Turbo install in progress. Pics day by day

[VladsGTS]

Well i finally started my install. Day one i brought my car into the school shop put it up on the left, and started taking junk off. well i unscrewed my exhaust manifold competely but i cant take it out. also took of my exhaust and valve cover. any1 got some tips on how to take the stupid header out.. i unbolted my passenger side engine mount as well as rear and front, but wasnt to sure if i need to unbolt the one on the drivers side. also how did you guys push ur engine to the front, or is it going to be alot easier if i unbolt the drivers side engine mount (on the tranny). only took one pic but wil take more each day.

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[Smaay]

take out the front and rear motor mounts, then you can rock the motor back and forth..good luck with the turbo install...by the way its much easier to reach back there with the valve cover off, so that was a good thing

[Hetts]

you might want to cover up the the exposed head there...

look at boosted2.0's install guide, its stickied at the top of the page. it will help you A LOT

[51EKA]

Drop the engine cradle(all the bars below the engine) i think it's called... by an inch or two. There's a tech article somewhere with them doing this. It was impossible to remove it otherwise because of rhd. And it'll just drop out of the gap.

[VladsGTS]

well since i started taking of the engine mounts i wont go dropping the crossmember its either one or the other, il go read boosteds install guide, thnx, il get updates tommarow, so i wont be alone on this install

[VladsGTS]

you might want to cover up the the exposed head there...

look at boosted2.0's install guide, its stickied at the top of the page. it will help you A LOT

cant seem to find the install guide.

[GT211]

: sigh : Come on now... Do some searching.... (I'm getting sick of searching for you)

http://www.newcelica.org/forums/showthread.php?t=185808

[VladsGTS]

im sry i love u. i looked at the top of the forced induction section and didnt see no sticky for that. im sry :(

[Hetts]

my fault, i thought they stickied it up there... they should. guide is hella useful... i hadnt done more than a catback exhaust before installing my turbo kit and never would have gotten close to finishing it without the guide.

[VladsGTS]

i read boosteds guide, and he shows removing the axle and crossmember, but i went the other route that c2 suggests by removing the mounts and doing it from the top, so if anybody did it this route, tips would be appreciated.

[GT211]

Look at the C2power install guide. Here is the link once again...

http://www.c2power.com/search/node/Install+Guide

[VladsGTS]

yea thats wat i was going by , thnx anyways

[Boosted2.0]

I think they got rid of the sticky on the SF install guide because its linked in the Turbo FAQ sticky down at the bottom.

Anyways the header will come out the back through the hole where the midpipe is if you take off both heat shields and rotate it so the flange side faces the drivers side of the car

[VladsGTS]

ok im at school trying to take the stupid header out, and i cant seem to get it.i tried takin it out from where u said boosted but its not workin

[VladsGTS]

nvm i just got it out. now i need to put the turbo header in. gota find out if i should bolt it up then put the turbo on or put it on then try to fit it in there

[VladsGTS]

Day 2: Finally got the stupid header out (through the top), it somehow just popped out right when i was gona give up on the whole thing. I got the manifold in and bolted up, also bolted the turbo to manifold.

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[VladsGTS]

and i know i forgot one of the bolts on the turbo, i just bought a spare one it wil go on tommarow

[Jesse IL]

There is a whole writeup in Performance Mods from within the last week about how to remove the header :faint:

Dude you really need to try harder at that search function.

[VladsGTS]

its ok i got it out. it would probably take me longer to search then to take it out without knowing anything.

[youngxlos]

not to bash you or anything but if you cant take out a header i dont think you should be installing anything like a turbo

[venomceli]

^ gotta learn somehow :)

[VladsGTS]

not to bash you or anything but if you cant take out a header i dont think you should be installing anything like a turbo

well looks to me like you are... if u ask me takin out the header is the hardest part to the install. I installed a ported header and changed my flywheel/clutch. i think i know wat im doing. reason it was easier to instal ported header is cuz i had my axles out.

[Boosted2.0]

Next time around I reccomend using my method from the SF install guide - its way easy and lets you put the manifold, turbo and DP on as an assembly which means you can tighten all those whorish hard to get to turbo and DP bolts off the car.

