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Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: rallydiesel on April 21, 2009, 08:40:08 pm
I've seen these going for pretty cheap on ebay. It's a Holset VNT He351Ve turbo. Came stock on a Cummins 6.7 engine. Interesting thing is the vnt range is equivalent to 3cm^2 all the way to 25cm^2 exhaust housing. With that much range you'd think it could be made to work for an engine our size.

Currently can be found on ebay item  180348738968.
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: maxfax on April 21, 2009, 08:53:07 pm
I'd be wary of those things selling so cheap...  I have to wonder why they were removed.. Not really much out there as an upgrade for these yet..
The 6.7 has has alot of turbo problems, soot related from their half a$$ed attempt at meeting emissions standards... Best case scenario they can be cleaned and the vanes un stuck, but Cummins has had to eat just quite a few of these too...

The next thing could be cramming that sucker under the hood  :shock:
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: blackdogvan on April 22, 2009, 09:31:51 am
Cummins Holset Vs. K26.

Ya, bit different...

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/546375.jpg)

(http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/546376.jpg)

Stole the photo's from a mercedes diesel forum.

There are a few VNT builds there but no new or better control ideas.

The vane control on these turbos is way different from the garrett turbo's, maybe way better from a sticking due to carbon buildup point of view.

maxfax, looks a wee bit sooty, huh.
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: 53 willys on April 22, 2009, 12:02:00 pm
lol

looks spoolable!!!!


reason these units are so cheap is cummins guys dont like or really care for VNT turbos....traditional turbos seem to work lots better for the high performance cummins.

k26 on our car=LAG
VNT cummins turbo on our car=might as well be a NA.
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: rallydiesel on April 22, 2009, 12:24:29 pm
lol, now that I see them side-by-side...  :oops:
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: maxfax on April 22, 2009, 01:42:34 pm
Quote from: "rallydiesel"
lol, now that I see them side-by-side...  :oops:



 :lol:    That's kinda what I was thinking.. The ebay pic isn;t too good at showing the size of those things...

I thought in stock form the VNT worked well on the 6.7..  THe problem is the darned EGR..  I've had a few of those engines that were soo soooty it gunked up the intake air heater to the point cold starting was compromised...
I guess after about 20 different ecm flashes they have gotten better..   2 bucks wioth of steel plate cut in the shape of the EGR gaskests seems to be the best solution though...
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: blackdogvan on April 22, 2009, 02:56:02 pm
I like the cummins 3cyl warm up idle.

As for the Holset, ya toooo big. Sprinter GT22's are becoming pretty plentiful tho. We just need someone to figure out the best adapter plate...
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: aidan on April 23, 2009, 10:32:21 am
Has anyone got any specs on the 6.7 these come off? I.e what rpm is max torque, what pressure it runs, even a dyno of a stock one? Can't seem to find anything on google that isn't about a modified one
Title: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: 53 willys on April 23, 2009, 12:50:56 pm
Quote from: "aidan"
Has anyone got any specs on the 6.7 these come off? I.e what rpm is max torque, what pressure it runs, even a dyno of a stock one? Can't seem to find anything on google that isn't about a modified one


http://www.everytime.cummins.com/every/applications/dodge_ram/ram67.page
stock dyno
http://www.everytime.cummins.com/sites/every/applications/dodge_ram/ram67.page?section=ratings



VNT or not a 6.7 cummins turbo is a waste on a small 4cyl like what we have....maybe as a dyno queen??? you would probably still have to lite the dang thing off with NX to get moving....... :lol:
my.02
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: OM617 on June 21, 2009, 03:20:41 am
Even being a VGT, that 351VE would probably spool around 4000rpm and surge like no other on a VW.

Those pictures are mine. I got rid of that turbo because I decided it was much too large even for my 3.0L MB diesel. Most of the units on ebay were removed due to soot caking in the exhaust restricting vane movement. There is nothing wrong with them and most are nearly brand new! A quick tear down and soot removal is all they need to get back into new condition.

They soot up quick because the 6.7 cummins retards the injection timing to make the exhaust really hot and burn off DPF soot. Making the engine run hot and dirty to make it clean, kind of an oxymoron isn't it?  ::)
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: foxracer1 on June 21, 2009, 08:31:53 am
Yeah but the government stardards are there to help clean the air. Cause when an engine consumes more fuel while trying to produce cleaner air its better right?

I followed a cummins on the highway i smelled raw fuel got concerned looked at my gauges  then smelled a chlorine almost pool water smell. I realized the cummins was burning off the dpf. Such a dumb theory.

Tell me how useing more fuel is better. The emissions can't be better when its dumping raw fuel into the exhaust stream.
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: 53 willys on June 21, 2009, 10:46:19 am
it might be dirty on the inlet of the DPF filters....but it's cleaner out the tail pipe and that's all they care about ;)


chlorine smell is the catalytic converters/filters nothing to do with the regen that the 6.7 cummins does....my jeep grand Cherokee has the Mercedes 3.0 v6 CR diesel and it's cleaner then their gas engines..and has the same swimming pool smell..(no regen though so it's gotta be the filters)

Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: jtanguay on June 21, 2009, 02:16:46 pm
I always got a kick out of the air pumps fitted to later carbed engines that blew air into the exhaust.  Their biggest effect on emissions was simply dilution at the expense of robbing horsepower and lowering overall engine efficiency.  LOL!

yea i wonder who came up with that bright idea... 'well rather than reduce emissions the right way, lets do it the sneaky way'. i bet the EPA loved that!!!  :o ;D
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: OM617 on June 21, 2009, 04:02:52 pm
my jeep grand Cherokee has the Mercedes 3.0 v6 CR diesel
Your Jeep is a Bluetec, it has a DPF.
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: RabbitJockey on June 21, 2009, 08:34:23 pm
i think one of those could be made to work, was it mjf and turbo j were talking about a guy that did 270hp with an hx35 which is a larger turbo with a split turbine.  it's a similar sized compressor though.  you'd just need an engine that can breath to really make it run, and it obviously wouldn't spool very quickly down low,  and when it would surge it already has built in surge protection.  but they posted the dyno of the guy with 270hp, and he started making a big leap in power around 3500rpm(where he already had 125hp), i would think the he351 vnt would spool quicker being that it's a vnt.  it's definitely something worth experimenting with imo.  dave used very large turbo on his 195hp build i think it was a t3/to4e 60 trim maybe?  i forget the specs and he never posted them all together you gotta skim the whole thread to get them.  obviously this isn't the turbo for someone trying to make 150hp on their dd but i think on a 1.6/1.9 or aaz built for big numbers it would be a good choice.  but i don't really know that much about turbo sizing, it seems not to apply well to diesel engines tho.
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: OM617 on June 22, 2009, 04:29:20 am
An HE351 is much closer to an HX40 than a 35.
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: foxracer1 on June 22, 2009, 06:59:45 am
it might be dirty on the inlet of the DPF filters....but it's cleaner out the tail pipe and that's all they care about ;)


chlorine smell is the catalytic converters/filters nothing to do with the regen that the 6.7 cummins does....my jeep grand Cherokee has the Mercedes 3.0 v6 CR diesel and it's cleaner then their gas engines..and has the same swimming pool smell..(no regen though so it's gotta be the filters)



I know why they are doing it and i think it is absolutley retarded. The chlorine smell is from the regen and catalyst combined to "make the air cleaner". But if your wasting more fuel how is it beneficial? I just don't agree with their methods. It sucks cause the engine manufactures are forced to do this to meet the strict emissions.

Sorry to hi jack.

I agree I think its worth a shot to try the holset VNT.
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: 53 willys on June 22, 2009, 07:05:19 am
my jeep grand Cherokee has the Mercedes 3.0 v6 CR diesel
Your Jeep is a Bluetec, it has a DPF.
yeah I know it has a DPF (diesel particulate filter)....but it does not run a regen mode like the cummins.



it might be dirty on the inlet of the DPF filters....but it's cleaner out the tail pipe and that's all they care about ;)


chlorine smell is the catalytic converters/filters nothing to do with the regen that the 6.7 cummins does....my jeep grand Cherokee has the Mercedes 3.0 v6 CR diesel and it's cleaner then their gas engines..and has the same swimming pool smell..(no regen though so it's gotta be the filters)



I know why they are doing it and i think it is absolutley retarded. The chlorine smell is from the regen and catalyst combined to "make the air cleaner". But if your wasting more fuel how is it beneficial? I just don't agree with their methods. It sucks cause the engine manufactures are forced to do this to meet the strict emissions.

Sorry to hi jack.

I agree I think its worth a shot to try the holset VNT.
my jeep does NOT do regen...thats what i'm saying the filter smell like chlorine.. not the regen mode....
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: foxracer1 on June 22, 2009, 07:48:43 am
Don't jeeps have Blutec which injects urea?
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: 53 willys on June 22, 2009, 07:56:31 am
Don't jeeps have Blutec which injects urea?

That I don't know?
Where does the urea come from?
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: 53 willys on June 22, 2009, 08:18:21 am
my jeep is not a blutec.....no jeeps have bluetec yet...MB saved that for their cars and SUV's only. 2009-2010 jeeps are supposed to have the urea injection and will be classifed as "bluetec"
even the blue tec does not have the same regen that the cummins has.....
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: RabbitJockey on June 22, 2009, 02:13:21 pm
An HE351 is much closer to an HX40 than a 35.
  so was i thinking of the earlier non vnt turbo they had in the early 2000s?
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: rallydiesel on June 22, 2009, 02:57:12 pm
Maybe your thinking of the hy35?
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: RabbitJockey on June 22, 2009, 04:02:39 pm
yeah it's like an hy35 and almost the same but they call it something different, and i thought there was just a vnt version of it
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: andy2 on June 22, 2009, 05:48:43 pm
That cummins VGT turbo is from the 6.7 L engine.Dave's T3/t4 had a 54 mm inducer and was very similar to the hy35 used on the 5.9 L.
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: foxracer1 on June 22, 2009, 07:33:16 pm
The HY35 is from 01-02 autos and the HX35 is from manuals and early auto 24v.
HY35 has a 9cm
HX35 has a 12cm

Check this out http://dodgeram.org/tech/dsl/FAQ/turbo_faq.htm
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: OM617 on June 22, 2009, 07:41:14 pm
yeah I know it has a DPF (diesel particulate filter)....but it does not run a regen mode like the cummins.
All DPF vehicles regenerate. Mercedes (and in turn, Jeep) makes it as unobtrusive as possible. Dodge (Cummins) displays it because they know their customers need/want to know that kind of information for towing and maintenance.

Quote
my jeep does NOT do regen...thats what i'm saying the filter smell like chlorine.. not the regen mode....
It does regen, you are just made unaware of it happening.

Don't jeeps have Blutec which injects urea?
No. Urea injection is AdBlue, seperate from Bluetec.

my jeep is not a blutec.....no jeeps have bluetec yet.
All MB powered Jeeps were bluetec from day one.
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: RabbitJockey on June 22, 2009, 07:52:03 pm
The HY35 is from 01-02 autos and the HX35 is from manuals and early auto 24v.
HY35 has a 9cm
HX35 has a 12cm

Check this out http://dodgeram.org/tech/dsl/FAQ/turbo_faq.htm
they both have the same compressor though, the exhaust side is a split scroll or w/e on the hx35, and all other hx turbos.  there is an he351 that is not a vgt i was right but it has a much larger compressor wheel and better housings, i just stole that from this site (http://www.turbododge.com/forums/f4/f19/127389-holset-he351-hy35-56k-beware.html) but i knew i had read it before
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: Smokey Eddy on June 22, 2009, 10:53:15 pm

k26 on our car=LAG
VNT cummins turbo on our car=might as well be a NA.

You just need a turbo or two to spool it :P then it wont be NA at 80psi!
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: theman53 on August 17, 2014, 09:13:32 am
Sorry to bump this old thread but after running the he221w on the 1.6 I think this turbo would be an option. Also, I think that this one would be almost perfect. Good luck finding one though.
Holset HE341Ve

Compressor
Exducer: 76.5mm
Inducer: 53mm
14 blades
48 trim

Turbine
Inducer: 69mm
Exducer: 59.4mm
11 blades

Total weight 39lbs

Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: TimpanogosSlim on August 19, 2014, 12:12:38 pm
fwiw i think it's not that VNTs don't perform well on the big cummins, it's that the vanes get stuck, and THEN they don't perform well
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: pajamas on October 26, 2014, 05:11:11 pm
I don't know if anyone is considering doing this, but be trust me, it needs to be compounded with a smaller turbo to even have a chance being fairly drivable. It might work well if drag racing is the cars' only purpose. You can close the vanes so far that it lowers the volumetric efficiency enough that it won't rev, but it's still miserably slow to spool.

(http://i.imgur.com/zteqR9pl.jpg)
Newb account won't let me link to the full size picture :-/ Probably for a good reason.
http://i (dot) imgur.com/zteqR9p.jpg
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: RabbitJockey on October 26, 2014, 05:26:00 pm
I don't know if anyone is considering doing this, but be trust me, it needs to be compounded with a smaller turbo to even have a chance being fairly drivable. It might work well if drag racing is the cars' only purpose. You can close the vanes so far that it lowers the volumetric efficiency enough that it won't rev, but it's still miserably slow to spool.

(http://i.imgur.com/zteqR9pl.jpg)
Newb account won't let me link to the full size picture :-/ Probably for a good reason.
http://i (dot) imgur.com/zteqR9p.jpg

what car and engine is this?


and yes, this turbo is absolutely too big except for in a compound setup
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: pajamas on October 26, 2014, 05:59:43 pm
what car and engine is this?
The car is an AMC, and the engine is, well... a 1.6d ME TDI?

Are they considered direct injected after you gut the throttles in the head, ...
(http://i.imgur.com/ak0Husul.jpg)
and adapt new injectors into them?
(http://i.imgur.com/v2Oj3N6l.jpg)

I don't really wanna hijack this guy's thread even though it's ancient, but I have an idea of how to spool it without compounding it. It just take time. Well time to make money, a fair sum of money. :-(
 
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: RabbitJockey on October 26, 2014, 06:37:46 pm
what car and engine is this?
The car is an AMC, and the engine is, well... a 1.6d ME TDI?

Are they considered direct injected after you gut the throttles in the head, ...
(http://i.imgur.com/ak0Husul.jpg)
and adapt new injectors into them?
(http://i.imgur.com/v2Oj3N6l.jpg)


I don't really wanna hijack this guy's thread even though it's ancient, but I have an idea of how to spool it without compounding it. It just take time. Well time to make money, a fair sum of money. :-(


please make a thread detailing your build, that car is very very interesting
Title: Re: Holset VNT turbo
Post by: libbydiesel on October 26, 2014, 08:22:31 pm
I agree.  I want to see more.