i just went for like a 15min drive not even, hit full boost once then barely boosted at all only up hills a lil come home pop the hood and my turbo/wastegate is glimmering red hot in the middle of the day this normal???

 

i drove my t2 from ny to fl and mine never even got red. thats driving an hour to 2 hours at a time. What mods do u have, and what boost are u running at? clogged cat?

 

lol....welcome to the glowing turbo association....... lol...... mine does the same exact thing........ i dont mean it glows a little, mine was bright whiteish-yellow... and see through!! it does it everytime i drive it................. but it doesnt seem to hurt anything, she runs fine everytime i drive her!!! just make sure you let it cool off before shutting down the car....... at least 3-5 minutes....... otherwise you will have problems

 

yup thats a tubo

 

 

Holy Crap! I never knew turbos got that hot. Well the one i my Volvo never got that hot.

 

HOLY ****! thats not right man, not right at all!

-Check your timing
-Check your cats
-If possible port your wastegate and get yourself a better flowing exhaust. Even if you don't have the money, you should defenitly get rid of your cat if its clogged. If its glowing that hot, coolant, and oil will instantly turn to steam/smoke and coke up the whole goddamn thing. Thats crazy! wow. saved that picture.

 

Turbos get hot. Rotories have much hotter egts than piston engines. Under prolonged flogging it will glow.

I just never saw mine glow in the day time....

 

yea but you can't tell me that a stock seven brand new out of the factory would still have a glowing turbo! i just can't fathom how that turbo would last under that kind of heat...

 

Man , mine glowed when it was still stock

Gotta remember how hot the EGTS are......1800F?

Over prolonged periods of time with not allot of airflow.

 

I used to get my n/a manifold to glow in the dark on a regular basis, any spirited nightly drive you could pull over and see the thing glowing pretty bright... but like i said--thats at night

 

eh, maybe its normal then? thx for the input.

 

Wanna see something else that is weird at night?

It has to be pitch black to see this.....

If you are bare block you can easily see this....

Look at were your spark plugs disapears into the rotor housings....you should see a nice blue glow around the plugs...
seen this on like 4 different 7s

James

 

is this your stock turbo glowing?

 

mine also glow red for drive about a mile, and was about less then 5 mins. The solution i found to fix this was timing, like what blackplague said. After fixing the timing it never glow red even after driving it for about 1hr

 

thats just crazy. just insane. fix it. **** imagine if it was raining and water got on the snail.. tere she goes!!

 

that's what i thought when i saw this thread....the cats might be clogged......i've never seen my turbo get that hot but then again i have straight pipes

 

Are you running a FMIC?
How much boost are you running?
What was the temp that day?

Yes turbo's get hot, and yes they are mad to be able to survuve though extreme heat... but if they're running the way they should they should only get to be red glowing hot under heavy load for an extended period of time.

If your turbo is glowing red hot easily, then there's something wrong... can you imagine the heat your block is soaking up from your turbo being that hot..

 

It's fairly normal for the turbo to glow deep red after some hard driving, but regular driving shouldn't do it.

Something tells me you are running right. Is your AFM in the stock position? Car in good tune?

 

All these questions about my turbo? lol

Timing was off, running way rich, and this was after just a short drive to the gas station. I let the car idle for 15 minutes before shutting her off.

 

Running rich wouldn't cause it to run hotter. Leaner = hotter, richer = cooler.

 

Eh probably lean. This 102 degree fever is making my head spin just a bit.

Oh and this turbo had a ported wastegate and a free flowing exhaust to the stock cat back. (no cats, 2.5 DP).

 

my turbo never glowed, even after full boost drives, i mean very hard driving at high rpms and full boost every chance i could, no glow. doesn't sound to normal to me.

 

so are u running lean? don't blow a seal dood.