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Zrussian13
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I love the low mount. No heat in the engine bay. It's 115° out here right now. Normally I wouldn't push it on pump gas but on my e30 tune the car rips in the heat better than my pump gas tune in the winter so I'm waiting impatiently for winter to really give it the beans! Hellion's scavenger pump works great. I was leary at first because of how slow it turns but its been solid for over 4 years. I did replace the belt once because it had a little cracking but it was minor. I only did it preemptively because I had a shoulder surgery coming up and knew I'd be out of commission for a bit.
Get your house done so you can start that build brother!
Zrussian13
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I love the low mount. No heat in the engine bay. It's 115° out here right now. Normally I wouldn't push it on pump gas but on my e30 tune the car rips in the heat better than my pump gas tune in the winter so I'm waiting impatiently for winter to really give it the beans! Hellion's scavenger pump works great. I was leary at first because of how slow it turns but its been solid for over 4 years. I did replace the belt once because it had a little cracking but it was minor. I only did it preemptively because I had a shoulder surgery coming up and knew I'd be out of commission for a bit.
Get your house done so you can start that build brother!
NGOT8R
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I’m more than ready to get started on it! Believe me when I say, they can’t finish building the house fast enough.I love the low mount. No heat in the engine bay. It's 115° out here right now. Normally I wouldn't push it on pump gas but on my e30 tune the car rips in the heat better than my pump gas tune in the winter so I'm waiting impatiently for winter to really give it the beans! Hellion's scavenger pump works great. I was leary at first because of how slow it turns but its been solid for over 4 years. I did replace the belt once because it had a little cracking but it was minor. I only did it preemptively because I had a shoulder surgery coming up and knew I'd be out of commission for a bit.
Get your house done so you can start that build brother!
Vandor
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I knew it works because hellion kit does it. I don't like drilling stuff if I don't have to. You could tap right into the pan if you have a metal one I suppose and it would probably eliminate the need for a pump.
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I looked at that too and did a lot of research. The bad side is they use a proprietary grease that is stupid expensive and you have to grease them a lot. I read a post where the guy regretted it because he said he had to grease them at about half the recommended intervals or they would start making noise.
NGOT8R
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Copy that. I would like to weld a -10AN bung onto the timing cover if I can get a clear path back to the turbo drain, but it’s going to be tight in that area. I’m adding an electric water pump too, so the hoses will have to be reconfigured.
The oil pan is composite on the Gen. 3, so I won’t be able to tap it like a metal pan.
NGOT8R
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@Vandor are your charge pipe and compressor flanges v-band or are they connected via a silicone coupler?
Mine are v-band flanges, but I was struggling with trying to figure out how I would seal them using 3.5” Viton o-ring gaskets that are supposed to seat into a channel cut into the charge pipe flange. It appeared to me that the flange had been inadvertently coated, thus filling up the o-ring groove and creating a fitment issue.
Yesterday. I ended up cleaning the powder coating out of that channel in the charge pipe and now the gasket will fit. The next challenge will be keeping it in place once I go to mate it to the compressor flange. I’m thinking some Permatex High Tack silicone o-ring safe spray.
I’ve read a little bit about copper gaskets being recommended for the header to hot side flanges, so I’m trying to sort out as much of this as possible and come up with a solid plan before installation time.
How will you guys will approach those portions of the install to ensure no leaks?
Mine are v-band flanges, but I was struggling with trying to figure out how I would seal them using 3.5” Viton o-ring gaskets that are supposed to seat into a channel cut into the charge pipe flange. It appeared to me that the flange had been inadvertently coated, thus filling up the o-ring groove and creating a fitment issue.
Yesterday. I ended up cleaning the powder coating out of that channel in the charge pipe and now the gasket will fit. The next challenge will be keeping it in place once I go to mate it to the compressor flange. I’m thinking some Permatex High Tack silicone o-ring safe spray.
I’ve read a little bit about copper gaskets being recommended for the header to hot side flanges, so I’m trying to sort out as much of this as possible and come up with a solid plan before installation time.
How will you guys will approach those portions of the install to ensure no leaks?
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Vandor
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@Vandor are your charge pipe and compressor flanges v-band or are they connected via a silicone coupler?
Mine are v-band flanges, but I was struggling with trying to figure out how I would seal them using 3.5” Viton o-ring gaskets that are supposed to seat into a channel cut into the charge pipe flange. It appeared to me that the flange had been inadvertently coated, thus filling up the o-ring groove and creating a fitment issue.
Yesterday. I ended up cleaning the powder coating out of that channel in the charge pipe and now the gasket will fit. The next challenge will be keeping it in place once I go to mate it to the compressor flange. I’m thinking some Permatex High Tack silicone o-ring safe spray.
I’ve read a little bit about copper gaskets being recommended for the header to hot side flanges, so I’m trying to sort out as much of this as possible and come up with a solid plan before installation time.
How will you guys will approach those portions of the install to ensure no leaks?
They're all Silicone Adapters. O
@Vandor are your charge pipe and compressor flanges v-band or are they connected via a silicone coupler?
Mine are v-band flanges, but I was struggling with trying to figure out how I would seal them using 3.5” Viton o-ring gaskets that are supposed to seat into a channel cut into the charge pipe flange. It appeared to me that the flange had been inadvertently coated, thus filling up the o-ring groove and creating a fitment issue.
Yesterday. I ended up cleaning the powder coating out of that channel in the charge pipe and now the gasket will fit. The next challenge will be keeping it in place once I go to mate it to the compressor flange. I’m thinking some Permatex High Tack silicone o-ring safe spray.
I’ve read a little bit about copper gaskets being recommended for the header to hot side flanges, so I’m trying to sort out as much of this as possible and come up with a solid plan before installation time.
How will you guys will approach those portions of the install to ensure no leaks?
They're all silicone adapters with t bolt clamps. I was able to get them all for pretty cheap online. I also cancelled my order with Arashi and just picked up dual boostlabs 6262RS turbos to replace the hellion ones. Boostlabs has a moving sale right now and I got both for pretty cheap. I also like that the boostlabs turbos come ceramic coated and (if you go journal bearing) they're only oil cooled no water needed. they come with a warranty and it's an American company on top of that.
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