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Old November 17th 2005, 14:09
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Originally Posted by scoobytuner
dude, you dont have to run the water lines to that turbo at all. i reccommend not even hooking them up. the turbo does not need to be plumbed with water, just oil. Infact, I had a stock turbo on my built car for a while, and i ran it with no water going through it. the one thing you just have to make sure of is that you dont run it too hard, then shut it off right away, the oil would be too hot, and would cause problems.

but seriously dont even run water through it at all.

Yeah, they just spend a bunch of energy to engineer a turbo water cooling system for no reason !

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