ISIS RS3871 install thread

[ultimateirving]

To begin my old turbo was starting to fail spitting out quite a bit of oil in the hot pipe. I bought a new one recently, and sunday me and 2 buddies started taking it all apart!

I got the ISIS rs3871 plan to be running around 18-20psi of boost.
heres some pics of the install

New turbo with mocked up intake elbow, 3in intake is so tight!


stock turbo as it sits



Here is empty engine bay, cleaned up the exhaust mounting surfaces on both the head and manifold.


last 2 pics are after install was pretty much complete.
Here is my ghetto ram air haha, Only way i could get it to hook up with what little 3" intercool pipes i had. i need to get my car down to my fabber sometime this week to get the hard pipes redone so i can fit my intake inside my hood.


Car was running today, but one of the coolant lines wasnt fully tightened and is leaking coolant, gotta tighten that up.

also need to rerun the 02 sensor signal wire to my ecu since i removed my stock 02, and plan to use the simulated narrowband from my Innovate lc1.

Was a fun experience, first time changing turbos, took longer than expected(when does it not?) didnt have to much of problems fitting it in there. Just needed a little muscle and wiggles to get it in and out.

More of my build is done now and i will report on performance soon, ill try to get to a dyno within a month or so to really compare to what my stock t28 put out.. i was at 300hp at 15psi before.. so hopefully this thing can make a bit more, without being to laggy
thanks for reading!