Well folks, I figure if a fellow doesn't want a Turbo he doesn't need to have one or justify why he doesn't need on.:thumbsup:
On the other hand if you want a turbo then you can get one without justifying why!:thumbsup:
On the other hand if a technical discussion is being entered into most of us here don't got the education in that field to properly express our views. All we can do is parrot whatever data we find. :thumbsup:
However, in the field of running turbochargers on diesel engines, there are millions and millions of hours logged and actuarial data to support their strong benefit over cost; not to mention their huge production/performance increase for the relatively small cost increase. Look at the industry. Other than small baby diesel engines, we live in a world that has moved on to turbo diesel engines.
Some people forget that their mighty CUT has less hp than my simple little lawn mower. My larger zero turn radius lawn mower has a 31 hp diesel engine. That's far more than a good percentage of the tractors owned here. Even on that sized engine, look into the engineering notes and you'll see not only where it was made to accept a turbo charger, but has lines run and brackets to attach a proper turbo charger.
My Kubota RTV1100 sucked on power as a naturally aspirated powered diesel. To me, it was a 17k waste. I added the appropriate factory Kubota turbo charger to it a while back and, oh snap, the machine comes to life and is an amazing machine. It went from almost never being used, 22 hours in the first year, to having almost 50 hours put on it since installing the turbo. Smoother, stronger and absolutely positively zero turbo whine (bummer).
If someone doubts the additional power provided by turbochargers, just go take the twin turbo chargers off of a D11 Cat dozer and try to use it. It's a worthless hunk of steel. Remind the operator to stop and let the oiler service the unit, saving the turbochargers) and he has a beast of a machine that pushes out thousands of HP and torque and will last tens of thousands of hours. No detailed pictures, but here is that D11. But, no, turbos are not so important on tractors. LOL! I think repairing and operating that sort of equipment qualifies me more than parroting incorrect information posted on the web. I've been trained, been there, done that, and ruined several T-shirts.
In that first pic, you can see my son up playing in the operator's seat, but you can also clearly see a new turbo mounted on the machine with the box the turbo came on still sitting on the tracks. They were replaced, I had proper oil pressure, the temp gun told me I had proper lubrication flow, there were no oil leaks, the power was back and I was finished!
