Tomorrow I'm gonna start changing turbo , gt spec headers and Harvey up pipe , injectors , ful service what order best to do it in? Can I take off and put on headers and up pipe in 1? Any help be great cheers rob

 

remove the turbo,change headers and up pipe together then refit turbo.do injectors before or afterwards doesnt realy matter. good luck

 

You don't need to remove the turbo. Unbolt the down pipe. Remove the lambda sensor then unbolt the headers from the heads and up pipe(heat shields first and can be z **** lol). Unbolt the up pipe from the turbo. You now need to jack the off side of the engine up a few inches to get the up
Pipe out.
The hardest part with the injectors is removing the guards.

Hope you have fun.

 

so to change a turbo u dont need to remove the old turbo?? lol

 

Ooooops. Didnt see the turbo bit lol.

So yes take off your turbo, up pipe, headers and injectors. and replace in the opposite order.

 

lol

 

P.S.
Tonight you need to spray every nut and bolt you want to remove with gt30/other penetrating oil.

 

Bit late il see what happens it's minus 9 apparently lol what about ky jelly lol? This gonna be fun today lol any one wanna help lots of tea and coffee lol

 

Apply WD40 or similar, night before AND on the morning before you start.
Before starting warm engine at T.O for five mins max.
Approach each nut as a one off chance. Properly fitting and square socket.
Shock load tight fasteners and only use spanners where a square fit is inaccessible.
You cannot usually remove or fit the uppipe assembled to the headers.
Here is our standard uppipe guide.

Good luck.

Swapping uppipe.

Drop the D/P.
Undo the bolts, headers to uppipe.
Loosen but do not remove three nuts on each header to cylinder head.
Now undo the nuts holding the uppipe. 5# in total if they are all there.
Remove U/P.
If it will not come loosen the two bolts, collector to the rest of headers/cross pipe and it will fly out.
Alternative : Least preferred option.
If it will not come out with lots of twisting, slack engine mountings. Do not totally undo. Jack engine and pipe drops out.
Try to get pipe out first before undoing mountings for engine.

 

Right everything off how do u get gt specs to fit can't line them up ahhh my elbows r killing. Cheers harvey

 

What doesnt line up? If i remember they have a slide joint accross the middle

 

If your front u brace is still fitted you'll probably have to grind some of the lip off.

 

Yep, grinder time

 

or take it off and leave it off. Thats what ive done

 

Nope I got it on good old hammer lol. Tomorrow just up pipe and turbo then tues my inlet tract be here hopefully . So getting there slowly also changing hoses to samco s . Are u ment to have copper washer both sides of the oil feeds

 

Also got a dent in bottom of downpipe so crushed a bit will this cause much of a prob

 

You have removed the front subframe???

How big of a dent is this? I'd imagine the worse case would be affecting scavenging of exhaust gases costing you a very small amount of spool and power. But it'd have to be fairly big to be noticeably affecting spool and power i should think

 

That's what I thought it's slightly flat from bumps what u think should I worry about or leave it? Any mappers about known any probs from slightly dented downpipe ?

 

Post a pic

 

Yep the front U frame isnt at all even fitted to the likes of the spec c. Its there to meet euro crash ratings etc. Removeing it give for a much better front end feel in my opinion

 

Can I send someone a pic from my phone as no good with photobucket lol.

 

I thought the Spec C's had them but in a lighter form. Either way, fair play to you

tempted me too

 

Mel u think it anything to worry about the dented downpipe ?

 

very easy to remove. 6 or 8 bolts. Do a search on here. Theres lots of info on it.

 

I should think to much of a problem. Hard to say without seeing it. Send a pic to my phone

 

I know they're pretty easy to remove, just thought they served as some form as crash protection and structual support

 

Yes for crash protection. Thats its purpose.

 

Sorry to crash the thread but i am replacing my std td04 and uppipe. Can i remove them as one piece? Then assemble decat uppipe and vf24 and fit as one piece?

 

No is the simple answer. Remove it in parts and re-fit in parts

 

guys uppipe fitted and changed few hose,s and catch can plumbed in. About an hour of fitting the turbo we couldnt get the bottom hose (oil return) on bottom of turbo what a pain. is there an art to it?i got it attached to block still trying to lowering the turbo on to it.how the hell do they get them clips on it after to lol?