Center iron: Do the ports extend to far towards the center of the iron? To me it looks like it just touches the edge of the oil seal track, + i want to clean up the ports and since they look like **** now...





Rear iron:
Is it even ported?

 

Wow. Middle iron is junk. End irons are unported.

 

the first picture, it looks usable, but needs ton of clean up. But the other port on the other side of the middle plate, thats just unusable. The inner line is just inside of the oil seal track a little too much, especially on the bottom part. Looks like its 3mm into the seal track

 

What i tought, so then i need both front and center housing.

Atleast i have some junk irons i can use to learn how to port.

Edit: Irons came out of the T2 engine wich was in the car when i bought it, Could also add one of the Side seals had clearence of 2-3mm...

 

if that engine started up, it would be a miracle lol

 

That engine worked more or less fine, until i blew the turbo on a track weekend. It had run aprox 6 000km since last rebuild.

I'm glad i decided going NA instead of just putting on a new turbo, otherwise i would not have teared it down and figured out what horrible work had been done to it before i took over...

 

What did they port that with, a power drill?

Wow...

 

Last owner said that the engine was buildt by a guy who knew his stuff, but obviously that wasn't true.