Homemade TURBOSAVER

[turbojustin]

I was thinking about buying one of these recently and got to thinking...

Why should I pay $160 for one when I can make one for under $100? Here's what I'm thinking...I could just buy an oil fliter relocation kit from Summit (under $50) and then run a "T" fitting from the filtered side of the remote mount to the turbo.

Am I on drugs or would this work? The only problem I can think of is that MAYBE the turbo line would take too much oil pressure away from the engine. Maybe I would need to run some sort of restrictor in the line that runs to the turbo.

Any opinions??

 

[ITSAV6]

hmmm

Sounds like a good idea.

 

[JOHNZAZA]

i did the same thing worked fine for me!

 

[ITSAV6]

pics

Got pics of it?

 

[JOHNZAZA]

dont have picks just did the same thing you described.

should work out fine.

 

[Black Car]

Another way is like what Red Regal T (John) did on his car.
He put a small remote filter right at the turbo.
Do a search in the lounge section for Protect Your Turbo. It was dated July 15, 2004
John posted a picture of it in the post.


Gary

 

[salvageV6]

I put a filter on my ball bearing turbo as well, relatively easy to do.

Mine is a nice small billet alum. cased, replaceable cartridge type Magnefine filter.

 

[CTX-SLPR]

Digging this up from the grave

Howdy,

I was thinking the same thing as mentioned above here, my question is how do you regulate the output of the filter so you don't swamp your turbo's oil through-put capacity, especially on a ball bearing unit? Is it a remote oil pressure regulator or a restrictor orifice?
Also to add to this, what do you need to adapt the oil filter section of the timing cover to the remote filter? Do you have to get the fitting from PTE or can you just grab a biggie adapter and put on an SBC style adapter thing? Finally size fittings are the stock and biggie filters?

Thanks,

 

[jano]

Turbo Saver

I made one for my car also. I found a remote filter pad from Canton that uses a Chevy filter & has a seperate pressure output on the top. Then I found a oil filter adapter pad from Earls. I ran 10an hose to and from the filter pad & adapter, with 6an out of the remote pad to my LT76 Q-trim. That is the way that is intended to be done & probally the easiest. Remember the whole point of doing this is if something lets go in your engine you have freshly filtered oil to your turbo.

 

[STP]

I just drilled and tapped an 1/8" NPT hole in the remote filter mount at the outlet and ran a -4 to the turbo. The size of the line will restrict the oil flow enough to the turbo. If it doesn't add a set screw to the fitting and drill it out to the desired size.

 

[CTX-SLPR]

Thanks for the responce guys! Just one last question, do any of ya'll have the part number for the oilfilter adapter that goes on the filter pad? I'm probably going to run a transadapt dual filter setup with a restrictor of somekind on one of the outlets to feed the turbo and the other outlet feeding back into the engine. Either that or I'll put a gauge on the other outlet and then drill and tap the feed line out of the distrobution rail. Since I don't think my rad will have an oil cooler and I'm also not sure about the amount of room I'll have to mount an external one this might help keep the oil temps down.

Thanks,

 

[Mark Brokaw]

anybody have any picsof this installed?