Thread: Braided oil lines

protech

I need 4"-6". The barb fitting literally is being blocked by the compressor inlet. In order for me to drain right now, the hose is actually looped. I'll try to describe it: Down at a 60* angle towards the crossmember, a 70* bend that runs along the crossmember towards the back of the motor, then another 50* bend up and to the left right at the front of the block, and then another 45* bend to plumb into the CHRA. It's about 9" of rubber hose, and AWFUL for the turbo. Imagine all that backfeed for the turbo, instead of being properly drained off?

Instead, a 90* fitting clocked towards the crank pulley and around 4"-6" of stainless line flexible enough to the CHRA would be perfect.

The feed line is also so close to the oil dip tube that you would need to remove the manifold and turbo in order to get to the feed line to torque it down. (I already torqued it down a bit, but it still leaks. I'm not going to strip out the block just trying to put a damn banjo bolt in that doesn't leak)

Almost forgot I had these pictures, don't know how well they'd explain what I'm talking about, though:





If you see in the second picture, there isn't really even enough room to put an HKS filter on the inlet of the turbo. That's how close/tight everything is. I have to run mesh right now to protect the blades, and I need to come up with a very wierd/tight bend intake pipe so as to relocate the filter placement somewhere else.

liking the set up tek, so the way you have the turbo clocked in the second picture, we're looking directly at the return aren't we? I'm not familiar with that turbine. Why can't you just run it directly off of the turbine and loop down around the turbo to the block? Just run a hose and wrap it with some 700* heat wrap. Your only other option would be to get a bigger hose with like a -12an fitting or something and make a flange to fit it to the turbo. Then you'd have to either do some rigging to go from the barb to a -12 fitting or tap your block to fit the -an fitting you'll be using. running a hose with heat wrap would obviously be easier.

Well that was a mock up. The drain is actually facing more towards the block now, but is almost pointing straight down.

I need a work bench like that, that looks to be about my level. Where did you get it? Toysrus?

I had the same problem with the drain line. I had hardly any room to play with. I know we run completly different setups, but this is I came up with. It's a S15 T28 turbo.

My mother in law got it at Wally World for my son. It never got put together because my wife broke it putting it together

That's a GREAT shot to explain what I'm talking about! THanks!

Now imagine the brunt of the compressor housing being almost directly over the oil return flange on the block, with about 2" of room between the tip of the flare and the housing.

That fitting would be perfect if I turn it 45* counter clockwise, and then use a braided line in a u bend of sorts to the return port on the chra.

What drain line fitting is that? That's sweet