anyone here with a turbo'd engine with mild boost (less than 10 i guess) and decent cooling ever take it on a long trip. like maybe 3 hrs highway? if so, did u drive straight or take breaks to let it cool down?

my car is gonna be turbo soon, but once summer ends i hafta go back to school upstate and its like a 3 hr trip (i could prob make it in 2.5 tho). my route has plenty of stops along the way so i could get to a gas station or parking lotta wenever necessary. i'll prob leave for college, and then come back a week or two later to pick up my car. i really dont wanna spend all that time without my ride to at least work on, but i wanna kno if it can make the trip. whaddya think?

 

I'm about to turbo my car and then in a month or so drive from Oregon to Florida. I'll let ya know how it goes. I don't anticipate any problems at all. I might get a lower temp thermometer, oil cooler and other shiite, but it should all be good. I've never heard of people having overheating problems merely because of the turbo?! I should be boosting 5-7psi, intercooled on a stock d16z6 by the way.

 

You shouldn't be boosting while cruising so there should be no heat problems.

-Dustin

 

ya, unless your at full throttle spooling up the turbo boosting the engine - u should have no over heating problems, ur car drives in vacuum 90% of the time with a turbo, because ur not driving full throttle everywhere u go....much less on the highway for 3 hrs straight.... just watch ur gauges and do some routine maintenance before the road trip and u'll be fine....

 

oh, so after cruising awhile, even like around 2500-3000 rpm, if im not full throttle, it wont be boosting anymore? ok, thats a relief. thanks guys

 

I just drove 21 hours straight with no problems, twice.

 

big trucks go across the US all the time, they only overheat sometimes