[s-cars] GT2871 installation

[Mark Strangways]

3071 or 3071 Hybrid ?
If it has a K24 or K26 housing then there simply should not be problems.
If it's a garret hotside machined to match the flanges.. look out.

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brian bilotti" <vinnieb2 at yahoo.com>
To: "Theodore Chen" <tedebearp at yahoo.com>; <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] GT2871 installation


> Ted,
> 
> Ah HA! Finally someone who's fessing up. I posted a
> while back and asked for anyone who had a 3071 and a
> Stromung/Stock DP. No one answered. My 3071 had the
> same issue only more like an inch toward the firewall
> and over toward the fender. I ended up having to take
> the car and get the wastegate tube butchered so it
> would work.
> 
> I'm surprised no one else had this issue...
> 
> bb
> 
> --- Theodore Chen <tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> i'm installing a GT2871 hybrid in my car.  it has
>> not been a plug-and-play
>> project.  i'll summarize later, but right now i have
>> a problem and would
>> like to see if other people with GT2871 or GT3071
>> (or other garrett hybrids)
>> have run into this.
>> 
>> i am replacing a stock turbo.  the GT2871 is now
>> bolted to the stock 
>> downpipe and RS2 exhaust manifold.  when i place the
>> wastegate and corrugated
>> flex pipe on the exhaust manifold, the other end is
>> about a half inch away 
>> from the corresponding flange on the downpipe.  it
>> is also misaligned (side 
>> to side) by a half inch.  i have tried to force them
>> to line up, without 
>> success.  the bellows doesn't seem to have enough
>> compliance.  i've been 
>> advised to use longer bolts and force the flanges to
>> line up.  i'm not sure 
>> if i can do this without damaging the flex pipe.
>> 
>> has anybody dealt with this issue?  i measured
>> between the centerline of
>> the turbo-exhaust manifold flange and the face of
>> the turbo-downpipe flange.
>> on the stock turbo, it's about 1.1".  on the GT2871,
>> it's about 1.5-1.6".
>> that extra half inch causes the downpipe to sit
>> further back, and that's
>> about the size of the gap i'm seeing at the flex
>> pipe to downpipe connection.
>> 
>> a lister told me that he's installed a number of
>> garrett hybrids, and
>> they've always lined up with the wastegate and flex
>> pipe.
>> 
>> -teddy
>> 
>> 
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