Water lines from T2 cancelled, dangerous?

[alundra]

I'd like to run without watercooled, can i drive my car? (I have a turbo timer, for no cocking the oil)

If someone have some link for braided ones which can be shipped to France, it'll be apprecious.

[old-and-rusty]

There have been a couple of previous threads about this.

I seem to remember Pukkasilvia saying that you don`t really need the water cooling, as when the water is hot, it`s not really doing much to cool the turbo anyway .

I guess as long as your oil is changed regularly and there are no blockages in the oil supply pipe you should be okay. I know that a few production cars don`t have water cooling for the turbo.

Hope this helps .

Regards,
Ian.

[alundra]

Thanks mate

[30psi]

Its not essential, but is deemed essential on a ball bearing turbo, which the S12 wouldn't have had

[s13eater]

theres no waterways at all on my turbonetics t76 bb tubby. i'am sat hear polishing it, i must be sad.

[30psi]

Polish your knob like us younguns do instead

Garrett harp on about cooling their turbo's. I can't see how much effect cooling a turbo with 90 deg water does but if Garrett recommend it for their turbo's then thats probably what you got to do.

Do you spin your turbo up? I think its great how they can even spin up by blowing in to them