water or non-water cooled bearing housings

am getting a new turbo this week the turbo i got now is just oil cooled should i get one with just oil again or get water cooled is water cooled better if so how is it better and is it worth changing things around to make it water cooled

its a garrett turbo

 

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someone

 

it's just an option, but I say go for it...for higher boosting, it will help a lot. My old turbo was watercooled, but we didn't use it, we just used the oil cooling


[Modified by Slow_ass_4dr, 7:40 PM 12/29/2001]

 

...can't be a bad option since it's standard on almost if not all OE boosted cars... and who's going to built an aftermarket boosted car and then put around in it...

 

I did it.

It's so easy. As long as you have the chance.. DO IT

Makes me sleep better at night

 

the main diff is when you turn the car off the water cooled housing continues to cool the turbo, whereas the oil cooled does not. if you have a turbo timer this is less of an issue, but all things being equal the water cooled unit will last longer.

 

water/oil colled CHRA's were designed for industrial apps, for busses and crap like that, that spool 30 psi off the line all day every day. never buy one of these used because they come off of tractors and ****. Hondas get a lot of cooling just from the turbo being mounted up front, no body else has the exhaust side forward. I do not know of too many people who run their turbo to 30PSI off every light, most of you guys run your trubos well out of the compressor island anyways like 7 PSI on a t3/4 which is nowhere near its thermal/flow potential.