biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 18/03/22 12:50 AM Author Share Posted 18/03/22 12:50 AM Yea nah I think I'd rather learn how to do it myself, I don't want to send it over east just to get recalibrated 🤣 The fact someone has made a PC program to do it shows that's its possible to do, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,041 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 18/03/22 12:52 AM Share Posted 18/03/22 12:52 AM yeah, reach out and see if he'll do FG and then he can get people to pay for the software by licensing it out to get it all done. same same but in-situ haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 25/03/22 10:29 AM Author Share Posted 25/03/22 10:29 AM What a hectic week its been! Finally picked up a turbo this week! Got a pulsar 3582 with a screamer kit. The one my brother welded was just slightly off at was colliding stuff. No drama though, he's going to fix it up! This turbo opportunity came about fast, and made sense to grab it with the screamer kit now, we'll sell the housing once he's back from site and back to regular working schedules so he can weld it up again. Really nice bit of kit! Here's some shots from the day I picked it up, left was taken in the morning, right was taken at night after I'd test fitted it into the car Fast forward to this arvo, turbo is in! Bolted up nice and tight to the manifold but I will probably check the bolts again after its done a heat cycle. Coolant drain and turbo drain hooked up (mostly). Ordered the last few things I need to finish it up from sparesbox, delivery will take a while sadly. Got a bunch of fittings to sort out the boost line to the wg, a new coolant tank, and a drive belt. I do need a silicone elbow for the intake though, and one that goes from the turbo to the IC pipe. I'm sure there was one from the intune kit so it may be at my parents somewhere. Getting close to starting it up again and I'm so keen! Got a while to go to before it goes to MT for the rest of the stuff though, need to save money for that 🤣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,041 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 25/03/22 10:35 AM Share Posted 25/03/22 10:35 AM just had to do the bolts differently to get it to fit, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 25/03/22 10:56 AM Author Share Posted 25/03/22 10:56 AM It was a MASSIVE c*nt to get back in. When I removed the baby turbo, I took the manifold and turbo off together. So logically did the same this time - turbo onto manifold then combo into the car. Trouble was the studs are just a hair too long and the combo wouldn't fit. Ended up having to remove some studs to get it to fit in. Was a pain but got there in the end Not keen to have to tighten it all again when the bolts eventually come loose... I don't wanna go through all this crap again hahahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,041 Member For: 16y 8m 8d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 25/03/22 10:59 AM Share Posted 25/03/22 10:59 AM yeah, doing work the 2nd time is a real pain, but sometimes it's necessary unless you know the specific order of operations that'll get it done properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 15,972 Member For: 9y 10m 19d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 25/03/22 11:03 AM Share Posted 25/03/22 11:03 AM You can do up studs a sh*t load tighter than bolts for the manifold. They won't come loose again. You know what's worse than manifold studs that are a bee's dick too long? Farken dump studs that make it impossible to remove the dump without taking the turbo off. Whoever decided to market dump studs as a good thing needs a paddlin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 25/03/22 11:09 AM Author Share Posted 25/03/22 11:09 AM 6 minutes ago, Puffwagon said: You can do up studs a sh*t load tighter than bolts for the manifold. They won't come loose again. I'm waiting for the loctite to settle before I go reefing on the things.. that's how I stripped it in the first place 🤣🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 15,972 Member For: 9y 10m 19d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 25/03/22 11:17 AM Share Posted 25/03/22 11:17 AM Not the end of the world mate. I chuck a bolt in the front most manifold hole, ain't nobody got time for annoying studs lol. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biddie_fiddler [IMPULSIV3] Donating Members 1,374 Member For: 5y 8m 19d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 27/03/22 02:55 AM Author Share Posted 27/03/22 02:55 AM Yet another question, been putting the car back together, put the water feed line on the turbo and it has that support point on the top left timing cover bolt.... This bolt doesn't seem to be grabbing very well and I'm scared it's stripped, or close to it. Putting the bolt to the side to line it up there seems like there absolutely fk all thread actually grabbing. Wonder if the thickness of the support bracket for the coolant line was not considered when they chose the bolt size... In any case, I'm wondering if anyone knows the thread size and pitch of these top bolts? Might look into getting some slightly longer versions. The top left hole has threads all the way through so there's plenty thread there for a longer bolt to grab. For reference, it's the bolts that have the torx heads, not sure if all the timing cover bolts have torx heads too though... 🤣 Cheers all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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