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Old 02-01-2005, 10:35 AM
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what you should do is rotate the compressor housing so it points straight down, then remove the tow hitch thats sitting there and run your piping 90 bend off the turbo and 180 into the intercooler. thats what i did




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Old 02-01-2005, 10:57 AM
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I think what I'm gonna do is mount the IC and then trim the bumper so I can see how much room I have left. For some reason I was thinking that the tow hook could be removed, but it would be too low to run a pipe.
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You can mount the wg further away from turbo on the a/c bolt holes on block. This way you can rotate the comp housing with no probs. As for the washer resevoir I just unbolted it and pushed it up a bit and had enough room to fit a 2.5" pipe under it.
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pm me a picture with your WG. i wanna see this.
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Old 02-01-2005, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by mahcivic
what you should do is rotate the compressor housing so it points straight down, then remove the tow hitch thats sitting there and run your piping 90 bend off the turbo and 180 into the intercooler. thats what i did




180 deg U bends are your friend.
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i had to shitcan my washer bottle... but i rarely used it anyway. Looks like youve got some custom fitting to do.
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Originally Posted by djfob
You can mount the wg further away from turbo on the a/c bolt holes on block. This way you can rotate the comp housing with no probs. As for the washer resevoir I just unbolted it and pushed it up a bit and had enough room to fit a 2.5" pipe under it.
i havent looked at mine yet, so all you do is remove it, drill some new holes then move it up? the windshield washer resevoir new occured to me before
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You can mount the wg further away from turbo on the a/c bolt holes on block. This way you can rotate the comp housing with no probs. As for the washer resevoir I just unbolted it and pushed it up a bit and had enough room to fit a 2.5" pipe under it.
i havent looked at mine yet, so all you do is remove it, drill some new holes then move it up? the windshield washer resevoir new occured to me before
I'm gonna take a look at that tonight (relocating the wg flange). I hacked mine down a lot to fit, so I need to make a pretty long extension. It would rock my socks off if I could rotate the compressor. It'd save me at least one 180 bend and some couplings.
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You can mount the wg further away from turbo on the a/c bolt holes on block. This way you can rotate the comp housing with no probs. As for the washer resevoir I just unbolted it and pushed it up a bit and had enough room to fit a 2.5" pipe under it.
i havent looked at mine yet, so all you do is remove it, drill some new holes then move it up? the windshield washer resevoir new occured to me before
I just unbolted it and pushed it up as far as it would go and let it rest on the 2.5 pipe.


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It's sinking in... It's sinking in...
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