Hi there,

I was talking with a friend of my son's last night who runs a heavily modded (380 bhp) SEAT Ibiza, and he was talking about an electric secondary water pump that is fitted that can run after switch off to cool the turbo.

He said it is fitted as standard to AUQ blocks, but I can find no reference to it in the Haynes book of lies. Is this likely to be an aftermarket torbo cooler - this is not a turbo timer device - it is a physical pump according to him.

If it does exist, whereabouts does it live please. It was too dark to look at his car last night.

Many thanks

Never heard of it. Sounds like hes blowing smoke up your a$$

We don't have them on our 20vt engines.

They are fitted to the MK3 Cupra due to the small engine bay, and the 210/225 bhp engines.

Thanks for ckearing that up, - was begining to think I was going blind when he said where it should be.

Was just gonna say it's fitted to the LCR, TT and S3's.

Techie, what would it inolve in plumbing it into the octy's engine bay? From what I gather it's powered from the fan controller under the battery.

Was gonna say the lcrs have some sort of boost pump that sits in behind the fans, i remember as i bypassed it when i did an old bam engine conversion

Was just gonna say it's fitted to the LCR, TT and S3's.

Techie, what would it inolve in plumbing it into the octy's engine bay? From what I gather it's powered from the fan controller under the battery.

I guess you'd just need a convenient place to mount the pump, a water feed and return line to and from the turbo and plumb the pump into the main cooling system. Then just wire it up to the fan switch so it runs when the rad fans are working.