well as many may know im turboing the a series. i just thought i might tell some people what there up against with doing it. today i finally got the last of the parts and fitted them up thinking yay its going to be going today, oh how i was wrong, first thing this morning i picked up my new oil feed line, $100 later i get it home, not very happy. then i go to fit the drain plug into the sump, using a specialy made tool you punch a hole in the side of the sump and then make a thread, i put the plug in and was so exited i thought i might start the baby up, to my shock it sounded like all hell was breaking loose in my engine, it sounded like there was no oil pumping through so i shut it down and checked it out. soon to find that the plug was too long and hitting on somthing inside the engine (sh,t,crap,whore were the words i think). after shortening that i started it again and found that the exhausts gasket had spat out making another crappy sound, so tommorrow ill try finish and it should....should be going, fingers crossed.
the list of problems i have had with doing this project is massive and i now wish i had of just gone the ca heres a few of the many more things that went wrong along the way.
-fuel pump pressure overloaded the carby and filled everything with fuel
-fuel reg (ebay) seals not sealing (fuel spray everywhere)
-fuel fittings blowing off
-ihi turbos are crap for getting parts, took more than 15 turbo shops and wreckers to get the correct thread banjo fittings.
-and heaps more
so beware anyone that thinks a turbo kit is easy.

bugger!

C'mon, the individuality has to be worth something with going the way you have

what have you done for the carb? feeding it in wise I mean... Edit: scratch that, saw the pics in the other thread

yeah im still happy with it, its just a pitty i didint go the ca instead. becuase i could have done the ca thing for roughly the same price

not sounding too good there .... hopefully you've got most of the big bugs sortrd now ??!!
out of curiousity ... how much do you estimate it has cost to date to get the stage of nearly being ready to run ?
cheers

wahoooooo its finished. she boosts up sweeeeettt. only gotta take it in for a dyno tune now.

as for how much it cost........i would say including the radiator and fan and piping i would say about $2350........ aaaaaaahahhahaha, i feel a bit crazy now about spending those sorta dollars but..but yeah im nuts. that 2350 price was inlcuding all the stuff ups and rebuying alot of crap thou if i knew what i was doing in the firsthand i would say about $2000. i would say that there was about $500 bucks worth of little fiddle bits and peices like turbo fitting that i didnt get with the turbo and stuff

congratulations !!!
even at $2500 it's not too bad .... have you driven it much or waiting on the dyno tune ??? running standard boost ?? any idea how much ??

its a bit late now but instead of gpoig to 15 shops to find banjo fittings you can just put brass hose tails in there and use hose and clamps for water lines of turbo.

hey bud booosssssst the ute up she all going ok ?? i have to give u a run wit my slippy clutch and see if you can keep up lol and that bov will get a good work out i know mine did when i got it going ttttuuttuuttttuu lol

yeah did a few runs down the street just for a quick tune but no really big runs yet, as for the water line fittings it was also the problem that i had no room to run a pipe straight out i had to have it angle straight away, the right angled fittings also wouldnt screw oin because they would hit as theyre tightened as for the boost its running stock which i think is 7.2psi

yer its got a go harder then the stock a12 but carnt wait till the next datto meet to have a look