custom turbo project help
but i thought that it had a the tdo5h flange. that sucks.here is the one i got It didn't say anything about evo GT or anything so i think it might not be ****, but we'll see lol. I have a question about it though. it says that it is tdo5d? I've looked all over and can't find anything about that. I'm assuming it's a typo or if not do you know the difference between the -d and -h?
I would be worried if it wasn't an Evo 3 GT or the real MHI Evo III....lol, at least the Evo 3 GT has been used on RRM kits, and some DSM guys i know have run it with success...
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hoping to reproduce their results :fingers crossed:
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just got the turbo in the mail today. looks awesome. feels really good. its brand new and came with all the oil lines and stuff. and banjo bolts and everything. pretty good deal. Ill put some pics up in a little bit
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I had to go with a different manifold too now since the first one had the huge twin scroll turbo flange. so I'm still waiting on that. The 4g69 flange should be here in the next few days and the manifold not long after. Now i just need to figure out where i am going to feed coolant and oil from. :X
at least I have something to do in the mean time
I bought the gsx calipers and pads and am going to swap em out. I've had the brackets sitting around for like a year and one caliper for a while. just finally getting around to finishing it lol.
I know I saw you (cranswick) were talking about it on the other thread, did you do the swap or were you just checking it out? wondering because I wanted to make sure there was someone who did it that i could troubleshoot with if something goes wrong.
at least I have something to do in the mean time
I bought the gsx calipers and pads and am going to swap em out. I've had the brackets sitting around for like a year and one caliper for a while. just finally getting around to finishing it lol.I know I saw you (cranswick) were talking about it on the other thread, did you do the swap or were you just checking it out? wondering because I wanted to make sure there was someone who did it that i could troubleshoot with if something goes wrong.
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argh, the flange i ordered was suppsoed to be delivered today but apparently the USPS has now decided that my door is no longer a "deliverable address"
looks like its gonna be a little longer on that... :\
looks like its gonna be a little longer on that... :\
Gonna feed/return my turbo from heater core. But also thinking about where upper hose connects to motor getting a fitting tig welded on the bottom of that piece. Using T's at heater cire would be easiet though IMO
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So I got the flange today..
What happened was that they forgot to put my house number on the address and my normal mail man was sick or something so it was a new person. My regular guy was back today so he dropped it off for me. but it turns out that Columbia River Mandrel (the company i bought it from) had the template labled wrong so the one I got was for what looks to be a 4g63, but either way it was wrong. So they're remaking it and sending it out again. Hope it works better this time around lol.
on a side note. I ordered the ACT HDSS clutch kit the other day and that just came in. I'm thinking I might try and put it in on sunday. but I'm going to keep reading around and see if it's something I can do by myself in one day. from what the instructions that I saw on another forum it looks pretty straight forward, but I thought that about everything else and nothing has been as easy as they seemed.
another side note lol, I went to put on the 2 piston calipers today and got everything all taken off and ready to switch out and i pull out the new caliper and it didnt have the little rubber bushing things or the bolts or any of the hardware in the package with it. I went back to the store to exchange and they only keep one of those in stock at a time and needed to special order it. maybe tomorrow. :\
bad news and good news.
What happened was that they forgot to put my house number on the address and my normal mail man was sick or something so it was a new person. My regular guy was back today so he dropped it off for me. but it turns out that Columbia River Mandrel (the company i bought it from) had the template labled wrong so the one I got was for what looks to be a 4g63, but either way it was wrong. So they're remaking it and sending it out again. Hope it works better this time around lol.
on a side note. I ordered the ACT HDSS clutch kit the other day and that just came in. I'm thinking I might try and put it in on sunday. but I'm going to keep reading around and see if it's something I can do by myself in one day. from what the instructions that I saw on another forum it looks pretty straight forward, but I thought that about everything else and nothing has been as easy as they seemed.
another side note lol, I went to put on the 2 piston calipers today and got everything all taken off and ready to switch out and i pull out the new caliper and it didnt have the little rubber bushing things or the bolts or any of the hardware in the package with it. I went back to the store to exchange and they only keep one of those in stock at a time and needed to special order it. maybe tomorrow. :\
bad news and good news.
Hang in there. And thank you for sharing your progress even when things don't go perfectly. You're not alone, most car projects have their frustrating weird twists...
I'm very curious about what you think of the performance of the new calipers once they're installed.
I'm very curious about what you think of the performance of the new calipers once they're installed.