Hi all,

I am looking at an old evo 8 for sale and the turbo oil line is slightly dented and rusting. The rest of the car is worth the price being asked.
I will post pic below. FYI I am blowing everything I have on this car and I would hate for it to sit in the shop and cost me more than it does. Also, it runs great...the turbo spools up at 3K.

Can someone who knows about this tell me whether or not I will need a new turbo anytime soon, or if the oil line itself can be replaced CHEAPLY (i hope)?
By being dented is the oil line being choked...could i get more power out of this system???

THX!

 

One thing for sure is you do not want to starve oil. Just go ahead and buy a new oil line on here. Stock turbos are journal bearing and according to paperwork from forced performance who got it from mitsubishi, the fp red failures were from not enough oil pressure into the journal bearing, so Forced performance developed an oil feed line kit from the oil filter.