What holds the weight of the turbo?
12-12-2013, 01:22 PM
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What holds the weight of the turbo? I am curious what holds the weight of the turbo?
Does the hot side tubing by itself hold it up and is this sufficient?
Or, Do I need to build a bracket to hold the turbo stationary?
Does this stationary turbo have any effect on the flex and movement of the engine and hot side tubing? Do I need a flex pipe between the engine and the turbo?
I am running an LQ4 with poly mounts and adapter plates in a 1972 Nova.
The turbo is a GT45.
Does the hot side tubing by itself hold it up and is this sufficient?
Or, Do I need to build a bracket to hold the turbo stationary?
Does this stationary turbo have any effect on the flex and movement of the engine and hot side tubing? Do I need a flex pipe between the engine and the turbo?
I am running an LQ4 with poly mounts and adapter plates in a 1972 Nova.
The turbo is a GT45.
12-12-2013, 01:42 PM
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You need a mount. The turbo is heavy and will crack the hotside. I have mine built into our bumper support and to not use any kind of flex coupling. I am also running motor plates and it is a race only application. With poly mounts I would look at a flex pipe somewhere.
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Depends on the gauge of pipe you use and how much leveraged force their is on it. Ie the longer the pipe the more force in it to crack it. A lot depends on if it will crack. If you try to mount it to anything other than the engine without using a flex coupler it will crack.
