Warming up and cooling down.

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Jan 2, 2003 | 11:38 AM

HomerJay

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Warming up and cooling down.

Yes. I believe in warming up and cooling down. Since you have a turbo, I would let it cool after driving, especially if the turbo was engaged. As soon as you cut power to your engine, it will drain the oil from the turbo back into the pan. This can cause it to overheat and also not last as long. Get either a turbo timer or let your engine idle for about 1 min. before shutting off. I don't think the Sube comes w/ a Turbo timer from the factory.

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Jan 2, 2003 | 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by HomerJay
Yes. I believe in warming up and cooling down. Since you have a turbo, I would let it cool after driving, especially if the turbo was engaged. As soon as you cut power to your engine, it will drain the oil from the turbo back into the pan. This can cause it to overheat and also not last as long. Get either a turbo timer or let your engine idle for about 1 min. before shutting off.

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Jan 2, 2003 | 03:13 PM

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the reason you want to let your car cool after running (esp. if you ran it hard) is because you can develope what is known as Heat Soak. Basically what happens is your turbo heats up and if you turn your car off right away the oil that is used to cool your turbo beads up and forms really hard little ***** of oil. Eventually when these fall off they are so hard that they can cause your bearings, head gaskets, and other various parts of your car some damage. If you want to read up on it a little more just run a search on Heat Soak and i'm sure you can get more info out of it than i can give you.

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