hot side is hot

[rx7veilside]

turbo shd only be glowing red if u have given it some real hard runs  not from just a couple of quick bursts

[bnaellis]

i have a t70 single tubby, is it normal for the hot side to be glowing red hot, when i stop.  

i popped the bonnet and it was glowing away.  i havent been REALLY booting it, i was a little but not all the time.  i was only driving for about 20 mins.  (and it had been not run for about one and a half hours previous to that.  eg it will have cooled down majoritly by the time i got back in it)

like i said is this ok, are the bolts that go into the hot side supposed to be a white ish colour?

depends on ignition timing and fueling which would  also cause hotside to glow. You might be running a bit rich, a bit lean or a bit too retarded.

[Grizzly]

If i was you i\'d get it checked over, it may be nothing but it could also be Mixture,Timing etc so better to be safe than sorry.

[D1 WTF]

can anyone explain (with pics?) how a downpipe attaches to the turbo, a V clamp or something?

[Grizzly]

Basicly you have two flanges that in most cases are welded onto the end of the Down pipe and the hot side of the Turbo, when they are pushed together they form a V, then you put a Clamp round that that has the the same V shape pressed into it and when you tighten it up the clamp draws the two sides of the Flange together.

The Down side to this is its very easy to warp the Flanges when you weld them on, so you need to buy realy good quality V-bands.

[D1 WTF]

legend, cheers

[cruiser]

Is there any chance any portion of your exhaust would be clogged ? That could be one of the causes. Check for any exhaust restriction

[Grizzly]

I was chatting to a guy today and it was pointed out if an exhaust is leaking or has a hole in it then it will act like an Obstruction to a point (bad flow) if you can imagen, you have two peices of pipe you drill a 10mm hole in one and then test them with pressure going through then like an exhaust the pipe without the hole will flow more.

Can\'t say how much more but it will flow more but the unclean flow will make a diffrence.

[bally]

i have exsactly the same prob mate even down to the blowing exhaust i got mine booked in with hyeline in cardiff for a check on the settings i would recommend heat wrap works a treat

[Ed_RX7]

what t70 did you get?..hope it wasn;t a ebay special... I Would get you car checked out. you booting it should cause a decent t70 to do that. as it should flow without too much trouble.

[Grizzly]

Its funny there is so many diffrent types of T70 about you realy don\'t know what your going to get.

I had a T72 on a Half Bridge ages ago and that was realy laggy and was not nice at all so i droped down to a T66 which was better, anyway a mate bought a T70 and put it on his Extended Port FD and suprisingly it went well?? so i guess there is more than one with the name T70.

[kev-yorks]

Its funny there is so many diffrent types of T70 about you realy don\'t know what your going to get.
 
I had a T72 on a Half Bridge ages ago and that was realy laggy and was not nice at all so i droped down to a T66 which was better, anyway a mate bought a T70 and put it on his Extended Port FD and suprisingly it went well?? so i guess there is more than one with the name T70.

Trouble is its got to the point now, there doing copies of the copies. Wonder how many turbo\'s there are now out there based loosley on the garrett gt series?
Kevin

[Grizzly]

Trouble is its got to the point now, there doing copies of the copies. Wonder how many turbo\'s there are now out there based loosley on the garrett gt series?
Kevin

I have to sadly agree with this, you get a good product and its riped of so much with cheap C**p it gives it a bad name.

[88GT-R]

Please Pm me who did your mapping, and I will advise as applicable.
Cheers,

John

[D1 WTF]

my turbo is a turbo technics, bought and fitted by pip.  knowing pip and his work i would think that he knows the guy he buys all his turbos off and therefore trusts him.  i cant see pip messing up his reputation by selling cr4p turbos.