is this good or bad worth it or not http://cgi.ebay.ca/Cummins-6BT-5-9-M...455QQrdZ1QQcmd

 

Not at that price. It looks to be an HX-35 with a water cooled turbine housing, so it's pretty much only good as a core.

 

Didn't know that they made those...

You couldn't plumb it into your radiator lines somehow?

 

Not what you want to do. That would cause bad turbo lag and overload the cooling system. The engine that turbo came off is a 5.9 liter that makes 330 HP @ 3,000 RPM and can do it for hours on end. Turbo lag is not something they worry about in that application, having the turbine housing crack due to long-term overheating is. They have a cooling system of unlimited capacity at their disposal as well.

 

I understand the rest of what you said, but why would this turbo be any more laggy than a non-watercooled turbo? Or is it that the HX-35's are laggy in general?

 

Turbos run on heat energy. Cooling the turbine housing dumps a bunch of that energy into the cooling system instead of converting it to rotary motion and making boost.

 

Ahhh. Now I got it.

Thank you.

 

ok bad thanks