Has anyone Liquid cooled thier RRM Turbo? If so how did you do it?

Thanks

 

Doesnt the rrm turbo come with an air to air intercooler. Are you talking about N-tercooler nitrous thing that hooks up to the intercooler?

 

If youre talking about oil and water cooled Talk to Boe i think he has it.

 

No, he is referring to the fact the gARRETT t28 Can be both water and oil cooled. I believe you would have to T off the radiator piping and could then bi-cool the turbo. Yep, Boe has done it..I believe he said it cost about 200 bucks...

 

Why would you want it liquid cooled too? Looking for another possible leak? I know DSMers plug the coolant holes when they upgrade. Its overkill on a part that will eventually fail regardless of your precautions.

 

I think Boe said something went so he had to add the other parts. Could be wrong though.

 

I have never heard of a DSM guy plugging up a coolant line to a 14b, unless they want to sieze it. And the words "upgrade" and "T25" have been rarely used in a 2G DSMers case.

 

Well the joint I bought my oil feed and return kit from in NJ (I can not find their site to save my life) gives out plugs for the antifreeze lines with their kits for DSMs running with a t-3 and other garrett turbos.

 

Do you remember the name of the company?

Water to air intercoolers (heat exchangers) tend to be more efficient with less surface area from what I understand. They also take up less space. I believe Turbotrix Racing is using a water to air intercooler on their shop car (or at least they were last article I read on it). I've never heard of any concerns in regard to leaking from any properly installed water cooling system either. They're also quite popular with turbocharged VW"s and Audis. As far as I know everyone's gone the popular, lower cost, lower complexity route of air to air intercooling.

That is if you mean intercooling. If you mean to cool the turbine's bearings then yeah...a few of the turbo people have used water cooling I believe. It's not terribly complicated or terribly expensive.

 

We are running the liquid to air intercooler... We were having problems with how we would run the turbo and the intercooler piping, and fit the downpipe. Using the liquid to air, eliminated us from having to put a front mount in very front. This is where we put the radiator....because the turbo sat out to far. Keep in mind its a dsm manifold we're using. I wouldnt recommend it for the street. .Unless u have an ice machine in your trunk. We have seen inlet temps as low as 40 degrees when its full of ice though.. But no matter what ..at the end of a pass .. they will climb above 120 .. on a hot day ...

Mark
Turbotrix

 

yet still no one has addressed the reason this thread was posted. i need to know my self cuz my rrm just got rebuilt. with out the water cooling it, it has fried itself along with nearly everygasket that connects to it