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good luck man

 

GL man, might want a glow shift oil sandwich adapter. Don't think I saw that in the list.

 

Oh yeah I've been meaning to order one but I actually forgot about that, thanks. Now that I ordered that I have 8 different packages in route to my house right now :lol:

 

Nice man. So who is doing your tune? What kind of boost control you thinking of? What's your whp goals?

 

Thanks, the tuning will be done by me and a friend of mine who has a good amount of experience tuning and has tuned a few cars including his own 2g. As for power goals for now I'm just hoping to get up over 200 whp.

 

Started the install yesterday and have made some good progress. The only thing I'm not sure about is what I'm going to do about a downpipe. I think I'll have a shop custom make one, I'll just have to find a shop. I've read that people go to midas for a downpipe, but I'm not sure yet. Here's a pic so far

 

MOOAAR!!!
Nice little setup, VIDS when your done :ndance:

 

:agreed:

lets get some more pics. just make sure you tow your car to wherever till you get the downpipe. driving it is one sure way to kill your car

 

some interesting pipe routing going on there. can you snap a pic from the other side?

 

You can see it better with these pics

 

Where's the turbo in there? Its really fuzzy on my comp. Close ups please.

 

so your turbo is upside down i assume from the way it's routed there. or did you just run your intake to the passenger side?


edit: I see now just clocked 180* so compressor outlet is facing up.

 

Alright I got everything on and it starts right up. I haven't tuned it yet. Right now I'm running no downpipe just to test it. However when I start it after maybe 15 seconds oil starts to come out of the 02 housing, and it's quite a bit of oil that sprays out constantly. So I thought it was bad turbo seals and I changed it out for another turbo that I know is good and it does the exact same thing. And I checked my return line and it's not kinked or leaking I'm pretty sure. And obviously it's not the engine. The only thing I could possibly think is that the oil pan isn't taped high enough but I'm pretty sure it is.

 

Yea you need to tap as high as you can in the oil pan

 

Yea I don't think thats the problem. I wonder if a restrictor would help

 

I'd be really careful with running that engine like that. I recall another member here who blew his stock engine because his downpipe was disconnected from his headers and he revved the engine when it was low on oil and up on jack stands.

 

Yea I've been topping up the oil and I'm not touching the gas and I only run it for a minute. Just trying to figure out why the oil is coming out of the 02 housing.

 

You're putting way too much oil pressure on that turbo and its blowing the seals right away. Show us you're feed and return setup for it. Chances are the feed is too big and/or the return isn't set up right.

I saw someone said your turbo is upside down? There's only one way you can put oil through the turbo and it has to be top to bottom.

 

Ok heres a pic of my feed and return lines

 

Probably that blue adapter fitting is the wrong size and letting too much oil pass. What size is the feed line/fitting?


Also will your hood close properly with the turbo clocked like that?

 

Yes the hood closes no problem. So basically I need a restrictor you're saying. The sizes are 4 an line, 12x1.25

 

I don't think a restrictor is needed on mitsu turbos. Since that blue adapter fits that's most likely the right size (-4an). Do you have a oil pressure gauge hooked up?

 

Yea I have an oil pressure gauge all wired up just not plugged into the gauge. I'll go plug it in and see what it reads.

 

Nope. Where's your feed coming from?

 

The only way is with a restrictor which I shouldn't need with my turbo. And I have a oil sandwich adapter

 

How big is your feed? How big is your return? The feed should be no bigger then AN 4. The return should be much bigger.

 

4 an. And my return is big enough.

 

I would think a restrictor would work. Even though people say my turbo doesnt need it I'm gonna try it I think. Because I can't see anything else it could be.

 

What kind of oil are you using and what's your oil pressure? Answer the question, where is your feed coming from? This is very important. A lot of DSM's feed from the head, where pressure is substantially lower then at the oil housing where most non factory turbo cars feed from. What oil pressure is the turbo seeing through that line?

 

I'm just using cheap 10w30 since its leaking. Oil feed is from the filter. That's a good point im considering switching the feed over to the head. I didn't know the pressure was that different.I'll get the exact pressure shortly

 

Yeah switching from the sandwich adapter to the block seems to help a lot of people from my google searching. The block is bspt not npt so you'd need yet another adapter lol.

 

Alright cool ill definatly switch that and see what happens. and if I have to get one more adapter I'm gonna go insane. I've made no less then 10 trips to summit and other stores to get random adapters and shit lol

 

I wish i lived near a summit store. Advance auto never has anything I need.

 

:agreed:

 

Yea if I wasn't close to summit this would have taken me 3x longer