turbo manifold spacer?

[WickedBlk95GSX]

my t3/t4 is hitting the block and i heard that you can use a spacer to make it clear. if anyone knows where i can get one or point me in the right direction that would be awesome. thanks

 

[PIMking]

Is it hitting the block or the water pipe?

some people beat the pipe in a bit for clearence.

 

[WickedBlk95GSX]

morely the pipe but i would prefer not to beat anything in.

 

[jdunbar10]

yoour talking about a adapter flange to the head correct? go to any machine shop bring in your stock mani and get them to cut you a flange, have it welded onto the manifold at worste you will have to change out the studs to the head and depending how thick you need it you might have some clearence issues with the power steering pump and may have to remove it before the install

 

[Hubbard 0]

There are a few of the regular sites that sell just the head flange, you can use this as your spacer.

You will run into a few items that need to be taken care of at the same time. You'll need longer studs, which means you run the risk of breaking the ones that are in there now. You'll also need 2 exhaust manifold gaskets, which means one more place for leaks.

If all that is fine by you, go for it. However, taking a hammer to the waterpipe is a simpler solution that won't hurt your cooling system and should give you the clearance needed.

 

[WickedBlk95GSX]

k well thanks guys, i think im going to beat the water pipe in.

 

[rush2252]

Think of it more as "denting"

 

[PIMking]

yeah dont crush it to were its closed just enough for the turbo to fit.

doing something like this is normal when you try to stuff a small block into an s-10 so the firewall lets you get some aggression out

 

[WickedBlk95GSX]

so i'm just having a machine shop make my old manifold into a spacer so everything will clear nicely. thanks for all the help guys