18G - install need help - anyone creative?

[BrnOutKing]

Ok I'm installing a Greaddy 18G on a friends car.

Here's the problem.... he bought it used and he didn't recieve all the parts.

What I'm missing.... - oil return line adaptor that attaches to the oil pan.

What we were thinking (since he's got a dyno session) on wendsay.
is - we were going to cut the stock pipe that's attache's to the oil pan. and then just connect the hose to that and then clamp it down.
-So my question is do you think it would hold till he gets the real piece?

2nd problem - the Braided Oil line
happens that the 18G doesn't use coolant to cool it down it just runs oil.
and the line that we have has 2 female end's and it looks like one end was supposed to be a male end.

what we don't understand is that this line came off a 99GS-T
an is being installed on a 97 GS-T.....

there shouldn't be any difference right?

so am I missing another piece? - one end of the line attaches' to the turbo (goes right on) the other is supposed to go right next to the oil filter. but needs to be a male end (or at least that's what it looks like)

My HRC S20G has this line and it's a female / male line?


what do you guys think? can I just buy some threaded pip and then screw one end into the female end of the oil line and the other to the female part of the oil filter? Will it hold?

-Hope that makes sense. - right back with what you think. or any idea's.
or if you need clarification.

thanks
Brian

 

[SMI]

Brian - this is 1G

if your still having problems I can come over sometime later this week to help out.

oil return adaptor? you mean the flange? or... you might just have to make a new one. I suppose you cant look at Nash's car since it isnt there anymore...

With the clamp thing, you know all that smoke that comes off my downpipe? its from a small hole in the oil return pipe, i dont think that will hold very well.


Anyways gimmie a call if you read this or I will give you a call.

Andy

 

[BrnOutKing]

Andy - what's up looks like more MN - DSMRS are joining this forum.

Hey definetely I'll call you sometime this week.

Hey you going to back to the 50's weekend this weekend?

I think we are planning on going there early like 6pm.

Last year I'd say there were some 2000 cars and about 3-4000 people.

And that's just at midway not including the state fair grounds.

anyways..... Kind of sucks with Jon's car..... the adapter piece was supposed to come off Andy's car.

Andy's got all the peice's we need but we can't get a hold of him to have him call his uncle so we can go down and get the parts we need off his car. I know he's busy.....which is why Jon just wants him to call his uncle and let him know we are coming... that way Andy doesn't have to do anything.

-Brian

 

[ProjectGSX]

Are you using the manifold spacer to mount the turbo? You should be able to ditch the manifold spacer, use stock turbo bolts, and then the stock oil return line should fit. The reason it doesn't fit is because with the spacer, the turbo sits a half inch lower than normal.

If that doesn't work, your idea for cutting the stock pipe will work too. That is how my set up currently is. Also, if you don't want to cut the stock pipe, HRC sells all the parts you need for this.

http://www.hahnracecraft.com/hahn/parts/install.htm

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Here is a pic of my oil return line. I cut it, used fuel line to extend it and then used RTV on the inside, hose clamps on the outside. There are two things to worry about. First, do not clamp it too tight, you will crush the pipe. Second, use quality high temp hose. My GF's car came with an 18G on it, and the return pipe was done in this manner. The hose part was hard and brittle and actually shattered at one point.

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[BrnOutKing]

Your way of cutting it is much better then I was planning on doing.

I was going to cut it at th oil pan side..... but cutting it closer to the turbo looks stonger and better!...

I still have the issue with the Oil line from the area by the filter?

I need to find and adapter near for that.

But We dont' have the spacer that goes from the exhaust manifold to motor side...(my HRC has that but the 18G doesn't) if your talking about the gasket that greddy has you put between the exhaust manifold and the turbo - It's a wider opening then the stock one so it will flow more...

I just found out that the exhaust side to manifold on my HRC S20G is bigger then the stock gasket so I'm actually running 13% inefficiany on the exhaust side....)

 

[ProjectGSX]

Originally posted by BrnOutKing
I still have the issue with the Oil line from the area by the filter?

I need to find and adapter near for that.

You need to find out what size hose you have. It is probably -3AN. RRE sells a SS oil line and it comes with a 90 degree fitting that threads into the filter housing. That is what you need. You could take the hose to local industrial supply stores and see if someone has one in stock. Call RRE and ask what the thread is for the oil filter housing side.

Originally posted by BrnOutKing
But We dont' have the spacer that goes from the exhaust manifold to motor side...(my HRC has that but the 18G doesn't) if your talking about the gasket that greddy has you put between the exhaust manifold and the turbo - It's a wider opening then the stock one so it will flow more...

I'm not talking about a gasket. I am talking about a 1/2" thick piece of steel. GReddy includes it in the kit to lower the turbo into the engine bay so you do not have to dent the water pipe to make it fit.

 

[BrnOutKing]

Hey thanks for your help.

Got the Oil Return line done and figured out how to get the Oil line off the Oil filter..... (heat gun) - just happened 2 of my other friends decided to swap turbo's and they ran into the same problem.

They ended up taking a torch to that Oil filter part that wouldn't come off and it broke it loose once it warmed up.

He then passed on the info to me and All I had was a heat gun..... and after 3 minutes of heating up the screw it came loose.

-brian