 04:36 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by RETed View Post
I think that's a very low pressure area of the cooling system, so it'll be a very inefficient system (for the turbo coolant flow).

I think Mazda desgined their system so that the turbo coolant feed line was as short as possible?

It doesn't matter if the coolant is a little over 200F versus maybe maybe 50F degrees cooler...
The turbo (CHRA) gets a LOT hotter than that.
The reason to run coolant through the turbo is to keep the oil from coking in the center.
We're talking preventing the oil from hitting 300F+.


-Ted
Nicely put Ted, but don't non water cooled turbo CHRA's see way above 300 degrees?

Are they designed differently to reduce coking?
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