plumbing in the gt17 water cooling
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i'm stuggling to find a definative answer to my question, firstly does the water flow in or out of the head at no.4? (heater takeoff)
and could i run water out of no.4 then through turbo and in of bottom hose?
basicaly plumb the turbo in place of the heater?
thanks lee

Edited by supermotolee on 22nd Oct, 2012.

Speeding is like masturbating, everyone does it, but not all of us film it and put it on the internet

[quote=fab,8th Oct, 2010]fuck off

Come out of of the the block at the back 4 to the turbo then from the turbo to the top of the rad. You will have to make a fitting to fit the top of the rad or solder a piece of pipe in.
hope this helps

Edited by dig-mini on 22nd Oct, 2012.

Craig

my mini van http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=448248

i understand this is one method of plumbing it in, but what i wanted to know is can i plumb it in the way i described above? or will this cause me problems? if so i'l just not bother with the water
thanks lee

Speeding is like masturbating, everyone does it, but not all of us film it and put it on the internet

[quote=fab,8th Oct, 2010]fuck off

if a turbo needs a water feed, then you must plumb it in or else you will more than likely get a fucked turbo after a short time.

As Steve says,that's how mine runs - out of head,heater,turbo,back into bottom hose.BUT I have an electric cooling fan which runs on after shutdown and cools the rad.without it on I get localised boiling from the turbo waste heat.

'Where does the engine go?'

steve, this is what lee and i were discussing last night but what is the point of dumping the turbo water into the bottom hose as it will never see the rad; well not on that duration as the water pump will just suck it back into the block. i know some cooling is better than none but it just doesn't seem logical :p neither of us run heaters either.

btw as a side question. if you have an electric pump can you use it to pump no4 with cooler water from the rad assuming you have a "different" feed for the turbo?

Edited by t@z on 23rd Oct, 2012.

Agree with t@z, if it is going through the turbo you should bring the waterline back to the thermostat housing or top radiator for cooling.

The heater returns to the bottom hose as the heater matrix is cooling the water, every Mini owner should know this on hot summer days

Actually I was thinking myself to make a pipe under the heater valve to take the cooling water for the turbo with a return pipe to the thermostat housing

This should improve as well the waterflow around cylinder number 4

Yes you have a point, I have just plumb. One in and fitted a bike rad under the alternater popped the flow in there from the turbo and out to the Bottom hose..... works just fine!

Route it back into the top hose as this runs at a lower pressure as it is downstream of the thermostat. You also cool all the water in the circuit that way and you get a decent flow.

I cut up a bottom hose to make a top hose with a suitable branch.

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Thanks guys I will run it as planned see how I fare, don't wanna try and re invent te wheel here just make a neat install

Speeding is like masturbating, everyone does it, but not all of us film it and put it on the internet

[quote=fab,8th Oct, 2010]fuck off

someone can put a sketch or drawing?

Haha smart ass

I have started posting on Instagram also my name on there is turbomk1golf

Nothing is impossible it just costs more and takes longer.

I mean like putting water pipes turbo, I have and I have bolque drilling the thermostat cover underground but not as plugging (sorry but I use google translator and Spanish here is very difficult to find information

I drilled the bung at the back -> turbo -> mpi mini sandwich plate.

Took me a while to get my head around the water circuit, but tbh with you my temps are never above normal (apart from when the heater tap exploded but thats something else)

Mine just returnd into the bottom hose, never had any temp issues

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

thanks