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Post subject: turbo heat problems with ef el

Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:09 pm

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hi i just wondering wat ppl are doin to protect enigine bay from turbo heat , such as the brake booster acc cable , cruiz cable , over flow tank.

what sort of heat sheilds you using pic would be good.

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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:29 pm

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acl make a heatshielding metal sheet you can purchase which is the same as the standard au(3?) exhaust heat sheild material.... you could use this or just modify a standard one...

a combination of heat shields and wraps should work, but apparrantly wraps can cause fractures in pipework etc....

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Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:14 pm

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ok thanks for that , thats good info on the heat wrap thanks

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:51 pm

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yeh i just used heat rap and acl heat shield. u will just need to cover the whole dump in heat rap, heat shield over turbine housing and heat shield around the brake booster and cylinder.

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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:50 pm

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I know this will look like over kill but:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a397/ ... oon040.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a397/ ... 572677.jpg

Works OK, (Its the ACL stuff)

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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:17 pm

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cool as guys thanks for ideas, im still a little way off doin it but i got everything apart from computer so i am just waitin on these cappa controllers for efs to come out and see if they have enough functions to run a turbo and bigger injectors etc.

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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:18 pm

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yeh i was gonna wait for 1 of those fulltuners for eb-el, but i think u will have probalms running high boost. and yes it will run bigg injectors

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