Tubro timer?

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I just Put a turbo timer custom into his Talon.Looks pretty sick does that thing beniefit a supercharger?and is there even a wire diagram for install?Theres just no threads on that thing.Does anyone do it?

 

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His Talon? Who's his? His who? Where'd that come from?

Am I mistaken, or isn't a turbo timer just an automatic deal to keep your engine fan running for a certain amount of time after it's shut off? Or are you talking about a digital control interface of some kind to adjust the level of boost and timing advance/retard on a turbo'ed setup?

 

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Ya my buddys run some rice dsm bull*****...no it was an apexi? (How ever u spell it) and it reads air fuel from the 02sensor battery and ya it like kept the car runnig for aslong as you beat on the car. Hard to expliain.

 

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it measures exhaust temperature and doesnt let the car shut off until it cools. it allows the the turbo to cool down after the car has been ran hard so you dont sut it off with boiling oil in the turbo. because that oil will cool to fast and become sludge and that will cause turbo failure.

 

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Its not really that hard to explain..

It will only benefit superchargers that are oil cooled, It will also only benefit turbo's that are oil cooled.

The shafts on most turbo chargers spin really really really fast (up to 50,000 RPM's).. Therefore, it cause alot of heat. To keep the heat level down, they are cooled by either oil or coolant. The shaft has no "brake" or anyway of stopping at will, it just slows down until it completely stops. Therefore, when you drive hard and its spinning fast, and you just shut your car off, it still spins but no oil or coolant is circulating around it. If that happens, the oil around the shaft just sits there and can cause it to "cok". "Coking" means the oil will basically bake and turn into a hard substance.. *I know, BAD!*

So back to what the turbo timer does.. It keeps your car running when you turn the key off, enough time to let the turbo cool down. Usually about 1 minute per hour of driving.

 

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I thought it keep the car running to for a few minutes, to keep oil running through it. (turbo)

Here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_timer

 

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On that timer I hooked up it aid for n/a or turbo applications what good would it do on a n/a car??

 

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Ah. Well, it wasn't the fan, but I was kinda close, anyway...

 

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Turbo timers are a very neat invention. In the old days when I was running turbocharged stuff, if you had recently been in boost, you would let the car idle for several minutes before shutting it down. As was mentioned, this allowed the impellar shaft to be spinning as slowly as possible before you stopped its cooling and lube (my stuff was only oil cooled).

Even with doing this, the car ate dynamic turbo seals like crazy, as well as experiencing coked up return lines (The Triple K was low and the return line was almost horizontal - not good).

These days, even crappy remote start alarms have turbo-timer ability.

 

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Ah. So, you mean a turbo timer ISN'T that laptop software that keeps you from running boost for so long that your floorboards fall off during a race?

 

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so what good an a N/A car?

 

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Darkwriter77 said:

Ah. So, you mean a turbo timer ISN'T that laptop software that keeps you from running boost for so long that your floorboards fall off during a race?

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Haha, no.. only super duper quick race rockets can do that!

 

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whtnotch said:

so what good an a N/A car?

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Comon dude, I wrote over a paragraph up there! Lol, but no, they do nothing for N/A cars, just a fancy gadget to show off to girls with.

 

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whtnotch said:

so what good an a N/A car?

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Nothing. It would be like an automatic car-starter that only works after the car is started.



Seriously. If you want your car to run after you are done driving it, buy a $50 automatic car starter. park your car, hit the starter and walk away and 10 mins later it will shut off and you can laugh at your buddy for buying an expensive turbo timer

 

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I think you're thinking of a boost controller. Some companies make electronic ones that modify the signal to the wastegate. Superchargers have no such product.