On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:55:27 -0700 Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Yah some dude went off telling me how turbo rotating assemblies dont > need to be balanced and Kent has sold hundreds of turbo rebuild kits > and they dont need to be balanced because these "aren't race cars going > 7000rpm". I opined that this must mean every turbo rebuild shop in > existence must be doing it wrong and wasting money on balancing > machines. No reply yet. Yes, there certainly is a disconnect between their ideas and the real world. The 15 liter engine in my Kenworth is even less a race car going 7000 RPM, but the much-larger-than-Mercedes turbo it has sure spins up to many tens of thousands of RPM. Craig _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
