I posted the other day about troubles I was having installing a turbo and thought i’d update on how I went about getting the sucker to fit!
As you can see from the image above, the turbot now sits quite nicely and is NOT touching the engine mount. All I did was remove the engine mount, leaving the turbo in - simply take the weight of the engine with a jack and naturally do NOT place the jack under the sump!
Once the mount was out I was left with the above(image). Oh I should note at this point that before removing the engine mount, I marked out roughly where the turbo was touching the mount and approximately how much metal would need to come out. You can just make out my scratches on the side of the mount.
I then marked out / drew an line marking how I wanted the mount to look after grinding. This was done so as to hide any mods made to the engine mount, although it won’t effect the integrity of the mount, I doubt the engineer would approve of any grinding on an engine mount.
After grinding for about 10 minutes, I was more than happy with the shape of the modified mount - now time to do a test fit (see first image). After seeing that all was well, I decided to lop one of the corners off the mount that sits on the insulator (see pic below).
I did this as before there was very little room between this area and the compressor housing - approximately 10mm and now there is a good 15 to 20mm there (see pic)
Pretty simple really - i’m really happy with the results and can now get onto finishing up the intercooler piping which hopefully i’ll have done by tomorrow night and will post my progress.
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