been working on my turbo blade set up but ive come across some which troubles me..

the turbo oil feed !!!

when do I tap in to the engine for the turbos oil feed ?

im ok with the oil return because i just return that to the sump. but where who I get a pressurised oil feed from ??

thanks Alan

if an early blade there is a big bung that the oil pressure switch sits in, unbolt this tap the sensor hole to a sensible size insert a tee here.

Ok. Thanks for your reply. Any chance you could upload a pic of yours please.

Failing that. Did you custom make a t piece or buy something off the shelf ??

Cheers Alan

Grrrr

Mine runs an oil less turbo so not required

However I do run my accusump via a 1/2" fitting into the bung and with a Tee for the oil pressure gauge let into the hose, the bung is ~3/4" thread and is directly into the main oil gantry, it just winds out on a metric fine thread.

If I remember I will take a picture tomorrow.

Also if fitting a turbo I recommend you add an oil cooler, my oil turned black after every track day so it was getting really hot. I used a kit for a crossflow engine, you just need to cut the blade engines cooler bolt in half and weld to the crossflow item to make a suitable adaptor.

You can always tap into the take off plate or buy one off ebay with extra 1/8" NTP threads pre drilled, something like OIL COOLER ADAPTER SANDWICH PLATE 3/4unf | eBay








Regards Mark

[Edited on 18/5/12 by mark chandler]

How big an oil cooler you guys using. I'm thinking af a small ten row but don't want the oil to get too cold. This engine ran fine on the road but since then it's going to be more track orientated

[Edited on 1/6/12 by welderman]