Rotating compressor housing?
 

Do you want to turn the compressor housing or the turbine housing for clearance issuse? Does it matter how much your rotate it or as long as the oil return it striaght up and down?

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mostly the reson u rotatre either housing is to do just that make shure the in is on top and the out for the oil is on bottom or sometimes like with my setup the out was on top and the in was on bottom when i mounted it to my addapter plate. also if i remember correctly the compressor outlet was pointing directly back at my block well that wasnt going to work either so i had to rotate that housing also.and just a side note the oil in and out dont have to be perfectly strait up and down...but obviously pointing down enough for the oil to drain suficiently

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by rootating these doesn't throw the turbo out of balancee does it? jsut when you take apart too look at the bearing is when you shoud mark the turbo and make sure you put it back the same??
thankz

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no it won't, you can take off both housing and turbo will still spin.. the housing just like a cover and for air to flow

the turbine and compressor wheels are still bolted.. now if you unbolt those and then open, then you'll make it off balance and also you break the oil seals.

and also, get ready to use box wrenches and a lot of swear words.. especially on the exhaust side... you might even have to grind down a box wrench or the turbo.. i couldn't fit my wrench on one of the bolts....

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get ready to use box wrenches and a lot of swear words.. especially on the exhaust side... you might even have to grind down a box wrench or the turbo.. i couldn't fit my wrench on one of the bolts....

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is there a ez way to pop off the snap ring that holds the compressor housing? thats things a B!tch

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yea adjusting is a bitch... just keep flow in on top and drain on bottom, you can adjust the compressor side easier ive found, so go with that
mike

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I bought a pair of snap ring plyers from www.harborfreight.com, they were like $11 for 2 of them.

That is one BAD ASS snap ring for sure !!

Keep in mind that the compressor housing being rotated and the exhuast housing not being rotated is going to cause some issues with your wastegate lining up, unless you have an external WG..

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of course im speaking from the real heavy racers choice of an external wastegate, and yes clock the exhaust housing to keep ur internal wastegate actuator lined up if u want to use it, i recommned external for sure for many reasons if you dont already have one
mike

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May 9sec buick V6 car uses internal WG's... But your right, the external is better, just a PITA for homemade kits that are cost effecent ( I have about $150 in my set-up as of right now, prob. $300 total ).

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you have a beastly grand national or what? Those cars are bad
mike

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My best friend has one that ran 11.2 with stock heads, cam, intake, and block + full interior and without a stand-alone FMU. Now he has a little bigger turbo, FEl-pro stand-alone, slicks, and more suspension mods. And its still internally gated. His dad has a $18K "stage2" motor that can make about 800hp with his current set-up and he took an external WG off to go back to and internal b/c he thought it was too much trouble ( and it was, it took me forever to get the exhuast crap off ).

If your pushing your turbo "to the limit" you shouldn't need that much WG area, but if you running 5psi on a big T-3 it would help a lot.

A guy named Cal Hartline uses an external on his low 8sec GN, but that's WAY BEOND a "street car" ( even though his is legal, and he does drive it to work sometimes ).

The GN is the baddest motor pound for pound that I've found other than the supra/skyline motors, but they're real cheap, hehe..

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pound for pound you got it, ur right about hassle in many ways but it all depends on the car, the motor, the set up.. and so forth... its just know that with an internal wastegate u can get interference from high flowing exhaust gases and get minor fluctuations and boost creep, not always and not for sure... its just logical and ive done a lot of research, Honda motors are pretty cheap and cheap to throw on a turbo kit and run 12's all day in a light car daily driven, so thats pretty awesome as well

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wrong!

u can take it apart the oil seals are not like a gasket..

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I tried to do this once with one of my old T3's I had. I ended up snapping 2 of the compressor housing bolts. Whoops!

So the question is should you heat these to remove them or will that damage anything like the seals?

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u can do it while the turbo is rather hot if u wish... just use gloves.. the reason they probably snapped was ur angle.. u need good leverage.. a solid grab and and a 180 degree pull straight out
mike

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i need to rotate my compressor houseing too. both inlet and outlet point to eachother.

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You don't need to take it off competely. Just loosen the bolts and turn the housing. Hit your wrench with a hammer until it breaks lose.