Project WDE Talon

[Blackmount]

Tulane. I have the proper feed line ready to go... the one u run from ur oil filter housing

[BigTyla]

I don't like feeds from the OFH. A lot of people have oil pressure problems from that and I have no idea why they convert to OFH. Running an inline filter would be best if you're really concerned about unfiltered oil.

[Blackmount]

I thought that was the line you were talking about. oops.

[BigTyla]

I might finally have time to work on the car some this weekend. I have to remove the turbo and take off the exhaust housing to get the oil fitting off the turbo (it's a 90 degree fitting and my wrench can't fit in the narrow space between the exhaust and compressor housings to loosen it. Shouldn't take too long to do. Hopefully everything is fine with the turbo and it doesn't smoke.

Car will be driveable when I replace the shifter lever bushings and bleed the brakes. Right now there is considerable side-to-side slop near the top of the lever and I think some missing hardware and worn bushings are to blame. Might have a helper come over to pump the brake pedal for me.

[AdamVR4]

Let us know if you find anything satisfying (worn out) in the shifter. I installed some bushings at the base of my shifter assembly last night... It was cramped, but I don't have sausage fingers, so i did it while removing very little.

[BigTyla]

Let us know if you find anything satisfying (worn out) in the shifter. I installed some bushings at the base of my shifter assembly last night... It was cramped, but I don't have sausage fingers, so i did it while removing very little.

Sure thing. I know a lot of people get sold bushings for the shifter base but I'm just going to replace the ones in the lever for now. The previous owner installed a short throw shifter and the side-to-side play is so bad I have to really put some force on the shifter to get it to go into first.

[DocWalt]

FWIW I had the shifter base bushings in my VR4 and that made a good difference, but hard mounting the lever bracket on top of the trans made the biggest difference.

[TonyM]

Trying to avoid a front mount at all costs. 1Gs are so prone to overheating with the lack of space available up front to cool both the radiator and the front mount. Plus I'd like to go for a sleeper look. Maybe when I decide to be more bold later on I'll go the front mount route, but with E85 it won't even be necessary on a 16G.

Go air-to-water . . . that's where it's at!

Nice project and good work!

[BigTyla]

Go air-to-water . . . that's where it's at!

Nice project and good work!

Funny you say that because that was something I was looking into. I'm going to have to reevaluate everything now since I'm putting E85 off.

[BigTyla]

Foiled again.

Apparently the previous owner thought it would be prudent to tap the stock oil feed location on the head to a much larger size than stock. I realized this when I began installing the oil feed line. The banjo bolt just slid right into the hole without even contacting the threads! Nothing I can do to remedy this so I have to return these stock parts and make a smaller oil feed line. Needless to say I'm pretty pissed.

Adam - you said you ran an unrestricted -4 AN for your turbos? I was thinking of going -3 AN. I was able to confirm that my 16G does in fact have a restrictor built into the oil feed hole, but I still want to make sure I keep pressure behind that restrictor low.