BIG turbos make everything easier!

[MK3Brent]

I've slowly been phasing in the GT4088 to replace my old T-66.

I don't know if it's a Garrett thing, but those 4 bolts that hold on the turbine housing make life SOOOO much easier when it comes to installing and pulling the turbo.

You just back out those 8mm bolts, and the who turbo slides out... way nicer design than the plate style clamps.

But yeah.

Bolts on big turbos are so much easier to access.

All I really needed to do was make a longer oil return:

and make a riser so clear the turbo from the manifold.

 

[IJ.]

Go Brent!

What's the silver pipe lower left in the last pic?

 

[MK3Brent]

The hose aiming towards the stepper motor for the boost controller?

That's just the oil feed.

 

[IJ.]

Doh!

Second last pic I mean
(guessing it's part of the Aircon?)
Opposite to ours being LHD

 

[MK3Brent]

Yep.

I'm pulling them out, since the car doesn't have AC anymore.

 

[IJ.]

Pity about the big arse lump in the Firewall it must make big dump pipes hard to squeeze in there.

 

[MK3Brent]

Yup.

I'm thinking my downpipe will require a little trimming.
Basically I'm going to try and make a tighter 90 degree.

 

[IJ.]

Damn that's tight!

Time to look at how others have solved the issue (fondling my RHD Firewall with heaps of room for my 3.5" dp)

 

[MK3Brent]

I'll have no problem getting my 3" DP in there... it's just the work of cutting my old dp that I haven't done yet... maybe sometime next week.

 

[QWIKSTRIKE]

Welcome to the darkside of boosting gt4088 style.

 

[suprahooked]

What a/r is your gt4088?

 

[MK3Brent]

72 compressor, and special 81 turbine from precision.

 

[QWIKSTRIKE]

Yup.

I'm thinking my downpipe will require a little trimming.
Basically I'm going to try and make a tighter 90 degree.

I got a heater hose that goes across the back fire wall and u turns and j's into the heater core to alleviate heat fracture failure.

 

[MK3Brent]

I was considering bypassing them.

I don't use the heater, and the car is only driven in the spring/summer.

 

[Doward]

What manifold are you running?

 

[MK3Brent]

SSAutochrome.

Here is the rear housing.

 

[Doward]

So you need a fairly large adapter to get the turbo up where you need it, eh? Did you build the adapter, or buy it somewhere?

 

[starscream5000]

That's a pretty snail you got there .

 

[MK3Brent]

So you need a fairly large adapter to get the turbo up where you need it, eh? Did you build the adapter, or buy it somewhere?

Built it myself.

 

[MK3Brent]

That's a pretty snail you got there .

Thanks!