ISL33P wrote: Maybe your $1500 turbo will benefit from a little more thought from its installer, which is absolutely FREE.
ISL33P wrote:not needed at all. it can simply be blocked off where it is tee'd from
I thought it was simple? as your selling these manifold maybe you should advise you existing and potential customers where they should be plumbing there turbos into rather than having telling them that the feed is not needed at all and that it can be simply blocked off.there is TWO feeds from the water pump, your advising to 'simply block one' ...that only leaves one other which has a thermostat on the end of it........there is no other options to feed the turbo with warming water from the engine so what do you suggest? Is simply block it off really the answer you should be giving??................. the answer is NO!
ISL33P wrote:Are you considering to buy one of these manifolds?
Yes, however after I got a quote from you in excess of $2000 (which required me to have the drawing done aswell) I looked elsewhere and decided to go for another company who made my manifold for about a quarter of your price, my manifold leaves the stock (well designed) cooling system intact aswell so no issues resulting in cold passengers and/or premature wear/failier to the turbo.
Maybe you should consider the consequences of blocking pipes off which you do not fully understand their function,however for your benefit I will explain...
The top outlet your suggesting to block supplies warming water to the turbo from the second you start the engine, meaning you warm up the journals of the turbo nice and quick, this also feeds the heater matrix and then returns to the back of the block so the whole block warms up nice and evenly.
this same outlet actually tees to the large radiator return pipe. however whilst the thermostat is closed, the water inside the radiator cannot move, this means the only moving water is the warming water from the engine and the only route to flow is throught the matrix & turbo warming them up on the way, however soon as the engines upto temperature the water inside the radiator then flows through the Tee into the same pipework and then to the tubo to cool it down.
So to put simply, when engines cold it warms the turbo up and when the engines and turbo have warmed up there supplied with the cooled water from radiator..... as I said before....A very well designed cooling system!!!