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Don Dada

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Just want to know what you guys do with the oil drain pipe for the front turbo, as it falls directly in line with one of the comp housing bolts, fowling on it and causing the flange not to sit properly.

I was thinking maybe using a 12mm head bolt or smaller and grind a bit off it, and also grind piece of the clamp?

That pipe looks impossible to bend without screwing it up.

-1 / -9 Garretts btw.

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Just did -9's on mine and we ran in to the same problem.

You can either go out and get a pair of drains like what GCG sell: http://www.gcg.com.au/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=209&category_id=131&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=101

Or just bend the pipe slightly (and slowly), which is the option we chose: Mounted the flange the best we could then used a breaker bar handle down the hole to lever it away from the bolt head, worked well - just bent it a little, checked it, bent a bit more, checked it, etc.

Another thing to double check is the compressor housings are rotated around in the correct position, because mine was slightly out, ie: rotated a bit too much clockwise. This didn't become apparent until I went to install the 'twin turbo' pipe and the rear turbo outlet flange didn't mate up, so had to get a longer silicone hose from the rear turbo to the TT pipe.

So I advise just quickly comparing them with the ones you pulled off and adjust if necessary.

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You guys got some balls to mount it on the turbo and try to bend it on there!! :ph34r:

I think I'll give it a try though, but I'll drill two holes in a piece of iron or something and mount it on that to be safe.

And yea...I spent a while trying to get them lined up properly so I wont have any issues like you mentioned. But thanks for that, as I feel I would trial fit the pipes before attaching all the other stuff.

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Forgot?! Shouldn't have needed to!

"bolt on upgrade" they said, - damn you Garrett, lol.

Bolt on???....Ha! I removed the comp housing to even get the hard lines on without bending them!

For some reason too I always thought the holes on the oil drain had to be elongated as well. I guess that was maybe for -5/-10, but I'm glad I didnt have to do that too.

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