Hori Turbo Throw Together

**BadCo.** · 23rd September 2015, 08:10 PM

Right well, a mate of a mate gave a mate a turbo for me to chuck on the Isuzu. So I bought a genuine exhaust manifold, drove the truck into the garage, and now here we are...

It's a cute little Nissan turbo off of a VG20 motor. It has 16 V 8 on the compressor housing and apparently is good for 12 PSI. That's all I know about it.

Now, I had dreams of doing a sweet intercooled turbo setup later on next year, but this turbo fell in my lap. So me and mate thought we would throw it together then tidy it up later as funds become available. So please bear with me

Lots of things to sort through:

-Move dipstick: It flops around a bit at the moment, so not too hard to move
-Move heater lines: I might just run heater hose around the outside back to engine, I may flip the heater core
-Move vac line: Might just use flexible vacuum hose and a Tee for the diff lock.
-Oil supply: Still trying to find it
-Oil return: Going to tap a -10AN elbow onto the plate below the breather
-Exhaust and dump pipe: Next weeks problem
-Flip air cleaner and modify to suit: I'll probably blank off the intake and make the duck bill the intake and find somewhere else to do the drain.
-Extend breather pipe.
-Thermocouple: I have a 1" T3 spacer that I will drip a hole in for the probe

Did I miss anything?

Current Issues:

-Turbo oil drain: Did you spot it? Is this going to work?
-Oil supply: Still can't find it.
-Manifold Studs: Can I just use bolts?

There is also a big shopping list and few funds available (not how I wanted to do this, oh well) the * ones are what I have already obtained.

-Side Plates to Cylinder Block 8943673680 x2*
-Manifold Gasket 8944046100*
-T3 Gasket x2
-Exhaust flange gasket
-T3 Spacer*
-EGT Gauge and probe
-Boost Gauge
-Oil press Gauge
-Exhaust Flange
-Hose Clamps
-Silicon hoses
-Gauge Pod*
-Oil Drain flange
-Compressor Outlet Elbow*

Feel free to post some feedback and any tips haha.

Wish me luck!

Bad

**paulak** · 24th September 2015, 08:22 AM

Good luck.
Watching with interest.
Paul.

**BadCo.** · 24th September 2015, 07:07 PM

Another mission done.

Removed the heater matrix.

Drilled out rivets, flipped the core, then re-riveted.

Ran the heater hose out of the way as best as possible.

Tons of space now.

Tomorrows mission, Vacuum line.

Adrian18 · 24th September 2015, 08:05 PM

Oil feed tee off alternatorfeed at the banjo use a longer bolt and use a 2nd banjo to feed turbo ....manifold use bolts and spring washers and never seize ....is that the turbo oil dump on top????

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**BadCo.** · 24th September 2015, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Adrian18

Oil feed tee off alternatorfeed at the banjo use a longer bolt and use a 2nd banjo to feed turbo ....manifold use bolts and spring washers and never seize ....is that the turbo oil dump on top????

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I was hoping to get oil feed off of the gallery, but I'm not sure where I am looking. Supposedly to the right of the pressure sender?

Unfortunately that is the drain on top. Not sure if this will work or end up with oil in the exhaust?

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**steveG** · 24th September 2015, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by BadCo.

I was hoping to get oil feed off of the gallery, but I'm not sure where I am looking. Supposedly to the right of the pressure sender?

Unfortunately that is the drain on top. Not sure if this will work or end up with oil in the exhaust?

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Definitely need the drain at the bottom - within about 15deg of vertical is the recommendation from memory. Should be able to loosen the clamp plates between the center assy and the compressor and turbine housings then rotate the center compared to the housing. If it doesn't want to turn once they are loosened, don't force it - take the housing right off as there might be a locating pin in there. Google "turbo clocking" for more info.
You'll likely have to modify the bracket for the wastegate actuator unless you get lucky and it lines up with bolt holes afterwards.

Steve

**BadCo.** · 25th September 2015, 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by steveG

Definitely need the drain at the bottom - within about 15deg of vertical is the recommendation from memory. Should be able to loosen the clamp plates between the center assy and the compressor and turbine housings then rotate the center compared to the housing. If it doesn't want to turn once they are loosened, don't force it - take the housing right off as there might be a locating pin in there. Google "turbo clocking" for more info.
You'll likely have to modify the bracket for the wastegate actuator unless you get lucky and it lines up with bolt holes afterwards.

Steve

Awesome, thanks for that.

We did try and rotate the exhaust hosing but it won't spin on the centre bit. The compressor rotates fine though but we need to rotate both 180 degrees.

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**87County** · 25th September 2015, 05:10 AM

Watching with interest..... I understand that the turbo was free but have you otherwise estimated the cost ?

I hope it all goes smoothly for you.

**BadCo.** · 25th September 2015, 05:39 AM

I can give you an estimate when I get home. It should only be a few hundred bucks not including the dump pipe and exhaust.

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Adrian18 · 25th September 2015, 08:26 AM

Couple of pics of oil feed ect

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