[Supras] 57 trim turbo with clipped turbine wheel

Jeff Mohler speedtoys.racing at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 11:06:26 CDT 2007


*nods*

its certainly something I'll be doing next time im there.



On 8/23/07, Dan Gyoba <dgyoba at abstractconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> On 22 Aug 2007 at 17:50, berniek at technicaldevelop.com wrote:
>
> > Pat:
> >
> >     There is plenty of meat around the disc wastegate valve.  Boring
> >     the
> > turbine body 1/8 inch increases the area considerably since area
> > varies as the square of the diameter, but adds only 1/16" to the
> > radius of the hole.  There remains about 1/8" of an annulus for
> > wastegate valve turbine body to valve overlap.
> >
> >        BernieK
>
> Well, that's the square of the radius, not the diameter, which is
> different, but it's still a
> logarithmic function, which is, I think your point.
>
> Persoanlly, I think that getting rid of that huge blockage after the
> wastegate in the turbo elbow is
> probably more beneficial, and probablhy adequate.  Boring the wastegate
> opening certainly isn't
> useless though, and is a good idea.
>
> Dan Gyoba
> '89 NA 451,732 kms, Turbo swap COMPLETE
> http://www.abstractconsulting.com/~dan
>
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