mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) (02/26/85)
[don't bug me now I'm busy] Mitsubishi, who provides all of Chrysler's turbo boosted engines, strongly advises its car owners to both warm up and cool down the turbo before and after driving. They have sent me no less that 3 letters, (one every six months,) telling me to do this. It kind of makes me nervous, except that they keep extending the warranty on the thing also (now it's good for 5 years.) The turbine is spinning at some rather high rpms, it gets extremely hot, consequently, you have to get your oil pressure up to normal before using it, and you also want to let it cool down slowly. Performance always has a price. Mark Roddy (Hey, could you stop running make? I'm trying to read the news!)
doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) (02/27/85)
> Mitsubishi, who provides all of Chrysler's turbo boosted engines,
Say WHAT???? I don't recall Mitsubishi's logo on my Turbo 2.2L.
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Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!dougreview@drutx.UUCP (Millham) (03/01/85)
>Mitsubishi, who provides all of Chrysler's turbo boosted engines, >strongly advises its car owners to both warm up and cool down the >turbo before and after driving. > Mark Roddy WRONG!!!!!!! Mitsubishi has NOTHING to do with Chryslers turbo! It was designed by Chrysler and is built by AiResearch. The 2.2L engine is built by Chrysler NOT MITSUBISHI!!! -------------------------------------------- Brian Millham AT & T Information Systems Denver, Co. ...!inhp4!drutx!review
pauldan@hou2e.UUCP (P.SAUNDERS) (03/01/85)
>Mitsubishi, who provides all of Chrysler's turbo boosted engines, >strongly advises its car owners to both warm up and cool down the >turbo before and after driving. Is this true? I mean, the part about 'bishi providing *all* of Chrysler's turbo engines? I thought that the 2.2L Daytona/Laser turbo was Chrysler's. Dan Masi
44735600@sdcc3.UUCP (Smedley, the Entertainment Orange) (03/04/85)
Mitsubishi DOES NOT make Chrysler's turbomotors; they are all in-house creations. Iacocca does buy Mitsubishi's 2.6L engine, though. E. Orange
rickb@tekig1.UUCP (Rick Bensene) (03/05/85)
> > >Mitsubishi, who provides all of Chrysler's turbo boosted engines, > >strongly advises its car owners to both warm up and cool down the > >turbo before and after driving. > > Is this true? I mean, the part about 'bishi providing *all* of Chrysler's > turbo engines? I thought that the 2.2L Daytona/Laser turbo was Chrysler's. > > > Dan Masi Mitsubishi *DOES NOT* supply the turbo engine in the Daytona/Lazer. The 2.2L engine in those cars! The engine, associated engine controls, turbo- charger, and all are designed and manufactured by Chrysler. The turbo engines in the Colt Turbo, and the Conquest Turbo are engines supplied by Mitsubishi, in fact, the both entire vehicles are manufactured by Mitsubishi for Chrysler as import cars. The Daytona/Lazer is STRICTLY of American design. Regarding turbo cooling on the Chrysler products (not the Mitsubishis) there is no mention in my Turbo Daytona owners manual concerning having to cool down the turbo after ANY type of use. I assume this is because of the water cooled turbocharger bearings. I, though, for safety's sake, leave the engine run at an idle for about 30 seconds before shutting the engine off after I've been out for any speed/acceleration runs. I also use Turbo rated oil, which supposedly is able to resist the higher oil temperatures in turbo-cars, and change the oil and filter religiously every 2 to 3K miles, even though the manual recommends changes every 5K miles. As stated in a message some time ago, performance does cost - if you don't like to change the oil in your car, or aren't willing to take steps to help revent premature failure of certain components in the engine, you shouldn't be driving a performance car in the first place. Plus, I don't consider my Daytona to be a real 'performance' car. It's my every-day-driver car. It gets good mileage (All around average of 27 MPG, with best of 42), handles well, is very comfortable for my 1 hour commute to work, and has so far been very reliable (27.5K miles in 1 1/4 years with no failures). If I want REAL performance, without worrying about turbo fragmentaion, blown head gaskets, toasted oil, or the like, I just wait for a nice day, and get out my '67 Camaro with the 375 Horsepower 396 in it and have some REAL fun. Rick Bensene ..tektronix!tekig1!rickb
tggsu@resonex.UUCP (Tom Gulvin Root) (03/08/85)
> [don't bug me now I'm busy] > > Mitsubishi, who provides all of Chrysler's turbo boosted engines, > strongly advises its car owners to both warm up and cool down the > turbo before and after driving. They have sent me no less that 3 > letters, (one every six months,) telling me to do this. It kind > of makes me nervous, except that they keep extending the warranty > on the thing also (now it's good for 5 years.) > > > Mark Roddy > (Hey, could you stop running make? > I'm trying to read the news!) Wrong Wrong Wrong! The only turbo boosted engines that Mitsubishi ("Flom re peopre that blought ru Peal Harber") supplies to Chrysler are the ones in the Conquest (atom for atom compatible with the Starion) and in the Colt Turbo. All the 2.2l turbo motors are blown with good old Garrett AirResearch turbos. Tom Gulvin - Resonex - Sunnyvale, Ca.