do it once, do it right.
 

this is how to dress a turbo.
no leaks, no cracked rubber tubing.
just have to cut and flare my aluminum tubing for the coolant lines.

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looks good.

What size is that return line?

looks like a -8 or 10.. aka, pretty big.

thats pretty nice. I use a regular old rubber hose for my return and it never leaks on me though.

the return is -10an.

the rubber lines will harden and crack over time from the heat. i helped a friend replace his a few weeks ago. they looked alright but when we flexed them, the split. no worries on this one.

If you use garden hose or something, but I cant imagine a problem using a rubber hose rated for the temp.

But Pretty Turbo.

no, the hose was heat rated and triple ply.

Don't use solid aluminum tubing for your lines. It'll stress fracture.

Stainless tubing is the way to go, but it's really hard on the flaring tools.

FWIW,

Jon

Why not SB hose for the coolant lines also?

That wouldn't be a problem either. However, KFJ said he was using aluminum tubing.

Cool, I forgot to ask when seeing the pics of your setup and wondered if there was a particular reason why you didn't use it. Seeing another setup without it I figured I better make sure there wasn't a good reason.

I'm just lazy. I only wanted to do it once, and not have to worry about it for 60K miles...and stuff and junk. ;)

Kewl...it looks small for 5/8" to me for some reason. Maybe the turbo's just really big :o

Nice WG can bracket. Where'd ya get it? What brand/part#/etc?

I took a straight aluminum bracket and beat the hell out of it for a day or two to get it to fit right.

i'm using aircraft grade, mil-spec aluminum tubing. the tubes are probably ~ 4" each, far enough away from the turbo to keep the rubber lines from cracking. i don't want to use SB on the coolant lines because of where they run and their abrasiveness. maybe down the road, i'll consider it...when i make SB fuel lines. swapping SB on the coolant lines will be a snap with teh AN fittings.

that's a t25r (gt2554r), it's not that big of a turbo.

the actuator mount is from ATP turbo. i didnt' know if it was going to work with my compressor orientation, but is worked perfectly. i'm happy with it.

Well obviously misrated or POS hose. Coolant hoses see probably similar temps, specially those for turbo.

Humor not getting across on the ol' intarweb, huh?:sadwavey:

feh. looong week. sorry.

It's all good :) Looks great, man!