This Turbo Disastrously Sucks-In A Workshop Rag From Four Feet Away
Holy mother of turbo-related calamities! You’ll need to watch this one over and over again, because it takes some serious seeing-to-believe.
While on a test run, mounted on a dyno, a green car with a stripped front end ramps up the revs. All is normal; all is fine. And then… a rag that had been tossed down on top of a printer close – but not that close – to the rig starts to flutter into the air. Before you know what’s happening the whole thing has been sucked into the turbo at high speed.
To clarify, the sheer vacuum generated by the turbo was strong enough to lift the rag up into the air from at least several feet away, before the turbo itself brutally tears it to shreds in the process of eating it, like some kind of T-Rex on hard drugs.
The results for the engine will probably have been catastrophic. We sometimes joke about high-powered cars having turbos that could suck up babies and small animals, but this one actually might. Stay safe out there, kids.
Source: Jalopnik
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I remembered an article on a man who put his finger too close to a turbo and got his finger literally eaten by it, all that’s left was a stump.
Lesson : don’t stick your fingers into places it isn’t suppose to be and let the boost do its job
A boss once told me in a machine shop “don’t put your hand anywhere you wouldn’t put you dick…”
It’s always stuck with me.
That turbo has the force
I saw this video about a year ago. It was fun to watch. Always put screens on your turbos people.
This is something you could see randomly on tumblr, and just lose it because it’s so out of the blue.
Wingardium Leviosa!
Take the filter off for better dyno numbers they said, don’t worry about it they said, you won’t destroy the car on a dyno they said.
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maybe there was a cooling fan running just out of shot…..or does that kinda spoil the effect ?
How small is that intercooler!?
Maybe it’s an air to water intercooler?
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