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hey guys just would like some help on where this pipe came from? the picture is how i brought the car, and its just has a peice of hose on it with a screw blocking it??

it is an oil pipe, and leaks everywhere??

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hey guys just would like some help on where this pipe came from? the picture is how i brought the car, and its just has a peice of hose on it with a screw blocking it??

it is an oil pipe, and leaks everywhere??

Its obvious this is a aftermarket turbo that you have on this car...

The factory baby turbo is both WATER & OIL cooled as it also requires water as a cooling source being a ball bearing (but ceramic turbine wheeled) AND as from the photos you have supplied, the turbo that is now on there is only oil cooled (most probably a thrust bearing type that only requires oil). I can only assume that its the water/coolant line being blocked off as its not being used.

The factory turbo has 4 lines attached to it, OIL IN, OIL OUT, WATER IN, WATER OUT.

The current turbo has two lines : OIL IN & OIL OUT.

DO THIS : let the car cool down, un-do the block-off nut at the end of that hose and see what comes out of it, if its water or coolant, then its sweet (even tho it should really be connected back up to the other water hose for a continuous flow) BUT if its oil, then it's not right !!

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