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Hi mate, build is looking good! as Rich has said the turbo oil feed return needs to return to the sump by gravity! you may hold up oil in the turbo having it this low. why dont cut the T3 flange end away from the adaptor and weld it directly onto the manifold turbo flange? that way it will bring the turbo back up to a nice level? or do it proper and grind off the old turbo flange and weld a t3 fitment one in its place!:D
another little update after a few pints down the pub on friday me and a few mates was gonna go round my garage and hopefully get the painting done underneath the car with some hammerite but as we was in the pub one thing led to another then we went back to my mates for a party which ended up getting a bit out of hand till a realized it was 7am and decided to go home and get some sleep so the garage was out of the question so i stayed inbed and thought i would go down there sunday with a better head and vision
plus i would be on my own so i would mostprobably get something done lol
first off was getting the under neath sanded down and wiped over with some thinners
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i only got the boot area done at the mo just wanna see what it comes out like first plus i needs another coat aswell
plus i got a pic of the turbo for you r1ch will try and get a better one as my phone had low battery
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Difficult to tell off those pics really !!
You still need to rotate the centre housing around so the oil drain is at the bottom.
Easier way to check if its gonna be ok ... see if you can get a straight peice of hose / pipe to fit on the end of the oil drain in the block so its sticking out at 90 degrees to the block (basically just extending the fitting thats already in the block) and comes out further than the turbo, that way once you've got the oil drain on the turbo at the bottom you can just measure the vertical distance between the oil drain on the turbo (try and measure from the actual centre housing on the turbo) and the centre of the hose thats extended from the block.
Hope that made sense !!
finally got my oil cooler kit off rallydesign and a few over bits aswell aint done nothing since the last update went down there today and everything was not goin right as i went to fit the cooler and the bolt aint long enough will get back to that bit later anyway thats it for the meen time really
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and me new 16 row oil cooler
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and some more braided hose for the brakelines and my facet red top fuel pump
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thats the best pic i could get r1ch i think its too low so im gonna get a flange welded on to the manifold just to save all the hassle plus my mate said that the bend on the exhaust might be too low with it being like that
I reckon that the oil drain will be fine like that mate, appears to be about 1 1/2" difference in height so should drain away fine.
The exhaust it pretty tight where it comes down in front of the gearbox / block but should be able to sort without to many probs, what size downpipe you making 3" ?
I ued a Mongoose 2wd Cossie downpipe on mine, just chopped and rewelded it, just needed to add an extra 90* bend to bring it around the sump.
yeah goin for a 3" all the way through thats what im after a cossie downpipe but not in a rush yet so will get that later tho saving some money up to get my omex 600 management
another little update.i was indoors with yet another (hangover)but thought whats the point of staying in bed all day moaning lol.so i went down the garage to do the inside front arches painted with the hammerite i got.and the little bolt thingy from vauxhall so i could fit the sandwich plate propperly thanks again Ste L for getting me the part number
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i got the other side done but my phone run out of battery plus i started to get a bit of a headache.
and something else turned u at work.my petrol cap i won off ebay beenlooking around for one but nothing caught my eye till this came up
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aint done any updates lately as computer has been really playing up,would not upload my pictures off my phone but thats another story.any way i finally got my inner cv joints which was abit of a pain to get but in the end,but after getting a registration no off my mates old astra gte i got them .so i thought i would have a go on a saturday. afternoon as had a bit of motivation for some weird reason lol and finally got them done was a pain as had no vice but in the end i finally done it after a few hours of swearing
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all fitted up
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