my day fitting the 16t

[craigoodwood]

so yesterday i arranged to fit the 16t at my friends garage, in order to have the use of the ramp for the day i had to refit the front and rear bumper to his hotrod so we could push it off the ramp...





that took two hours off my turbo time, hour later the turbo was off...


an hour after that i'd swapped the blanking plate and water pipe and fitted two new studs into the turbine


then i started to fit the new turbo but the first nut i tightened snapped the stud in the exhaust manifold, which is why there is no more pics cause of stress and time so i removed the turbo again, welded a nut onto the stud, heated up the manifold, wound it out and fitted a new stud (crisis levelled)
anyway after that it went together reasonably well, some arkward positions for the water and oil pipes but sorted it, unplugged the coil lead and wound it over.... plugged it back in and it fired up lovely
left it ticking over till the temp was at 3oclock, by that time there was a fair amount of steam from the exhaust and a tiny leak from the poorly designed rubber water pipe by the cam pulley but soon fixed...
test drive all seemed well so i opened it up, no smoke no steam and pulling well and hittin 1.2 bar in all but first gear
it'll take a week or so to get used to the difference in the way the turbo winds up ie it seemed to take longer to spool up but had more pull further up the revs??
but yeah i'm pretty chuffed with the result but like funk would i want to do it again
i've done about 100 miles since then and it is now reachin 1.3 bar

on another plus side the 15g i took off the turbine side was uncracked too

[nottsgreent5]

i was happy when i fitted mine seemed a lot more gutsy did you get the blues in?

[craigoodwood]

not yet they are still in transit, but ill give it a weak as is before i fit them gimme chance to get a new fuel filter
gutsy is one word for it, when floorin it it just wants to torque steer
mrs craigoodwood thought it inappropriate to show her

[oblark]

That`s my next job to fit the 16t, after that it`s RICA 304 ecu and blue injectors.

[smithy]

weldone mate and enjoy and now i donot want to meet you on the road in my 940 because im up your way sometimes only coming from birmingham .

[nottsgreent5]

not yet they are still in transit, but ill give it a weak as is before i fit them gimme chance to get a new fuel filter
gutsy is one word for it, when floorin it it just wants to torque steer
mrs craigoodwood thought it inappropriate to show her

haha be carefull if your thinking of fitting an mbc as itsvery easy to get to much boost low down and bend a rod or spin a bearig as i did with mine lol changing to a good set of blues will some how make it feel alot more solid thru the revs aswell well it did to mine! prob people will not agree

[smithy]

haha be carefull if your thinking of fitting an mbc as itsvery easy to get to much boost low down and bend a rod or spin a bearig as i did with mine lol changing to a good set of blues will some how make it feel alot more solid thru the revs aswell well it did to mine! prob people will not agree

i agree blues are a good upgrade mate

[T5RPete]

Good effort man! better than I could do myself.