can i drive?

no piping, just filter on turbo inlet, outlet to nothing

and filter on throttle body

oil send/return hooked up

drivable? or?

 

you can drive it......
it wont hurt anything

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tHE oNE &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you can drive it......
it wont hurt anything</TD></TR></TABLE>

wrong. You can EASILY overspin the turbo.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VaporTrail &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

wrong. You can EASILY overspin the turbo.</TD></TR></TABLE>

True dat. Dont listen to uneducated people like the one above.

You can burn up the bearings in the turbo by overspinning it.

 

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True dat. Dont listen to uneducated people like the one above.

You can burn up the bearings in the turbo by overspinning it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

dont get on it?

i dont understand that....... sorry

 

w/ out piping the turbo will just spool up to infinity. Nothing to stop it. If you drive w/ out piping for any extended period of time you can put money on it that you will damage your turbo.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DIRep &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">w/ out piping the turbo will just spool up to infinity. Nothing to stop it. If you drive w/ out piping for any extended period of time you can put money on it that you will damage your turbo.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Make sense.
i been in numerous situations where I drove my car numerous times with no piping, on diff setups.
**** was fine, but then agian i wasn't out racing people with it.
there is no way the turbo is going to spool itself if your not giving it throttle to spool it.

 

Yeah, listen to these guys. I was in the same situation as you. If it's not in a closed loop, you will overspin your turbo greatly.

There's a fix to this problem however. If you have a tial wastegate, take the fire ring and flip it backwards. With the smaller diameter facing the manifold/elbow. This will keep your wastegate open and have alot of the exhaust gases going out the dumptube. There shouldn't be enough gas to get the turbo to spin into boost. I only did this to drive from the exhaust shop back home (5 miles) It was damn noisy but it got the job done. I wouldn't suggest doing this, but if it's your only option - it's a good way to keep your turbo safe. Just be sure it doesn't spool.


Modified by pub at 1:47 PM 5/25/2003

 

Another solution isto make yourself a really really ghetto-*** exhaust dump. We had the same problem on my buds civic when we were taking it for the turbo back exhaust and intake piping, so we unbolted the turbo from the manifold, duct taped it to the head (so we wouldn't be leaking oil from the feed and return lines) and welded a flange onto some 2.25" piping with a stock muffler from a mustang To show you what I mean, here is my all-star drawing. Notice the elite front mount effect

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by r7 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">can i drive?

no piping, just filter on turbo inlet, outlet to nothing

and filter on throttle body

oil send/return hooked up

drivable? or?</TD></TR></TABLE>


Like mentioned above you acn drve it, just don't get on it... I had to drive my car with no piping to a shop to get it made... I had a half cut downpipe and no charge pipes whatsoever... Just take it slow and you should be fine... ...

 

your turbo probaly doesn't start spooling until 3 or so anyways. and thats with throttle!
dont get on it and you will be fine

 

thanks for the replys.

 

How about if the piping is connected to the intercooler
than not connectted to the throtle body??

same thing??