cid vs number of cyldiners

[JackD]

"When you limit discussion, it is tuff to appreciate how right you might be until you can compare it to how wrong others can be.
To the never ending surprise of many, sometimes others can even be right." (me)

[RichFox]

Vega. GMC. Two Corvair Turbos and a 780 cfm Holley. Went 177 one way but ate a turbo doing it.

[Sumner]

Vega. GMC. Two Corvair Turbos and a 780 cfm Holley. Went 177 one way but ate a turbo doing it.

Pretty impressive number for that technology!!  Next time don't skip breakfast and you won't have to be eating turbo's  .

Actually I want to put a turbo/turbos on my truck and am just a little worried about one thing.  Which side is more likely to go, the compressor side or the turbine side??  I guess if it is the turbine side parts just go down the exhaust, but the other side might not be so pretty.

c ya,

Sum

[JackD]

Lack of proper lubrication is the turbo killer that is far more common than FOD.

[RichFox]

I blew every Corvair turbo I that could find in local junkyards. It seemed to me that the turbine would go first, then the bearing, then the compressor. In short order. Small pieces of aluminum in the intake tract did in a few pistons. One turbine wheel found it's way out the exhaust pipe and did the job on Warner's hand when he picked it up. I believe we were overspeeding the Corvair units. FOD was not an issue

[Sumner]

I blew every Corvair turbo I that could find in local junkyards. It seemed to me that the turbine would go first, then the bearing, then the compressor. In short order. Small pieces of aluminum in the intake tract did in a few pistons. One turbine wheel found it's way out the exhaust pipe and did the job on Warner's hand when he picked it up. I believe we were overspeeding the Corvair units. FOD was not an issue

Thanks for that info,

Sum