So after a 20 min ride i return home and look under the hood and the exhaust side of the turbo is glowing. Literally its bright orange, ive read some posts and apparently the glowing orange color is reflective of 1700+ degrees so right now im scared to drive the car any ideas guys or is this perfectly normal. Its a watercooled gt35r turbo and i always allow the car 2-3 mins to cool down when im done driving

 

Probably too hot. I've stuffed two turbos this way.

Possibly your timing is too retarded.

 

you think thats bad,? I had the manifold, turbo and downpipe literally see through glowing orange, checked the logs the car was pulling MASSIVE amounts of timing under boost, I think the METH failsafe was activiated somehow by my AEM controller doing something stupid

 

Either youre timing is excessively retarted ( no pun intented ) or youre dumping too much fuel . Either way its not healthy for the exhaust side of things .

 

Evans tuning did my car I'm going to send him my logs and see what he says.

 

Evans tuning did Joeys car too.

 

Just as a little backround info I was beating on the car during that drive, my girlfriend was waiting for me and I was already late. Also I popped the hood to let the engine cool a little faster once it was parked, I let it continue to run with the hood up and the color went away in less then 3 minutes. None of these facts make me feel any better about it

I'm running an AEM EMS with the UEGO A/F pinned into the ecu, my A/F numbers are right at 11-1 which seems right where it should be under full throttle.

 

What kind of kit are you running that everything was glowing. I have the inline pro kit with that bullet proof log manifold it'd take a shit load of heat to make that thing glow, during this little escapade nothing else was glowing it was really just the exhaust side of the turbo.

 

I would care less about the turbo/manifold/downpipe, it's the exhaust valves I'd be worried about.

 

Point well taken, but I can't see them so any easier way to tell if they are fried