About to start my first turbo build... b16a

**Lukezen27** · 04-09-2009 08:22 AM

Originally Posted by MacDiZZle

sorry to drag this thread on and on but the banjo bolt for the oil feed that i got with the turbo kit is too long... can anyone give me the size bolt i need as well as the restrictor hole size... it looks about 3mm atm but i remember reading that you need like 1.5 can anyone confirm?

You need 1mm or 0.8mm mate

Ditch the banjo bolt all togetter, I had so many porblems installing mine!!!!

You need a normal right angle scew bolt with the Gattet size thread with a 0.8mm resctictor pushed inside..

I've got a 1mm and I'm gottting a bit of oil in my intercooler piping still

**MacDiZZle** · 04-09-2009 08:52 AM

cheers luke!

**B16** · 04-09-2009 09:27 AM

I'm running a 1mm restrictor same as Luke there, and I'm not getting any oil through so you should be fine (being a brand new turbo and all). Can't remember the place's name that we got ours from in Syd, luke could point you in the right direction (they're hard to find!) It was only like a buck.

If you want to try somewhere local give Jessy a call at MTQ Engine Systems a call in Acacia Ridge on 07 3723 4400, he's helped me out with Garrett spares and may well have restrictors.

**MacDiZZle** · 04-09-2009 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by B16

I'm running a 1mm restrictor same as Luke there, and I'm not getting any oil through so you should be fine (being a brand new turbo and all). Can't remember the place's name that we got ours from in Syd, luke could point you in the right direction (they're hard to find!) It was only like a buck.

If you want to try somewhere local give Jessy a call at MTQ Engine Systems a call in Acacia Ridge on 07 3723 4400, he's helped me out with Garrett spares and may well have restrictors.

haha yer thats where im going to go. thats where i got my turbo from lol top blokes hey!

**Lukezen27** · 04-09-2009 12:06 PM

My oil return line is to small -8 but I need -10

So

1mm restrictor + -10 return

Motorsports in Seven Hills is where Matty and I got our 1mm restrictors from

**mr180sx** · 08-09-2009 09:42 AM

Hey just offtopic. I think you bought my brothers old. Is it brown/red metallic, with j's racing front lip, Ef frontend conversion, with b16a2 and hydro conversion. If it is, hows the car treating you.

I think you bought the car from the guy we sold it too, he lived in forest lake!

We regret selling the car, had big plans for it too!

Its good to see that its still around!

**MacDiZZle** · 08-09-2009 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by mr180sx

Hey just offtopic. I think you bought my brothers old. Is it brown/red metallic, with j's racing front lip, Ef frontend conversion, with b16a2 and hydro conversion. If it is, hows the car treating you.

I think you bought the car from the guy we sold it too, he lived in forest lake!

We regret selling the car, had big plans for it too!

Its good to see that its still around!

Haha yep thats the one! lol please tell me you didnt get it to the condition it was when i bought it lol its been so much trouble! ive thought so many times about just buying a clean low kms ed6 and swapping it all over... but im yet to find a clean ed6

I paid almost nothing for it but and the engine is in good nick so i cant really complain.

at least ive learnt allot through things breaking

wouldnt suppose you remember how many kms were on the motor when you swapped it? compression is still good now so it cant have been that many.

*edit* it was auto too! you went hard out hey!

**mr180sx** · 08-09-2009 10:27 AM

We bought the car already converted with the b16 and hydraulic conversion done already. The guy that originally owned it got the conversion done at Quantum Performance and cost him almost 4k.

We only put coilovers on it, EF front and J's racing lip on it. What problems did you run into.

How much did you end up paying for her, because we sold it to the guy for 4k

Not sure how many km's the motor has, but never had any problems with it. Do you still have the external pump setup (gravity feed)? Because that was one thing we were going to change!

Originally Posted by MacDiZZle

Haha yep thats the one! lol please tell me you didnt get it to the condition it was when i bought it lol its been so much trouble! ive thought so many times about just buying a clean low kms ed6 and swapping it all over... but im yet to find a clean ed6

I paid almost nothing for it but and the engine is in good nick so i cant really complain.

at least ive learnt allot through things breaking

wouldnt suppose you remember how many kms were on the motor when you swapped it? compression is still good now so it cant have been that many.

*edit* it was auto too! you went hard out hey!

**MacDiZZle** · 08-09-2009 12:47 PM

yer i bought it for 4k too lol damn i wish i had have talked him down more now! i thought it was a steal considering a halfcut cost almost that on its own. haha yer the pump was the first thing i fixed up... got a pickup pump going to a surge tank and then to a hipressure pump.

just heaps of little things hey like dodgy wiring and cv's and the alternator bracket bolt was like snapped off in the block lol and the paint job has all runs in it, leaking seals and broken alternator tensioner lots of annoying things! it was just a pretty messy/dirty car. still is but im getting there

**FastFwd** · 08-09-2009 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by MacDiZZle

yer i bought it for 4k too lol damn i wish i had have talked him down more now! i thought it was a steal considering a halfcut cost almost that on its own. haha yer the pump was the first thing i fixed up... got a pickup pump going to a surge tank and then to a hipressure pump.

just heaps of little things hey like dodgy wiring and cv's and the alternator bracket bolt was like snapped off in the block lol and the paint job has all runs in it, leaking seals and broken alternator tensioner lots of annoying things! it was just a pretty messy/dirty car. still is but im getting there

just a thought bro...

why dont you spend a bit of money cleaning it up instead of turbo? New paint, fix all those little issues etc.