I am looking at the turbo side of the CA block and there is the standard turbo oil drain that is a flanged pipe that goes into the sump right below the engine mount. My question is "is the a drain hole into the block that I can screw a tapered thread barbed or -10 fitting into"? I have noticed that towards the rear lower part of the block, on the turbo side, there is a bung screwed into it but I am not sure what its for. I want to run braided hose and screw in fittings on my turbo so no hose clamps is my aim and the oil drain is my only hold up.

Cheers for any feed back

For the oil drain return line to sump just weld a -10 fitting on. Its ideal to have the return straight down as possible. That screw bung is for water if its below the water return. Blow some compressor air to be sure tho. Might get some pictures for you.

Hmmm, weld on a fitting you say, I might look into it. Yeh that bung is under the water fitting, it looked large so I wad hoping it was an alternate oil return. I'll take a pic myself just to be sure. I mean its right below a welsh plug so its more than likely a water jacket bung but it cant hurt to ask.

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that plug is water and above that is water also.

oh well, there goes the easy way, time to wind down the power in my mig and weld on a fitting to the drain, might blaze some wings on the sump too while I am at it.