I know how to clock the turbo but when I clock it to face down it hits the tranny or w/e is directly underneath. How did u other zpi people link the pipes for the intercooler. I have no imagination when it comes to this lol any one have pics to help me out? Every time I search all I get is a bunch of random threads with zpi some where in them.

 

i take it you mean it hit the water line ive seen people bend those back closer to the block.....

 

There is no line to bend back. You should not be bending anything. You should have an adapter coming off the outlet of the compressor that curves toward the left (passenger side). Then the intercooler pipe is lined up. If you don't have this pipe then you need a 90 degree coupler most likely.

 

oh is he talking bout that lol oh yea buddy u need a jpipe on it...


travis i was thinking he meant the turbo was hitting the water lines that runs under the manifold....and yes there are people that had to bend that outta the way with zpi kits

 

mmm jpipe.....yea i hae a U pipe ill cut a side shorter and make my own jpipe maybe? lol i dono but ill pull an all nighter trying to put it in.
i just feel liek there is no room in there now.

 

the adapter coming off my turbo is straigt with no slight bend in anydirection but yea when i tryed clocking it to make the outlet face down it hit on part of the block there isnt enough room. thanks guys for the responses

 

k u need to take that adapter off the turbo and then clo9ck it and get a jpipe adapter.... not the straight one

 

No not talking about a jpipe. Its the adapter that bolts to the turbo itself.

And what water lines under the manifold. I have no idea what lines you are speaking of, cause simply I never had to bend anything. Even with a 20g upgrade, I never bent anything. And simply you shouldn't br bending lines. Then again, my intercooler pipes were not the same as the standard setup. I had ZPI route them differently back in the day. I didn't like the Jpipe so I had them clock it down and make a new pipe that ran down from there.

 

They make couplers with different degrees of bend in them. Try a 45 or a 90 degree coupler.

 

travis i come from the dsm world to us the jpipe is the adpater that has 2 bolts to bolt down to the turbo outlet....zpi pretty much labled there intercooler pipe that has a jshaped to it (the jpipe) when in the dsm world its the apadter and pipe in combination

 

The adapter should look like this one that should be bolted to the turbo. I just took a pic of a spare one I had sitting in the tool box. As you can see, it curves from it's flat mounting surface.

 

yes what travis posted....btw are your trying to clock the turbo while tis on the car if so lol thats your problem bud...

 

hey travis can i come down and enjoy some grilling we still have a foot or two of snow over here from 3 weeks ago