Ph1 Diablo D-turbo - Being Broken Up!

[Jenkosowls]

Well nipped upto Ripps for 5 minutes to trial one of the new braces to see waht needs to be done for them to fit top mounts id taken most of my xantia setup with me so he could tack my turbo in place so i could take it to a cast welder and have it done and not worry bout it going on the piss. well when i say 5 minutes it always ends up being longer as always ended up being 2 days!

Reason being while i was there the brace wont go on with a top mount and i said it would struggle with xantia manifold so offered to take my manifold off so could find out how bad this is where the trouble started what should have been a simpleish job turned out to be a right pig of a job where we had to take the turbo off to get the inlet off because of egr crap! and so i found out my car runs 2 seperate gasket instead of one metal one which ended up be screwed! i had a one piece one set at home so after struggling to get manifolds off ripp then decided he was going to weld the t25 up all in one go! next thing i knew everything seemed to fall in place and ripp suggested why not finish plumbing fmic in which started to do then discovered my braided hose for the turbo would bolt straight on to my oil feed and before i knew it we was bolting that up! the turbo was in place and all tightened up and it became to late and ended for the day.

the following day came to conclusion the turbo elbow was a t poor angle for the exhause and caught on bit and bobs on the sub frame to which it wouldnt sit properly so turbo came off and whipped elbow off and repositioned it fitted fine. bolted every thing back up started it Massive exhaust manifold leak sounds like a petrol! so gave up as it was getting late again and car is drivable but not very good!

Pics of the past few days











Currently running top mount till i can sort everything out. it peaks at 15 psi at 4k but pulses in power and drops to 10 then rises back to 15 due to the leak which is a shame as its not coming into its prime. its just short power wise compared to the k14 but should be peaking quite well once leak is sorted.

Video of the leak


all in all been productive and unexpected few days had'nt planned on putting the turbo on for a while was going to be the fmic first! but now once leak is sorted il be on the dyno see what i get the putting the inlet on.

Thanks to phillip and edd who helped out massively!