Ok guys, mocking everything up before the engine goes back in. Trying to get as much as I can sorted before so it’s less painful when doing the final install. Ran into a small issue and looking for some advise. I have a kraken low mount manifold and a gt2554r and the wastegate isn’t playing nice. I’ve found adjustable wastegate brackets but I’m not sure if they’ll give me enough to get the wastegate where it needs to be. Any ideas?

 

 

I ran into something similar 2 builds ago. Came across a wedge spacer for the turbo mount that angles it a little bit further away from the block. It dropped the turbo a little bit which might add other fitting issues though and needs longer bolts/studs. Aggravation finally drove me to spend bigger bucks on a different manifold with EWG, not that an EWG is easy to fit in there either. There are 30’ish degree fittings that I tried but never got the overall spacing to work out that way.

 

I would just drill and tap new holes into the compressor housing. There's plenty of meat

 

Or make a bracket that bolts in both existing hole locations that extends outwards and mounts the actuator. That water (?) fitting is going to be tight though.

 

Spoiler because the photo is huge. The bracket is from ATP Turbo. I bent the actuator arm over my anvil. The actuator itself has been great over the last 4500 miles since I've installed it. I had planned to clock it like yours, but ended up clocking it like I did because I couldn't get clearance to suit me.

 

Could you repost the picture 😅 I'm in this boat rn

 

I actually went a different route. I did this. Found the outlet flange online.