EGTs, Internal Wastegate, Small Turbine Housing
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EGTs, Internal Wastegate, Small Turbine Housing
A while back I had a turbine wheel grenade on me and after some reading I've come to the conclusion that it was most likely sustained boosting that brought about the damage. Specifically from exhaust temps. I've got an EGT gauge, though it only goes to 1600f, the needle will go higher. The gauge always peaked around 1550-1600 and that was on my final tune, around 19* near peak hp @ 15psi.
Just wondering what the thoughts are on my current parts causing the current temps. I'm running a tubular stainless manifold. Turbo is (was) a t3/t4. Compressor 50AR 50trim and the turbine a 48AR Stage 3. The turbine housing is an OE Mercedes stage 1 that was overbored to fit the stage 3 wheel. I'm using the OE Mercedes internal wastegate housing that is about the largest OE IWG housing to come on a car (diesel engine). It's got a 2-1/2" outlet and has a pretty big "mouth" BUT it still sends the bypassed gases from the gate into the wastegate housing and right back at the turbine wheel. 15psi is reached ~4k so the wg is bleeding boost from that point up to 7k. Though it's not tracked I did regularly give it successive boosted runs. Usually full throttle from low rpm to redline in fourth AND running through the gears to redline. Again, EGTs were stabilizing right around 1550-1600f. Thoughts?
Since I'll be bringing over the setup to a new chassis, it won't be a big deal to run an EWG. I've got a 63AR turbine housing and can pick up a t3 flanged v-band adapter for that housing.
Just wondering what the thoughts are on my current parts causing the current temps. I'm running a tubular stainless manifold. Turbo is (was) a t3/t4. Compressor 50AR 50trim and the turbine a 48AR Stage 3. The turbine housing is an OE Mercedes stage 1 that was overbored to fit the stage 3 wheel. I'm using the OE Mercedes internal wastegate housing that is about the largest OE IWG housing to come on a car (diesel engine). It's got a 2-1/2" outlet and has a pretty big "mouth" BUT it still sends the bypassed gases from the gate into the wastegate housing and right back at the turbine wheel. 15psi is reached ~4k so the wg is bleeding boost from that point up to 7k. Though it's not tracked I did regularly give it successive boosted runs. Usually full throttle from low rpm to redline in fourth AND running through the gears to redline. Again, EGTs were stabilizing right around 1550-1600f. Thoughts?
Since I'll be bringing over the setup to a new chassis, it won't be a big deal to run an EWG. I've got a 63AR turbine housing and can pick up a t3 flanged v-band adapter for that housing.
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A while back I had a turbine wheel grenade on me and after some reading I've come to the conclusion that it was most likely sustained boosting that brought about the damage. Specifically from exhaust temps. I've got an EGT gauge, though it only goes to 1600f, the needle will go higher. The gauge always peaked around 1550-1600 and that was on my final tune, around 19* near peak hp @ 15psi.
Just wondering what the thoughts are on my current parts causing the current temps. I'm running a tubular stainless manifold. Turbo is (was) a t3/t4. Compressor 50AR 50trim and the turbine a 48AR Stage 3. The turbine housing is an OE Mercedes stage 1 that was overbored to fit the stage 3 wheel. I'm using the OE Mercedes internal wastegate housing that is about the largest OE IWG housing to come on a car (diesel engine). It's got a 2-1/2" outlet and has a pretty big "mouth" BUT it still sends the bypassed gases from the gate into the wastegate housing and right back at the turbine wheel. 15psi is reached ~4k so the wg is bleeding boost from that point up to 7k. Though it's not tracked I did regularly give it successive boosted runs. Usually full throttle from low rpm to redline in fourth AND running through the gears to redline. Again, EGTs were stabilizing right around 1550-1600f. Thoughts?
Since I'll be bringing over the setup to a new chassis, it won't be a big deal to run an EWG. I've got a 63AR turbine housing and can pick up a t3 flanged v-band adapter for that housing.
Just wondering what the thoughts are on my current parts causing the current temps. I'm running a tubular stainless manifold. Turbo is (was) a t3/t4. Compressor 50AR 50trim and the turbine a 48AR Stage 3. The turbine housing is an OE Mercedes stage 1 that was overbored to fit the stage 3 wheel. I'm using the OE Mercedes internal wastegate housing that is about the largest OE IWG housing to come on a car (diesel engine). It's got a 2-1/2" outlet and has a pretty big "mouth" BUT it still sends the bypassed gases from the gate into the wastegate housing and right back at the turbine wheel. 15psi is reached ~4k so the wg is bleeding boost from that point up to 7k. Though it's not tracked I did regularly give it successive boosted runs. Usually full throttle from low rpm to redline in fourth AND running through the gears to redline. Again, EGTs were stabilizing right around 1550-1600f. Thoughts?
Since I'll be bringing over the setup to a new chassis, it won't be a big deal to run an EWG. I've got a 63AR turbine housing and can pick up a t3 flanged v-band adapter for that housing.
Last edited by sn95; 02-16-2010 at 11:11 PM. Reason: corrected TIT specs
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Header/manifold collector- about 1" from the turbine flange. EGTs were essentially the same as rich as 10.5 as they were at the final tune. I've seen **** of 1600f cited as "OK" in several aeronautical contexts. The prior turbine wheel was believed to be a turbonetics, but that's not positive. And it had excessive tolerance to the housing wall - about 1/8". Not sure how any of that would impact temps either.
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1600F is pretty hot. A quick search on honda-tech (they've been there done that to most questions) says they aim for 1400F MAX at full load and wot, but I see alot of guys say they are hitting 1600 after 1-5th pulls.
