Watercooling Tial Wastegate

[DV8]

Would oike to add watercooling to my tial wategate (mainly to maintain the annodised finish )

Can anyone recomend the best places to take a cold feed and return hot?

Was considering just tapping into the hot and cold hoses direct from the rad but not sure if thats best practice.

 

[nicole_]

Is there much benefit to this? It seemed like a lot of hassle that wasn't really worth it - more plumbing = more things to go wrong?

My turbo's water cooled( dunno if that helps) and I take it from the hose housing out the head with a weld on fitting and a return back to a fitting in the front of the block.

 

[DV8]

Is there much benefit to this? It seemed like a lot of hassle that wasn't really worth it - more plumbing = more things to go wrong?

My turbo's water cooled( dunno if that helps) and I take it from the hose housing out the head with a weld on fitting and a return back to a fitting in the front of the block.

Tial say it prolongs the life of the WG. Mine is anodised black and the heat makes the anodise change colour (and look ugly).

Any chance i could see a pic of your turbo cooling setup?

 

[jesse888]

Is there much benefit to this? It seemed like a lot of hassle that wasn't really worth it - more plumbing = more things to go wrong?

My turbo's water cooled( dunno if that helps) and I take it from the hose housing out the head with a weld on fitting and a return back to a fitting in the front of the block.

water cooled turbos main benefit is after shut down, the thermal siphon(assuming it's plumbed up correctly) cools the CHRA down with constant flow of coolant until the heat dies. Obviously an oil cooled turbo can't do this after the engines been shut down. I just run mine on idle for alittle while to pull some heat out of it before turning the engine off.
Last time I had a look in the housing it was spotless so make of that what you want.

My buddy has his water cooling plumbed in on his TIAl WG but I don't.
Probably wise thing to do on a track car tbf

 

[nicole_]

Jesse I know why the turbos water cooled! I meant benefit for the wastegate I still idle mine before I switch it off too

I'll get some photos it wasn't simple/cheap though so I don't think it outweighs the benefit. I don't think anything anodised really stays too shiny for very long

 

[jesse888]

Jesse I know why the turbos water cooled! I meant benefit for the wastegate I still idle mine before I switch it off too

I'll get some photos it wasn't simple/cheap though so I don't think it outweighs the benefit. I don't think anything anodised really stays too shiny for very long

Haha sorry!
I can imagine the wastegate would get fairly hot with constant boost.
Although I'd imagine it's more important with endurance racing more than the daily driver/trackday driver.
Like I said mines been fine so far and so has yours.

Probably worth doing if you can be fussed with it.

 

[Bcivic18c]

Is there a right and wrong way for turbo coolant? Ive ran mine exactly how garrett recommened which is turbo tilted 20 degrees, cold feed low side (mines fed from the bottom of the rad where its already been cooled) and hot feed high side, running back to the top coolant hose to be fed back through the rad and cooled

 

[DV8]

I'll get some photos it wasn't simple/cheap though so I don't think it outweighs the benefit. I don't think anything anodised really stays too shiny for very long

Awesome, really interested to see how youve done it. When i spoke to Tial about the anodise deteriorating they said it should be cooled too maintain. Ill try it and well see if it works. Lol