Originally Posted by
Neil@FastFord
Was temps the cause of the failure?
I'd be looking at coolers, coolants, rads, airflow.
That turbo shouldn't be giving you too much grief. And for me i'd be on a Stage 3 T3 or 4x4 Cossie T3 as a sensible cost effective step up if you need to.
Big mystery really mate never really found out with 100% certainty, but running a .36 housing to it's limit creates loads of heat how ever you look at it, which is always bad!
My coolant never gets over about 95deg even when being thrashed, and my ACT's around 35deg (ambient temp of 25deg) so the whole engine runs nice and cool.
But without meassuring EGT's you never really know what your cylinder temps are like, would just be nice to know things are as safe as they can be.