I am back home from getting fittings. It chili dog time. Then back to the garage.
I know where those Alpha boxes were headed!
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Dude where are your vegetables?...
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Dude where are your vegetables?...
They're probably veggie dogs...
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Dude where are your vegetables?...
Here I am!!!
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Do Barley, yeast and hops count as veggies?
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we would have to have a as here with a Hahn kit to mock up and build a jig
I know where there is one in Alabama that's just gonna be sitting around .....
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Here I am!!!
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we would have to have a as here with a Hahn kit to mock up and build a jig
I'm looking for an excuse to get back to Wisconsin and I have a Hahn. -
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Salt n Peppa
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I worked on the oil drain all flipping day. It is so close but it just won't fit. The Alpha system is just to low to get a hose from the bottom of it to the engine block.
You can turn the turbo at an offset but it is over the 15 degree maximum turn radius that precision recommends. I have jacked up the engine and removed the engine mount and ground the lip off and that didn't help. I drove 150 miles to get 1 size smaller AN fittings and hose just to try that. And finally I gave up and sent Henry a text that I need an oil pan with a bung welded in.
He will overnight me a pan and pre-made hose on Monday and I can slide it in on tuesday and hook up the oil return..
So I will continue tomorrow with all the rest of the turbo and tubing and intercooler. And hook my vacuum lines up.
Just wanted to let yall know what had me stumped today.
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This kinda sums it up. I am just using the blue hose to show approximation...
You can see that it would take some type of short radius 90degree fitting to get the turbo side high enough to (maybe) get over the engine mount.. which you can see but you can't get an idea how tall it is in the picture.
Now if you could kick the center bearing at a 45degree angle you could literally just put a straight piece of pipe in there and be done.
According to everything I have read you can't do that. It has to be within 10degrees of straight up and down...
Here is a picture that shows the blue hose. And here is a picture of the place I ground in the mount to help clear the Hahn setup... I ground that edge completely off today. And you can see my lines showing how much lower it is than where it's needs to be...
If you could turn the turbo center you could do somthing kinda like this.
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I worked on the oil drain all flipping day. It is so close but it just won't fit. The Alpha system is just to low to get a hose from the bottom of it to the engine block.
You can turn the turbo at an offset but it is over the 15 degree maximum turn radius that precision recommends. I have jacked up the engine and removed the engine mount and ground the lip off and that didn't help. I drove 150 miles to get 1 size smaller AN fittings and hose just to try that. And finally I gave up and sent Henry a text that I need an oil pan with a bung welded in.
He will overnight me a pan and pre-made hose on Monday and I can slide it in on tuesday and hook up the oil return..
So I will continue tomorrow with all the rest of the turbo and tubing and intercooler. And hook my vacuum lines up.
Just wanted to let yall know what had me stumped today.
I was concerned about that Robert, Hope i didn't jinx you by asking the question earlier. Hope it all works out so we can see that beast in Eureka Springs this week
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Do you not have the normal tap spots up high right next to the turbo?
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Do you not have the normal tap spots up high right next to the turbo?
I think your thinking about the feed line. It's perfect. This is the drain. Henry sends his kits with a return bung welded in the pan. The Hahn kit let's us use the factory engine block turbo oil return. We just have to drill and tap it.
This isn't a problem. It's just that Henry was hoping it could be done with the factory return spot that I have. But you can't. Not unless some company has special close ratio -10AN fittings.