EVO B16g compressor mod

[Corman12345]

I have an EVOIII B16g and I was wondering if anyone has ground off the nipple that holds the compressor housing in place and rotated the housing CC 180 degrees to make it a downflow turbo. This way it would be easier to hook up to a fmic with short route piping. It would probably mess with the wastegate actuator. Has anyone done it before??

 

[mitsugsx95]

For the amount of time and effort that would take, it would probly be easier to just get a j pipe that goes in front for a side-to-side FMIC (depending what ic u have).

 

[doug]

I don't know about the EVO III turbo specifically, but it's been done a lot. It's called rotating the compressor housing. That's how places like SlowBoy make their "2G-16G" and similar units. Remember that you will also have to have some way of remounting the wastegate actuator, unless you're going external.

 

[miteclgst]

I did as mitsugsx95 suggested and made a J pipe to get on the driver side of the front to back engine support. The J pipe that comes with the 2g install kit would require the long route piping that goes from the passenger side across the intercooler and into the driver side endtank. I didn't want to remove the bumper support or positioning a pipe between the wastegate actuator, motor mount and fan shroud because that was too extensive for me and had too many risks. So instead I built this piece. The part consists of a 16G compressor housing flange and one of RRE's donuts (2" diameter pipe with a 2" radius) once the pipe straigtens out and shoots directly down b/w the two fans it flares out to 2.25" which is what I ran for the rest of the IC piping. It took a good while to fabricate due to the numerous bends and the tight confines of the engine bay, and though it might provide a little more resistance to flow then the normal J-pipe would I feel that reducing the need for extra IC bends and longer lengths of piping, along with being able to keep my bumper support, was a fair trade off. To tell you the truth I never even thought of rotating the compressor housing.

 

[Corman12345]

thanks for the ideas guys, i think i am going to do the j pipe thing miteclgst did because i really don't want to remount my wastegate and i definatley stick with short route piping