isnt there a certain level of redundancy doing both an hla and the oil pan upgrade? or is the oil pan mod more for odd cornering g's or osmething

The oil pan upgrade keeps oil accessible during hard cornering and acceleration.

Hey guys, quick question. This sticky is very informative and I have learned alot from reading through each post. Now, my question...what are normal parameters for oil pressure at idle, cruising, and wot. I have just installed my fp red w/ oil feed from the pan and an AEM pressure guage w/ ams remote line. The car idles at around 16psi warm, and around 60-70psi at cruise, havent hit wot yet, breaking the turbo in gently. Are these numbers normal? Thanks in advance

You don't break in a turbo. It just goes. At Idle the turbo is barely spinning and at WOT the turbo has max oil pressure.

I understand that a turbo isnt spinning at a high speed at idle and is at max pressure and rpms at wot. My question is what are typical oil pressures at these 3 different engine speeds. As far as breaking the turbo in, is there no mileage recommendation before I really get on it?

Turbo just goes man, no such thing as turbo break in. Search for Base Oil pressure.

Just to verify, someone I talked to at FP said the same thing - there's no turbo break-in. I thought it'd be good for the metal to go through some heat cycles but I guess it is all set from the get-go

They are all tested at FP at extreme temps before they are sent out. If you have a JB or a BB just make sure it has a proper oil supply. That's it.

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That is great advice! especially since I'm putting on a new FP turbo right now!

yeah, this was very good info/advice. deffinitely worth the read

nice

Great info in here I'm new to evos and have been looking to see what mods I want to do, on my Subaru I had a FP HTA68 and it was awesome. They few times I've had to get ahold of FP the had great customer service and easy to deal with my next turbo will be an FP as well

If its possible to answer this question, but GENERALLY speaking, at what boost level would FP consider each of their turbos beyond their "safe" zone where he states about Turbo RPMs and EGT? what would FP recommend for a psi limit that would put you under the max turbo RPMS and EGT ratings, on say a Green,Red, and black on a track car that will see 20 min sessions?

I know there are many variables such as tuning, but lets assume a mild tune. If EGT are a big issue, would a track car benefit from a larger turbo, like say a GT30 over a stock frame, to keep EGT down?

Very good info here.