Water Colled Turbo - Finned pipe

Hi All

I am after the finned heatsink style pipe that passes through the airduct in the engine bay and carried coolant to the turbo (on later water cooled turbo cars)

I wondered if anyone has one lying around that they are wondering what to do with?

Cheers

Nick

After Nick has had one and a second appears I need one too I think.

Trevor.

[BIG_MVS]

Unavailable new AFAIK. 2nd hand ones rot so they are like hens teeth.

I have run my last 2 GTA's with just a pipe running through with no problems at all.

Lee will probably confirm that I have OCD moments so I may look at getting one made up. There are various finned pipes available for heating/cooling applications, or I may get someone I know to fabricate one.

Having said that I have little patience so may go for a quick and easy solution,

BigMVS, do you use a metal pipe straight through? If so what material is it?

[BIG_MVS]

Can't remember what the pipe was made of but I reckon it was probably a copper heating pipe of some sorts.

Totally agree that it's there for a reason and OE would be the way to go but I think if the car is used as a weekend/occasional use hobby car then you will be fine. Use it everyday in and out of standing traffic resulting in lot's of engine bay heat then your turbo may suffer from the lack of additional cooling.

I am after the finned heatsink style pipe that passes through the airduct in the engine bay and carried coolant to the turbo (on later water cooled turbo cars)

I dont recall the pipe being 'finned'

Mines a late 1991 water cooled turbo, perhaps they changed the style

It's got a ' helix' fin heat sink type thing .To get it out of the blower housing you have to unscrew it .
No great need to run it imo .

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CLee is right, if you are using good fully synthetic oil (ester based), you don't have a problem - and the water circuit is not necessary. There are some reasons it can be of benefit to keep it (other than just feeding your engine on cheap cooking oil...), but not really an issue on a daily driver.

It's a stainless steel pipe, and the convolute form is purely to allow it to flex for installation and fatigue resistance in vibration, not for heat dissipation... if it were it would be picking up more heat, as it's right by the header riser tube...