hey,

just sitting in my dorm room up at college thinkin about all the stupid details before i install the turbo over spring break.

Is my manifold for a 99-00. It has the EGR off of cyl 4. From the BEGI site it looks like this is for 99-00. i do have a plug for it but i would prefer to keep the egr system

My car is a 1996 with the stock 1.8. If it is for the 99-00 what do i have to do to get it to work.

 

I've seen a 94-95 FM manifold with the EGR in the same place. FM makes a full-replacement EGR tube; buy it and save yourself a shitload of hassle.

 

yeah reading thru FMs instructions it seems i need to either block it off or buy the new line


uhg i ******* hate buying more ****

 

It fits perfectly, if that's any consolation.

 

why do you want to retain your egr? I'm just curious

 

Good luck with that. I hope you're planning on doing the turbo stuff in a day so when it takes 5 times longer than your maximum initial estimate you have time to finish. I'm telling yah, I had it ALLLLL figured out. Had everything pretty much ready to turbo. Figured I'd pull the motor friday, tap the pan and install turbo **** sat. Get the motor back in and be tuning by sunday night. 10 days later I was tuning. Never thought it could possibly take that long.

As for the EGR stuff, dunno. I drilled and tapped my FM mani's EGR outlet and put a 3/8 NPT pipe plug in it. Fit the first time too. Oh yeah, and probably cheaper than whatever FM sells.

 

My car was down for a month while I turboed it.

 

My car was down for about 1.5 weeks. Took half the week off before i went out to buy the correct fittings. Just make sure you have EVERYTHING.
I prebuilt the full system off the car as i was collecting parts.

 

Ive been working on my setup since October. I have built (where necessary) and test fit the turbo, intercooler / pipes, and downpipe already. My plan is to tap the pan and do final install in a day. I have all the fittings and little things like the crankcase lines, vac lines, couplers, nuts n bolts.

Im not going to hold my breath, but i think I may be able to do it ... my 1.6 begi kit took 2 days, and that was my first time. I will see.

 

I'm obd2... not to mention there is no real performance benifit of removing it.


Pat: this is by far not my first turbo project. I do see a posibility that i will be done within that week because i have planned out every little detail, but ik **** always takes longer. My goal is to get the clutch in, Hi-res flashed, injectors installed, and IC pipes atleast fabbed up. Final install will probably happen later on.

 

I would highly recommend upgrading the studs on that manifold to M10 before using it.