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Although this is a Saab engine, I think it demonstrates how warm turbos and exhausts can get...and why it is necessary to let a turbo spool down after spirited use...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukl5b4o6wH4

Next time WRC is on Dave, check out te Ford focus exhaust pipes, there glowing all the way to the tail pipe!:shock:

They get so hot, you can see the moving parts inside. This was always a good one to Escort RS turbo's. They go red and white hot... LOL

Exhaust can get really hot..... just put your hand on the tail pipes after a long run !!!!!!!!! So imagine the down pipes....

I am running no cats and the exhaust was so hot the filling inside the silencers were destroyed !!! I did end up with empty silencers and obviously bleeding hear drums
Had to have some special silencers (high heat resistant) from Milltek.

abbots racing did the work on an old 900t16s i had, i used to cane the pants off it and rush to open the bonnet to check the red downpipe and turbo, efin great

kies4 wrote:abbots racing did the work on an old 900t16s i had, i used to cane the pants off it and rush to open the bonnet to check the red downpipe and turbo, efin great

Have done that on a tuned Renault 5 GT turbo as well, can't recall the tuner, it was a long time ago, but a bit of fun nevertheless. They used to get 200+ bhp out of a pushrod 1,400cc engine. Reliability, what reliability?

bigandyw wrote:Next time WRC is on Dave, check out te Ford focus exhaust pipes, there glowing all the way to the tail pipe!:shock:

Yeah, but that is caused by the fancy anti-lag systems the WRC cars run.

yeah try hand put your hand on a turbo after its been running for two mintues,then try to write a reply to this post with no skin !!!

imolas4uk wrote:yeah try hand put your hand on a turbo after its been running for two mintues,then try to write a reply to this post with no skin !!!

Eh ?