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I'm sure the temps aren't a result of the tune. I've been all over the ign and fuel map specifically focused on this, all with negligible change. Given that, I suspect that the IWG is the culprit. It's a relic compared to the newer internal designs. It dumps directly into a wall that reflects exhaust gas right back at the turbine.
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Header/manifold collector- about 1" from the turbine flange. EGTs were essentially the same as rich as 10.5 as they were at the final tune. I've seen **** of 1600f cited as "OK" in several aeronautical contexts. The prior turbine wheel was believed to be a turbonetics, but that's not positive. And it had excessive tolerance to the housing wall - about 1/8". Not sure how any of that would impact temps either.
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Could have been worded better- I went from 15* to 19* up top and and saw a negligible change- maybe down from 1600f to 1550. More fuel did nothing but lose power. I'm not man enough to run more than that up top on a pump gas street tune at 15psi... not right now w/o a back up engine.
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Peak EGT = hottest
From peak EGT, you can add fuel to run Rich of Peak (ROP) or subtract fuel to
run Lean of Peak (LOP). Exhaust temps will fall in either case until you attain a mixture that is either so rich (ROP) or so lean (LOP) that it will not combust and the engine dies.
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Could have been worded better- I went from 15* to 19* up top and and saw a negligible change- maybe down from 1600f to 1550. More fuel did nothing but lose power. I'm not man enough to run more than that up top on a pump gas street tune at 15psi... not right now w/o a back up engine.
I'd suggest testing the car on a chassis dyno that can hold the engine at a constant load for as long as desired (e.g., not a Dynojet). Get the engine running at a safe load (60-75% power) and RPM that puts the engine in boost but does not cause the wastegate to start dumping. Monitor AFR and EGT at constant load until both stabilize (at least 1 minute) and then start slowly adding/subtracting fuel in small increments and waiting for the EGT gauge to stabilize after each change. You should be able to find peak EGT this way and also see what richening AFR does to EGT/TIT.
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Last time on the dynojet I was tuning the top end target boost IGN map and adjusting fuel accordingly for power with regard to knock and EGT. No knock and the usual EGTs during those runs. Final AFR was 11.5 in the newly tuned zones on 93. I was running leaner AFR but with less advance when I rolled in with a rough street tune. There was probably a 50* drop in EGTs by the end.
Agreed - loading dyno is the ideal way to tune (all of it for that matter). So are you saying I should reach peak EGTs at a lower rpm, and boost?
Agreed - loading dyno is the ideal way to tune (all of it for that matter). So are you saying I should reach peak EGTs at a lower rpm, and boost?
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Last time on the dynojet I was tuning the top end target boost IGN map and adjusting fuel accordingly for power with regard to knock and EGT. No knock and the usual EGTs during those runs. Final AFR was 11.5 in the newly tuned zones on 93. I was running leaner AFR but with less advance when I rolled in with a rough street tune. There was probably a 50* drop in EGTs by the end.
Agreed - loading dyno is the ideal way to tune (all of it for that matter). So are you saying I should reach peak EGTs at a lower rpm, and boost?
Agreed - loading dyno is the ideal way to tune (all of it for that matter). So are you saying I should reach peak EGTs at a lower rpm, and boost?
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Post turbine temp is now way to judge your inlet temp. The heat performs a large portion of the work that drive the turbine, and you will see a large temp drop across the turbine as well due to pressure drop.
Turbine inlet temp is critical to longevity, and it sounds like you were pushing it.
Turbine inlet temp is critical to longevity, and it sounds like you were pushing it.
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Most aluminum alloys start to get pretty wobbly around 1650F, so if you are there a lot your head might have a problem anyway.
Most diesel guys are very worried about EGT because they tend to run under load for much longer time frames than we do when towing, even compred to a road course car.The general rule of thumb there is that if you are sustained over 1300 degrees you are basicaly asking for it. You can have peaks that are higer than that, but not for too long.
WI drops EGTs really well. I would simply run a really basic system with pure water. That will often drop temps by about 200F. If you want to run more timing to take advantage of it, so much the better, but you dont have to. And then you can run a more sensible AFR, as the 10.5 is not doing you any favors or making you safer.
Richening the AFRs themselfs is a bad idea. You get cooler combustion temps but you might end up simply burning fuel in the manifold post-cylinder head and spiking temps that way. The increase in timing is simply burning the fuel more completely in the chamber and using it to make TQ, which avoids this to a degree, which is why it cooled things down.
Most diesel guys are very worried about EGT because they tend to run under load for much longer time frames than we do when towing, even compred to a road course car.The general rule of thumb there is that if you are sustained over 1300 degrees you are basicaly asking for it. You can have peaks that are higer than that, but not for too long.
WI drops EGTs really well. I would simply run a really basic system with pure water. That will often drop temps by about 200F. If you want to run more timing to take advantage of it, so much the better, but you dont have to. And then you can run a more sensible AFR, as the 10.5 is not doing you any favors or making you safer.
Richening the AFRs themselfs is a bad idea. You get cooler combustion temps but you might end up simply burning fuel in the manifold post-cylinder head and spiking temps that way. The increase in timing is simply burning the fuel more completely in the chamber and using it to make TQ, which avoids this to a degree, which is why it cooled things down.
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Post turbine temp is now way to judge your inlet temp. The heat performs a large portion of the work that drive the turbine, and you will see a large temp drop across the turbine as well due to pressure drop.
Turbine inlet temp is critical to longevity, and it sounds like you were pushing it.
Turbine inlet temp is critical to longevity, and it sounds like you were pushing it.
This. Often you will see a 250 degree diff in pre and post turbine temp with a restrictive housing, sometimes even more. If you have 1600 post-turbine, then I gurantee you that you are in heat-death land by quite a bit.