Ok, so here's the deal.
We have two plates that look like the flanges on the stock oil return lines. Drilled out for the bolts on ether side, and with a 3/8" hole threaded for a 3/8" by -10 AN adaptor. On one "flange" we will be fitting a 45* El and on the other "flange" will get a straight fitting. Thus it should look exactly like the factory line, only incredibly bulky. (the -10 line is HUGE, and so are the -10 fittings)
We were going to make them last night, but Matt seems to think they won't look good on your engine (I showed him the pics) if he cuts them on a bandsaw.
So he took the oil line with him to work today to CNC a couple plates out, and then we can thread into those. They should be really sweet.
But now after sleeping a night on a few decisions that were made last night I have a few concerns, or questions.
In general:
1) We are making the plates out of ~1/2" thick aluminum. I'm unsure how that aluminum will hold up on the bottom of the turbo. Will it get too hot and have problems? ie: cause a leak from thermal expansion or something that would equally suck? It would be nice to have aluminum as that's what the fittings are. Similar metals threading into each other to seal on the threads = better than dissimilar metals... IMHO...
Jesse:
2) how do you want to heat shield the braided line? It's going to need something or the rubber inside will discombobulate and then these lines will be fubar... So. What do you want to wrap it in, or should I just send the line back uncovered(nude
) and you can put whatever heat shielding on that you feel is neccesary, and you can color match it or chrome it, or whatever you feel the need to do.
That's all for now, but since everyone can see the plan now if there are any other snafoo's that I forgot or don't see just speak up.
kk, peace.
) and I believe that I have plans Saturday night, but I could drop the line off on Sunday and then pick up my turbos if that works for you. dork.