I'm looking for a list of places I can tap relatively easily to feed oil to my turbo. I've thought of the oil cooler already, however I'd really like to avoid having to run a line that long. Are there any other area's I could tap? Anything I can do with a couple of fittings instead of drilling/tapping?

 

Is the engine already in the car? Turbo engines have a feed line on the front end plate. You could tap the Oil filter pedistal. Check out this page and look at how they tap the pedistal for oil and put a return line to the front cover. This page is the installation of the Camden Supercharger, but the oiling could be duplicated for other uses.

http://www.camdensuperchargers.com/index.php?pag=305

 

It's an N/A engine. I've got a TII front cover for return, just need a feed for the turbo. Thanks for the link.

 

Would drilling and tapping it as they have described in the link flow enough for the turbo's? Anybody else have any suggestions?

 

Well I drilled and tapped a hole in the 'top' of the top banjo bolt on the oil cooler...
Works great and if for some reason you want to take the turbo off, all you have to do is replace the bolt and thats it

 

That sounds easy enough, i've got quite an array of spare bolts laying around. What kind of hose did you use, SS or rubber? And what kind of requirements must that hose fit as far as pressure?

 

I used braided stainless steel for the line, no idea what pressure its rated to, but i'm sure as hell it's alot more than any oil pump is going to put out into my engine.

 

Any idea what sizes you used and how long of a run? Also, how much did that run you costwise?

 

Several locations to tap...

I had a rad shop put a bung on the oil cooler. Since it was in for repair, it was convenient for me to have this done. Also quite cheap.

You can simply use a T fitting where the stock pressure sensor bolts up. Very easy.

As mentioned, you can tap on of the oil cooler banjo bolts and install a nipple. I thought of this about a month after I finished Tina, and really like this idea. That way, if you screw it up, just replace the bolt.

You can tap the front iron were the drivers side dowl ends. There is a flat spot for this purpose.

You can tap the front cover oil passage. Sounds like a pain in the *** to me.

Also, you can get one of those oil pedistole gauge adapters and take your oil supply from a spare port...

In the same sense, and oil filter relocation kit can be hacked up as well...

Worst case, you can install a T fitting in the oil cooler line...But that's a dumb idea.

 

Size? Hrmm.. no idea what they call this size I got, i'm sure theres a good name for it, but it's 10mm OD if that helps. It wont REALLY matter because the size of the turbo inlet is only a pin ***** size.

How long? It's 1.2m long not including fittings.

Cost $90(Australian) all up including 3 fitting's.. (one on each end + one adaptor for the hole I tapped into the banjo bolt head.

PS- Thanks for that great suggestion Aaron cake!

 

Bringing this one back....

Aaron, why do you think a T fittting on the oil cooler lines is not good, it seems just as easy as T fitting on the sender location which you recommended.