well progressing slowly......very slowly...... but just picked up another piece of my diesel puzzle..


The company I work for just purchased and renovated a new building that we will be moving into shortly. The building was built out for semi conductor work and two huge clean rooms.

I walk into the back and there sits one of the old waste water filtration units with a 100 gallon tank. Has an industrial version of the whole house filters, probably 24 inches tall and 10 of them all plumbed in. I still need to look it over, only had about 10 minutes,I was getting a tour of the new building. I inquired and the boss man says take it....

there is a pump motor, a small holding tank and then the large holding tank plus tons of filter units. they range from 10 micron on the label down to .2....was some sort of multiple stage water filtration. Hopefully the filters aren't to expensive but i would expect them to last a very long time,but at this point it doesn't matter because it looks like i have 90% of what i wanted to build now for FREE. my favorite word.....

I am hoping to set it up for WMO processing. I have a clean supply of used oil.

 

picked up another test turbo last night.
its a Schwitzer S1BG . no real refrenece to this turbo other then there is 200+ S1B turbo all different.

I will be taking dimensions from this little thing today and posting them. Luckily it is the same T25 exhaust flange so swapping will be easy once I get my header built.

So this came off a small 4 cylinder duetz 88HP diesel. my brother in law is going to look into records and find out exactly what the motor was. It was originally from a large mower.

Not sure how it will perform but testing is in order. Will post pictures later today compared to my gt1572.

Thanks
Ken

 

Here is the GT1752 on the Left and the S1BG schwitzer on the right.

The S1BG came off a 2.1L diesel that made 68HP, with the wastegate opening at 13 psi. So it may be a little small but I will still test it once the truck is together.

 

OK.. just picked up my soon to be waste oil filration unit. kind of overkill!!! with some plumbing changes. Going to run 3 filters in series with finer and finer filters, thinking 2 banks so I can just switch from one to the other when flow starts slowing and can clean / change filters on the non used bank. Going to sell the UV sterilizer, help fund the project. I will use the pump but it is also overkill. 3HP




Thanks
Ken

 

Ken: in my experienced opinion. You would be better off to sell that system and buy a centrifuge. It will do a better job and you should have some extra in your pocket. After. Also if you decide to not clean oil later on you could install it on your truck or resell it. Once you start pumping oil thru the filters. It will be a lot harder to sell.

 

Dan- I may look into that. My wife was not happy last night when I pulled up with this thing. I guess I had it coming. I told her it was a little filtration contraption...forgot to tell her it is over 6 ft tall...oops

what all would I need for a centrifuge system?

 

Ken: go to eBay and type in biodiesel. You can get a centrifuge alone or with pump and motor. You might be able to use a motor and pump from the equip. You build at work???? I like the PA systems, you can get whatever you want from them. Order an extra set of seals with it, I case of stretching.

 

A few thoughts for your boosting project:

I have I believe an identical Garrett, but their nomenclature is a bit screwy so called a TB2568, off a Saab.

My Isuzu 1.9L 4FB1 primaries will be @ 1.3", and will merge into the same @ 1.5" flange. Diesel exhaust is relatively cool in comparison to gas motors, @400-600* LESS, so keeping heat and velocity up in the exhaust system to drive the turbo is important without choking it higher up in the RPM's. Which is probably what that other turbo was doing for it to create only 60HP. But a motor and a lot of variables I don't have time to research.

Gasses cool during expansion, which is not what you want in a diesel turbo manifold. And the larger rectangle flange will allow that to happen. The smaller inlet on the GT17 will keep your exhaust velocity much higher=spool quicker, and create a cooler boost charge at lower RPM's.

Boost PSI is a measure of a restriction. That is all. The higher the boost, the higher the heat created as the air is compressed. Exactly how diesels ignite fuel. So regardless of what the "drift" crowd thinks, mile high PSI boost does not always create the most power. Higher heat = less oxygen for given amount "gulped" by engine. Of course there are variables, and I am simplifying.

I feel that you will be happier overall with the garrett on the street. My only goal for my 4fb1 is @ 2PSI @ 2,000rpm during cruise. Everything else, max boost, ect doesn't matter to me personally.

Don't suppose I could talk you into making an T304 SST flange as you have the programming? haha They seem awfully expensive for what they really are retail price.

Anyways, very best of luck!

 

I can make you the flange no problem. Not sure what the market is asking for them. The port on my gt1752 is about .06 off center. You would need to see if yours is centered.

I am trying to keep velocity as high as possible. I am hoping to smooth transition from the 4 x 1.1 id pipes into one 1.38 id will keep velocity as high as possible. I will be keeping runners short. For the first round i will just wrap the header but at a later date with testing I will get it coated. I think the 1752 will work pretty good. My brother in law that gave me the s1bg also has a turbo from a 3.3 Cummins he is giving me.

I think a gt1544"off the vw 1.9l diesel would work really well also.

thanks
ken

 

Ken: have you figured out what model duetz engine your brother has?