[Hetts]

Next time around I reccomend using my method from the SF install guide - its way easy and lets you put the manifold, turbo and DP on as an assembly which means you can tighten all those whorish hard to get to turbo and DP bolts off the car.


i agree, i cant even imagine doing it the other way... connecting the turbo to the manifold off of the car is a bitch in itself, i can only imagine getting to everything on the car and having it be done well enough so there are no leaks.

And i thought i had already posted this, but is your car lowered? cause your oil pan looks like its had some bad contact with the ground. I would just make sure that your oil lines do NOT run anywhere underneath your new oil pan, because if your oil feed line would get pinched between the pan and the ground and get ripped off, your motor will be in a world of hurt. goodluck on the rest of the install

[Jesse IL]

its ok i got it out. it would probably take me longer to search then to take it out without knowing anything.

Well think about it like this:

If people like Boosted2.0 and myself spend our free time to write these things up, we expect people to use them. If you can't be bothered to search for them, why should we be bothered to re-answer a question for you?

[VladsGTS]

yea my car is lowered, il make sure oil line isnt under it. and i appreciate the write ups Jesse, and i read all of them.

[VladsGTS]

quick question, the vaccume hose that goes from the throttle to the wastegate is connected to the vacume on the wastegate right? cuz i have an external wastegate, and there is 2 connections on it, Boost and Vacuume. im guessing vacumme part goes to the throttle and boost is for boost controller correct? il go search some more, but any1 can feel free to help me out :)

[Boosted2.0]

Thats a Toyota OEM style wastegate actuator. If you blow through the boost line air comes back out the vacuum one right?

If so hook the boost one stright to the take-off on the turbo compressor housiing and the vacuum one will go to the boost controller. The boost controller will bleed that boost back off to atmosphere or seal it in to regulate wastegate position.

[VladsGTS]

pics wil be up tommarow from progress i did wed and thursday. and i have no place to hook up vaccum lines on my turbo, if thats what your saying Boosted2.0

[VladsGTS]

pic will be up tonight, im wiring the emanage and i wired up all the wires that it said on c2 power but i have 3 wires left that i didnt use, am i supposed to have those left over?

[Oo DaRk StAr oO]

pic will be up tonight, im wiring the emanage and i wired up all the wires that it said on c2 power but i have 3 wires left that i didnt use, am i supposed to have those left over?

I moved them into the injector harness.

[SleeprGT]

Do yourself a favor, once you rock the engine forward and get the header off, ZIP TIE THE POWER STEERING FLUID LINE, AWAY FROM THE DOWNPIPE. I also have 87 pictures of my GT turbo install. if you need any pics email me.

[VladsGTS]

here il post pics up of my car, i finished like 3 days ago actually, and guess wat SleeperGT, i was going on the highway like 30 min drive to get something welded and my damn powersteering fluid went al over the highway. any ideas on how to get it fixed, i still didnt look exactly where it burned through. if only you would have told me few days later to do that , i feel so stupid for not doing it AHHH IM PISSED!!!!!

[VladsGTS]

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[J5ISALIVE]

hmm....looks awesome man. Congrats on the install. The only thing i would change is i would change all those worm-drive clamps on the intercooler piping to some nicer T-bar clamps.

Congrats on the install. :)

[VladsGTS]

yea im gettin some tbolt clams asap, those were kinda temporary

[TRD GT-S]

looks awesome :) what kit is that?

[VladsGTS]

its a cutome kit, t3/t4, c2 power piping, emanage ems, sfp manifold. btw i like ur rims :)

[TRD GT-S]

its a cutome kit, t3/t4, c2 power piping, emanage ems, sfp manifold. btw i like ur rims :)


haha yeah, i saw a pic of your car up top with the ggames..we're almost twins.

[SleeprGT]

well when GT-s skid and i took his car for a test drive we forgot to zip the line down to hehehe. Its an easy thing to forget. Luckily he lived by a place that makes hydrolic hoses and repairs them. they fixed his hose for 28 bucks. And after properly installing power steering fluid (takes a lil bit) we were back on the road.

