How to fit turbotimer to GU04 Patrol?

Same in Victoria

They dont fit them for the same reason Ford didnt fit the strengthening brackets in the rear of the PINTO

MONEY
MONEY
MONEY

Fortunately Ford payed out the millions in court cases as a result of rear end collisions
Shame Nissan dont do the same when their Grenades go off

Incidentally it would have cost Ford about $1 per car to fit them
A lot less than the millions they got sued for.

I had one in mine and have also got one in the cruiser.
Especially as the exhaust and turbo temp can get well over 500deg at times. Beats boiling the oil.

Hi Graham

Today I watched a show on Austar on the making of BMW. Really interesting stuff. The aluminium engine is surrounded with magnesium casting to keep the weight down. The point that made me look up and listen is the aluminium is kept in a molten state at around 500C.

Malcolm

And your point is???????????

Was it a diesel or a petrol motor

Was it turbo or not.

There is a vast differences in temperatures between the different motors.

It seems to be generally accepted that a EGT sender mounted after the turbo will give temp readings some 200deg lower than one mounted pre turbo.(Mine is after)
After all it is the gas temp that is measured not the engine metal temp.
I have a digital temp gauge with the sender bolted to the head.
It generally reads in the high 70's or up to 83 when working hard.
When it gets up to that the EGT is up around the 400 mark.

cheers

I wasn't comparing motors at all.

My EGT is after turbo (diesel) and gets up to, and sometimes over, 500C. I was comparing that to the molten aluminium at 500C.

Thanks for your info on sender unit bolted to head - reassuring to know that my engine will not go into 'meltdown' mode.

Malcolm

Get one of the temp gauges here if u ask nicely he may do one for you.

www.enginesaver.com.au

What about the ones with Steering locks and chip keys.

Or is this just the usual slow news week type of article by knowledge deficient journalists.

If they need the turbo timer to hot wire them why dont they just hotwire the two wires that the turbo timer keeps the ignition on till it shuts down.
After all it is really only an adjustable timer and a relay.
Seems weird to me.
Only thing I can see is that it exposes the two connecting wires to make it easier. Would think you would still need the key as above.