I'm really wanting to upgrade these lines just for reliability purposes. Does anyone have a write up or parts list to do this?

 

You can't beat the stock oil supply and drain lines / pipes.
There is nothing aftermarket that can beat it.
Even SS AN hose is not as reliable as hard pipes.


-Ted

 

im thinking maybe the one line for oil that is braided from the factory (cause mine is leaking at the moment...)
and the lower coolant hose that attaches to the water pump housing...

 

Arg... they leak though and it annoys me. I guess I just need to get some gasket maker and do my best. What about coolant lines? I have a coolant feed hose coming from the back/top of the block to a ghetto rigged banjo bolt that has to be replaced ever so often because it gets super hard from the heat.

 

gaskets for all this stuff are like $2 a piece of mazdatrix. put a little gasket maker on both sides of the gasket and make sure the bolts are on there properly and it shouldn't leak

 

The search results are really screwed up for some reason, so I can't find any of the past topics covering this.

ATP turbo sells a T4 drain flange with a 1/2" NPT port on it which you can use to connect to a 1/2" to -10 adapter to build a braided stainless oil drain. When using the S4 turbo, there does not appear to be enough space to use this but it works for S5.

For oil feed, ATP also sells an appropriate feed flange with a 1/8" port on it. Then use an adapter to go to -4 AN. The feed on the front iron is a standard metric thread (see the thread pitch topic in the Archives) for which you can get an adapter to -4.

This page may also help:
http://www.aaroncake.net/rx-7/naturbo13.htm