Yes... The thought was to run the scavenge pump and correct it. He tried something new with a different vendor and he found out it didn't work. lesson learned!

I think I am the same boat as well... I need to match it up and see how it all fits.

 

The only parts of my kit that are Greddy is the intercooler, exhaust manifold and most of the piping. Everything else has been upgraded. Once the intercooler is upgraded then even less.

 

Yea I purchased a bigger intercooler, and sold the stock greddy one. At this point I am thoroughly unimpressed with anything greddy, so I tired to get rid of everything I could!

 

that looks like your holding the turbo upside down. Where is the manifold flange? is it at the palm of your hand? doesnt look like its clocked much (if at all). It will be hard as all hell to get the return line bolted up like that though.

 

My kit has greddy piping, IC, oil feed lines, and turbo (rebuilt and balanced by Boostlabs here in Tampa

 

My turbo was upgraded by BNR and I have their wastegate.

 

Yeah I tried clocking it a couple of ways, even with the coolant lines disconnected and the drain pointing straight down it still smoked I tried working with AMR to get it right, even sent them pics of how the BNR sits but.....................

But it doesn't matter now Soon enough I will have a new turbo with properly fitted/routed hard lines that has already ready been tested to fit using my Greddy manifold

 

gl man. let the the devilish hair-drying commence

 

No ****, I am ready to lay down some rubber. Driving like an old lady is getting old

 

I went and bought a crazy 1/4" socket extension set that had a bunch of swivel heads in it.... it was tiny but I was able to get that top DP bolt really quite easily..... I'd recommend that do anyone

As precise as the hammer is, I prefer not to use it

 

Someone tried to defy physics.

And Failed.

I guarantee that caused all your problems. Damaging the turbine seal as well. Should not have even put the turbo on when that became apparent.

 

Actually with the mounts unbolted you can shift the motor over a bit and get to it but it is not fun. I will definitely use the 1/4" swivel, extensions, etc.

 

You can defy physics if you use a motor.

Think of it as a sump pump, pulling oil up and out. similar to a sump pump in a basement, or a vacuum on the floor, or heck even the OMP.

The turbine oil seal was not found in fault until we took it apart.

It was an experiment no big deal...

 

I had some... I just didn't think the 3/8 would get stuck.

 

You cannot expect the oil to drain effectively by being sucked up by the vacuum of a pump, especially given its viscosity. Pumps work best when the fluid is already flowing to/through it.

 

The pump was designed to move engine oil at what viscosity/temperature I have no clue. The pressure in the oil system combined with the pump drawing it up should have worked fine. The location of the pump might have had an effect on it.

Either way it doesn't matter much, the experiment didn't work out as planned. But he gave it a shot and tried a new approach to the greddy kit.

 

Just as an aside - I now know of 4-5 different people who have attempted to run a turbo on our cars with a drain pump . All 5 have failed . Hence my remarks earlier in this thread.
Were they all incompetent or is there a problem with doing it this way ?

 

Apparently that is the secret sauce recipe

 

No, it just has to be designed for that duty is all

 

I have and extension that is about 3 ft long . That plus a swivel makes it easy .

 

Yeah the pump was rated for pumping hot oil and worked fine once the engine/oil was warmed up and flowing. Priming it helped a bit but it just wasn't ideal and the oil that leaked into the system when it was cold was then just sent through the charge pipes and made a mess because a bit would leak out of the crappy *** Type R BOV.

But that was that, I tried it, it didn't work. I have even considered putting the turbo on it's own oil circuit with a reservoir and the pump I have but I'm not going to be an idiot and experiment again

K.I.S.S.

 

WTH Wow that was some amazingly bad typing on my end.

 

converting to an equivalent Comp Turbo CT2 oil-less turbo assembly might help you meet the KISS principal, your bank account might prefer you use the KICS principle though

otherwise don't be afraid to try stuff, which means falling down sometimes. That's how we all learn and grow.


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Yeah I contacted them and I was not prepared for that price tag. Actually they gave me a range and wouldn't really give me any details until I sent them the Greddy. I still think that would be ideal for a low mount setup on the RX-8. From what Comp said and from what I have read on some of the Vette and Mopar forums, the oil less turbos are holding up very well to abuse.

 

Yeah I believe I used a combination of two different lengthed extensions with two swivels.... basically you just gotta F*** around till you find something that will grip that nut

I remember I tried a very similiar set up with the 3/8" extensions and swivels and it wouldn't bite, but the same set-up with the 1/4" set-up got completely over the nut...... I pondered for days how I was gonna reach that damn nut; the relief felt once that smaller socket extensions worked.... I dont have words haha