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Quick Turbo V6

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Does anybody make a turbo screen? I need something to put between the turbo exhaust inlet, to catch any debris from the exhaust side that might hurt the wheel. This is going on a turbo sled(2 stroke). Or any screen that would stand the heat?

Thanks,
Scott
 
Not sure about a screen. High temperatures to work with thats for sure. If you have your intake filtered well that will keep much of anything airborn from hurting the turbo. Only reason a screen in the turbine would be useful is if your spark plug ground electrode were to come off or a ring land were to break, or something along those lines. Use surface gap spark plugs and you wont hve to worry about the electrode breaking off.

On the turbine housing i believe that some are designed to keep debris from hitting the turbine somehow, but i dont remember exactly how right now. I think it was pretty simple though.
 
This guy says he want to put a turbo on a 2 stroke. That engine may produce globs of oil at random, some as thick as tar! The gnx turbine housing had a chamber that was to catch oil, and solid particles. That will be hard to find. My Subaru wrx had a catalytic converter before the turbo. This can not be used with leaded gas, but would act as a filter to catch some oil and particles. I have a metal screen used as a welding platform for Dental Lab use, but the wires on the screen are thick , and holes are course. It has a very high melting point. Check welding supply stores. Be careful, sounds like a risky thing to do.
 
Yea i dont really know about the whole 2 stroke deal. I dont think that any chunks of tar like oil would be exiting the exhaust though, at least not large enough to cause damage to a normal turbine. If your using 4 stroke motor oil in your 2 stroke then i can understand that(Ive seen it on an outboard...) but a 2 stroke should never have large globules of oil exiting the exhaust. The GNX's ceramic turbine was extremely fragile by comparison which is the main reason for the catch chamber being incorporated into the turbine housing.

On the catalytic converter, it would be a acceptable filter, for a short while. On the two stroke the oily exhaust would surely clog it up in no time. Cats dont respond to well to large amounts of oil.
When my compressor seal in the turbocharger went bad the car burned large quantities of oil, at a rate of a quart every 50 miles or so. I drove it like this for a little while till i recieved the new turbo, and when i removed the turbo the headers and turbine housing had a very thick carbon coating that would chip off in large hard flakes, like slate. Some of these chips had already been chipped off and had obviously exited the exhast through the turbine. :eek: The turbine also had some caked up carbon build up on it as well, but upon inspection and cleaning it was in perfect shape with no damage whatsoever.
If large hard chips of carbon did nothing to the stock turbine, i dont think that suspended oil droplets or small chunks of tarry oil will really pose much threat to the turbine in the 2 stroke application unless of course its a ceramic turbine, or something equally as fragile.

If you still want screens, it sounds like the ones turbo2nr mentioned would work.

Later
 
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