Just looking for some pics of everyone water cooled turbo setup and how they routed everything, I have a t3/t04e on it's way and am watercooling it. Please post your pics if you have a watercooled turbo, I have seen the pictures of expensive ones with stainless steel lines, but lets see some other ones and opinions of where the best location would be to tap into the coolant for the turbo. TIA and hopefully this helps a lot of other people who are not yet watercooled to want to do it.
~Jeffo


Like my tail lights? Get used to looking at them.

I dont' have a pic but theres the hard coolant line that runs from the thermostat housing on the left. It goes in front of the head strait across and then down on the right. It then branches off into 2 lines. I used one for coolant into the turbo and one for out of the turbo to drain it.

did that make any sense??

Here are pics of Brian's setup... Pretty nice and the same path that I am currently following.

http://forums.2gnt.com/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=8&topic_id=68157&mesg_id=68157&listing_type=search#68328

Here is my setup. It might be a little more elaborate than what your looking for, but it works very well.

What would the easiest way be to just tap the lines like that without spending tons of money on SS line?
~Jeffo


Like my tail lights? Get used to looking at them.

BOOSTED ECLIPSE can you make a write out for this purty please:love

wow, that looks pretty simple

Originally posted by 96rs-t
wow, that looks pretty simple

NBo shit it's simple. all your doing is putting a turbo in between a coolant line. whooooo :shrug

it looks good boosted... you have alot of time on your hands.


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Has anyone done a setup with rubber hoses? Anyone else have any other pictures of their setups? Also, A write up would be nice for a future reference for anyone else wanting to do this. Do you remember everything that you did BOOSTED ECLIPSE???? If not, when I get my turbo, I'm gonna be water cooling it, so I will do a write up on it.
~Jeffo


Like my tail lights? Get used to looking at them.

Originally posted by powellds
Has anyone done a setup with rubber hoses? Anyone else have any other pictures of their setups? Also, A write up would be nice for a future reference for anyone else wanting to do this. Do you remember everything that you did BOOSTED ECLIPSE???? If not, when I get my turbo, I'm gonna be water cooling it, so I will do a write up on it. ~Jeffo Like my tail lights? Get used to looking at them.

You can do it with rubber lines with no problem. If you use rubber hose I would suggest using a high quality brand. I will try to do a right up if I get the time, but in the mean time if someone needs help with their setup I would be glad to help out.

i dont have pics but i did it with rubber coolant hoses from my local auto store. works just the same, never had a prb with them either.

I used Gates red rubber hose on mind. I ran it the same way tim ran his in the diagram. Works great

Hey Tim96rs, you gotta pic of your setup? I was thinking of using rubber hoses for mine. If you don't have pics, do you have a parts list of what you bought to do it? Lemme know.
~Jeffo



Top end: Ported and polished head, REV stainless Valves, Crower stage 2 cams, Crower valve springs and titanium retainers, SBI rockers and lashers, Fidanza Cam gears, ARP Headstuds.

Bottom end: JE 8.8:1 pistons, Eagle H-beam rods, