any ides?
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It looks like the actuator hose, on my car they run above the big water pipe going into the turbo. It looks like the metal hose clips have been sat on the compressor housing transferring the heat into the pipe.

 

The larger pipe is the coolant feed to the turbo...This will get moderately hot but I wouldn't have thought enough to burn the small turbo to actuator pipes

I would get some replacements from a breakers, swap them and keep an eye on it from there. Be aware that the small pipe to the RHS of the T piece contains a brass restrictor.

Strange

 

do you think this could be a symtom of a bigger problem?

 

I don't think so.

The small pipes connect between the pressure side of the turbo, the wastegate actuator and the boost control solenoid. All they do is carry pressurised air.

The melted pipes sit above the inlet side of the turbo, so shouldn't be getting too hot - the melting looks to be very localised though, and i noticed that the underside of the coolant pipe looks very slightly melted too ?

<scratches head>

 

yeah the larger pipe (coolant feed) is melted as well , dont know if the coolant pipe is melting the smaller ones or vice versa

 

i agree. Just move the pipes or clips if you can and the problem will disspapear

Andy

 

everything seems quite tight so dont think theres much chance of moving it far

 

twist the coolant one around a bit so it doesnt touch the actuator pipes

does you turbo get hotter then normal?
are you running 5bar boost on a tdo4?

 

ha ha completely stock standard mate apart from prodrive backbox

 

Jeez, a scoobynet account as well