help with turbo water lines

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syclone0209

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Well i wasnt thinking and realized that the block has a partial block fill and that the factory return line on the bottom of the block is filled so it wont work. can i run the feed from the front of the manifold to the turbo and then run the return from the turbo to the inlet for the heater core and then back to the manifold? any other places i can run the return line too.

heres a link to my original question
http://www.syty.net/forums/showthread.php?t=58569
 
Norm

Norm

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Re: help with turbo water lines

drill and tap the back of the intake manifold, it's aluminum so it's not that hard to do. Seen it done on small block chev's not sure as if it wouldn't work on what you have.
 
Don W.

Don W.

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Re: help with turbo water lines

IMO the feed is the other way around. Lower block to turbo to manifold. But regardless just tie into the water pump side of the heater. Flow = manifold - turbo - heater return line - water pump. If yur running a 160 stat I wouldn't think there'd be a problem. Different turbo = no water lines at all. Ideally you'd want water pump (cool water) to turbo to manifold but right this minute I can't think of a connection, besides the stock one, to get water pump output.

Just my :2cents:
 
Don W.

Don W.

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Re: help with turbo water lines

Norm said:
drill and tap the back of the intake manifold, it's aluminum so it's not that hard to do. Seen it done on small block chev's not sure as if it wouldn't work on what you have.
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From here to the turbo and back to the front of the manifold would not amount to any flow (no pressure difference between the two). I'm not entirely sure there's much flow with the stock setup.:roll:
 
Norm

Norm

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Re: help with turbo water lines

I saw it done at the back of the manifold( by the distributo). I'm not sure how much water flow there is, but some is better than nothing at all.How about t-ing off from where the temp sensor goes ?. There would be something moving aorund there.
 
Don W.

Don W.

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Re: help with turbo water lines

syclone0209 said:
it has the edlbrock pump so i have an extra outlet on the top of it to use
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Best idea yet. Although I think that's a suction fitting not a pressure fitting. That would definitely give you plenty of flow.
 
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