Hey, just a thought while I was rebuilding my turbo, Has anyone ever tried putting something colder than the antifreeze through the coolant lines to the throttle body. I was thinking like something like alchohol injection, where you could switch it on for drag racing or something like that, or use freon. Is this feasible? I understand it would get hot after a while due to no radiator to cool it, but just for maybe 1/4 mile runs at the track.
Can't wait to get this turbo back on, went and ported and polished the turbo. Even polished the outside of it, looks really sweet!
Originally posted by redhotrod Hey, just a thought while I was rebuilding my turbo, Has anyone ever tried putting something colder than the antifreeze through the coolant lines to the throttle body. I was thinking like something like alchohol injection, where you could switch it on for drag racing or something like that, or use freon. Is this feasible? I understand it would get hot after a while due to no radiator to cool it, but just for maybe 1/4 mile runs at the track.
Can't wait to get this turbo back on, went and ported and polished the turbo. Even polished the outside of it, looks really sweet!
I have unhooked my throttle body coolant lines from the stock hook-up, I now use the two 5/16" Steel stubs on the heater pipes to cool water jacket turbo bearing housing,
BUT I have a home-made Cooling system on my HOT air TURBO RIVIERA,
I have a 6 pack cooler behind the driver side headlight location Filled with Washer fluid and Bulge pump, THE pump has two circuits of cooling paths, One is 10 feet of 5/16" copper tubing wrapped around my turbo intake adapter, then plumbed into my throttle body coolant lines, The other cooling path is a 4"X 4" cast conduit box with a blank cover and (2) 1/2" pipe thread hubs on it SITTING on top of the Hot air INTAKE. THE first circuit returns through a front mount transmission cooler, I can put cold packs in the Cooler also.
THIS sounded like a good idea a the time, how much it helps ANYTHING is up for debate!!
