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  1. I hadnt even logged in for 3 years. Surprised my pics were still on the first page. Meh. Bye for another 3 years!
  2. You're welcome. Those blades are nasty!! Do you still have an uppipe cat? It might be breaking up and do it to your new turbo.
  3. You don't need to prime it again if you just pulled it off the car.
  4. Oil return first, air inlet last. I use a bent coathanger to pull the air inlet back on. The metal outlet should still be on the turbo, the hose should still be on the the inlet on the engine. Put the turbo onto the uppipe and slide the oil tube into the hose at the same time.
  5. Hello, could you posibly point me in the direction of a coilover rebuilder for MR's? Could I send em over to you? Do I need to send them all the way to Megan themselves? They don't seem to have the best customer service for the end user.

     

    Thanks!

     

    Charlie

  6. I did, it sucked. The pipe is being sold on Nasioc right now.
  7. I retorque everything with my precision hand-ometer. That and a small bottle of Blue Loktite. I know roughly how much torque on each nut and bolt because I have done this about 10 times. But if you haven't done this a few times, I would suggest getting torque specs.
  8. Yeah, but his pics aren't edited with MSPaint goodness!
  9. But wait, you mean to say that the uppipe will not come out from the top or bottom? I don't have pics of this, but, remove the nut(s) from the passenger side motor mount and jack the engine up a bit on that side. The uppipe will slide right out.
  10. Now remove the two uppipe bolts, lift the uppipe out from the top and you will truly be left with this. Remember the uppipe's lower gasket. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00445_2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00461_2.jpg
  11. I believe the uppipe bolts can be removed without taking the O2 sensor out, but if you want to take it out, here's a way how. IIRC, that is a 22mm wrench. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00438.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00440.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00445.jpg
  12. Maybe I can rename the thread 'How to (un)install the intercooler, downpipe, turbo and uppipe with pics'...
  13. Back under the car, in front, we need to get access to the bottom two uppipe bolts. But the bolts are not accessible due to an exhaust manifold heat shield being in the way. So let's remove it. Stupid undertray, let's move that a bit. Remove the fasteners located here. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00443.jpg There are four bolts holding the heat shield on. Here are two of the bolts, the other two are on the other side of the heat shield. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00442.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00444.jpg
  14. Yeah, I know I should do that. Part of me wants it to break so I can install a braided line.
  15. Did you read any of the text, or just look at the pics?
  16. From the top of the car, remove the two nuts holding the uppipe supports. The pic shows them from below, but get them from the top. Also, if you have an EGT sensor, remove that from the uppipe as well. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00450_2.jpg
  17. At this point the turbo should be removed. I don't have a good pic of the result, unfortunately. Now onto the uppipe... and this gets real sketchy in the pic department.
  18. Two things left. Jumping ahead in the pic sequence, reach down under the turbo and slide down the clamp that holds the lower oil hose on. It's easy, it's on the pipe shown here. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00461-1.jpg Now remember that line we disconnected up top? Bend that thing out of the way a bit, but only enough to pull out the turbo. I hate this part because I always hear of people breaking it. I save this part for the end. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00432_5.jpg
  19. In front of the turbo, there are a couple things we have to disconnect. The intake and a wastegate hose. The intake hose can be loosened here. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00452.jpg You can't see it here, but there is a T in the wastegate hose a few inches from the arrow. Disconnect that. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00453.jpg
  20. Things got a bit sketchy here with my pics. I was in a rush to get out of the rain. We need to get back up top in the engine bay. There are three nuts/bolts to be removed to loosen the turbo from the uppipe. The arrow points to the third not shown in the picture. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00451.jpg
  21. Pull the downpipe off and you'll be looking at something like this. Three things to note. First, the gasket still no the turbo, don't want to forget about that. Second, the bolt I have in the uppipe. That is where the stock EGT probe would be. And third, there is a better look at the lower coolant hose clamp we couldn't see before. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/wcbjr/DSC00450.jpg
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