Not necessarily. Somewhere, I have a book on Turbocharging and one of
the examples they used was a 240D. They installed an aftermarket kit and
noted that it made the engine run cleaner and use less fuel. My
recollection is that they ran it a fair number of miles and reported
that it was a successful addition to the car. I suspect that the factory
version might be better in many ways but that does not mean that the
installation done after the fact cannot be done successfully. One will
not get 200HP out of an engine like that but if one is conservative, it
will still improve the engine without destroying it in short order.
If anyone is interested, I will dig the book out and quote from it.
Randy
On 04/07/2013 5:28 PM, OK Don wrote:
Exactly! There other differences besides just the piston cooling oil jets,
but that's one of the most significant. "you WILL melt your PISTONS".
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Alex Chamberlain <apchamberl...@gmail.com>wrote:
Yup. I know there were third-party turbo kits for NA Mercedes diesels
available back in the early '80s, but didn't Dr. Booth always said that
they were a bad idea because the result would lack the factory oil jets to
cool the pistons?
Alex
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