[VladsGTS]

i wonder where i can go to get it repaired. you know any places?? like big names that might be in my area to

[Boosted2.0]

Just call around to some industrial equipment companies that do hydraulic systems repairs, or repairs on forklifts or bobcats or whatnot.

[Boosted2.0]

Oh - and i think its the high pressure hose that normally gets burnt through. Still a good thing you dodn't burn it down though.

Did you get that wastegate sorted out OK?

[VladsGTS]

yea its workin, the spring in there is like 4psi. i gota make a wastegate downpipe, because it just opens up and pours out behind the valve cover.

[SleeprGT]

if you can't get it repaired mail it to me i will take it to get repaired for ya. you must pay expenses.

the guy who repared gt-s kids just happens to own a rinky dink store on the side of the road in the middle of effing no where. Literally just a sign saying hydraulic hose line repair, or custom lines made.

talk about melting down the hose in the right place.

[VladsGTS]

alright cool, i didnt have any time to look at it yet, can u just disconnect the hose from both side? does it unscrew or wat?

[Hetts]

4 psi? who puts a 4 psi spring on a wastegate? Id check your boost signal to make sure you are getting the right boost reading of where the wastegate is opening... just doesnt make sense to me, ive never heard of a spring less than 6 psi.

[SleeprGT]

yah sounds like a boost leak haha ringa bell Hetts, like on dyno day at Slowboys

[VladsGTS]

hmm i might have a boost leak. im pretty sure the gauge is hooked up alright. gota replace the hose clamps with some tbolt clamps then see. i have a turbonetics wastegate, does any1 know the springs on those, or can they be different?

[Boosted2.0]

hmm i might have a boost leak. im pretty sure the gauge is hooked up alright. gota replace the hose clamps with some tbolt clamps then see. i have a turbonetics wastegate, does any1 know the springs on those, or can they be different?

Pretty sure you can get different ones but the best way is to call them- tell them what wastegate you have and what boost you want and see if they will sell you the spring.

[Black_TRD]

4 psi? who puts a 4 psi spring on a wastegate? Id check your boost signal to make sure you are getting the right boost reading of where the wastegate is opening... just doesnt make sense to me, ive never heard of a spring less than 6 psi.


lol with a Tial you can set it even to 2.9 psi on a 44m or larger and 3.6 on the smaller valves including the 38mm :chuckles:

BTW have you adjusted the screw on top?

[robare99]

What are tbar clamps? any pics I tried google image but no go.

[VladsGTS]

no havnt tried the screw on top (if there is one) why wats it do if i have it?


tbolt clamps -

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2-2-75-SS-T-Bolt-Clamps-Tbolt-Band-Silicone-2-3-4_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33742QQitemZ804433085 7QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

[VladsGTS]

is this where the power steering line usually gets burned. maybe i can ask the dealer for a replacement line. http://www.newcelica.org/photopost/data/500/17793afdafadf-med.JPG

[Black_TRD]

no havnt tried the screw on top (if there is one) why wats it do if i have it?


tbolt clamps -

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2-2-75-SS-T-Bolt-Clamps-Tbolt-Band-Silicone-2-3-4_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33742QQitemZ804433085 7QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

loosen the nut and with an allen tighten the screw down, then tighten the nut, look at how much boost repeat to the desired boost setting if that is not enougth change the spring or get a boost controller :chuckles:

[VladsGTS]

yea i got a boost controller, its al good, just didnt know u can change boost on the wastegate itself. thnx. and i dont think i have a boost leak , i guess i just had a very weak spring that was for like 4psi, i adjusted boost controller and its at 6 now , and it holds pretty well, wouldnt it not hold pressure if there was a leak?

[Hetts]

it would still hold pressure, it would just take a lot longer for the turbo to spool. You'd probably know it if you had a boost leak.

[SleeprGT]

The Ten seconds that saves such a head ache :)

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ZIP TIE HERE!

[VladsGTS]

lol its to late, and i gota find a way to FIX it cuz replacing it is like 250$

[youngxlos]

congrats. i guess i miss judge you early in the thread, great job on the install. looks ****ing awsome..... love the first pix.

[VladsGTS]

thnx man thnx.