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Should I install the turbo before or after it's in the engine bay? With the exhaust up-pipe? Or just the oil and coolant lines?

 

I have a lift and extra hands if it matters.

 

--Ed

install the uppipe and the turbo before dropping the engine in. If not, its a pain to try and hook up all of the coolant lines and oil lines with it in the car. Then drop it in and bolt the downpipe onto the turbo.

put the motor together as much as you can before dropping it in!

 

all of me experiences the motor comes out or goes in withthe turbo and cross pipe installed. especially with the little bracket that mounts to the head, and the oil return line, much easier to install before dropping the motor

 

even if the intake is not installed yet, you can put on the turbo anyway

 

once the motor is in, slide the downpipe onto the turbo studs before drawing up the bellhousing all the way. the downpipe itself mounts to the side of the tranny, so long as its mounted to the tranny before the motor was taken out, it will align right up when the motor goes in

 

if you never had installed amotor yet, place a jack under the tranny so the engine studs can align without the motor mounts catching the frame