Icant wait to show you guys this latest crazy assed looking menagerie I have been building to distribute water to the outside of the engine under the header. The old plan of using rubber hoses to do that (even braided) was/is only a matter of time before I strand myself with an all but unfixable breakdown on the side of the road.
So,....I build it out of steel. The problem with doing that is the tightness of the radius required to turn the lines into each inlet to keep it as close to the block as possible. So,..that forces me to give up doing it in round tube, and use square tube instead. (ever tried to get square tubing to twist and tilt to accommodate the different angles that it has to take to run along the rises and valleys?....) Let's just say that this freakin thing will be right at home with the puke troll in the looks department...good thing it'll be painted high heat black, and be under the header.
Ugly mutherphcker
is built out of 1" square tubing, cut into a bagillion chinkies, angles, plates, and various WTF's. It's just a giant jug phck.
I spent all day yesterday building this new eyesore....(and I had such high hopes for it) I'm actually fairly capable using the tig to do it, excepting all of the occasional pin holes that would show up. Seemed like everytime I stopped welding,..a little freakin pinhole would form. And it didn't matter what I did,..that piece of sht kept right on coming back.....I must've spent hours chasing pinholes.
That brings me around to today at 4:47 AM....I wake up to pee, and end up rebuilding the thing (in my head). I decided,...(right before falling back to sleep at 6) that I was gonna try and make it all out of -10 rigid hard line aluminum. When I get up, I go down there and check that hair-brained scheme for plausibility....
It's pure 100% Hair brained......No freakin way.
So,..that puts me back to finishing the fugly steel dog leg the next time I go back down there.
The one good thing this will allow me to do is get rid of the 1/4" thick plate that I had to add to the rear header. And that will allow the hot side to fit together better.
The other concern is the oil/water that is showing up in the downpipe......not at the front part that comes immediately out of the turbo, that is all coloring chocolate brown just as you'd expect,...but further downstream it turns to oily black soot
The exhaust primaries are clean, the charge tube is clean,..there was a small spot of wet oil sitting at the bottom of the turbine outlet..I must have a bearing seal that is leaking ( just what you'd expect from an oil pump that's probably showing 100 p.s.I. of oil pressure to that turbo inlet) It's restricted,...but it is a 280.00 chinee turbo.. might just be that I start collecting these things.
The scruff is evident..time to see the barber of seville