GT2052S project thread number three

[306Puggy]

Day three update:

Again, a mixed bag today. Got the mani stud sorted and wastegate attached. Primed the turbo for five five second bursts on the starter, all good. Then needed to get the inlet mani on and this is where things took a turn for the worst. It seems like I did accidently cut the threads in the inlet mani mounting bolt holes on at least one of them, so I had to use the left over exhaust stud to fill the gap there. A solution but still annoying. You can just see the exhaust stud nut poking out here:



Another thing is the petrol gubbins on the turbo giving me trouble getting the driver's side inlet bolt in, I am thinking about cutting the bolt down to add clearance, or even just taking a file to the head of the bolt as that is what's catching.



In other news, it looks like 14 inches is too long of a length for the oil feed hose, I have a lot of excess. I should have gone with the 12 inches as suggested or maybe 13 to be on the safe side. I did try to route it round for the other side to make use of the excess but even 14 inches isn't quite enough to do that. Although I did have the engine block outlet to the side instead of straight up, maybe that's why.



As you can also see I have had to radge up an oil return line extension because it looks as though for some reason the K14 return line isn't reaching the rubber hose like it does with the original K14 unit.

Once the inlet mani is on I need to top up the coolant because I had to undo the heater matrix pipes to fit the turbo down the back and then go for a test fire. I am nervous as hell about this, keep seeming to put it off, it's just so much effort to go to if things don't work out. I will see if I can catch a video in any case.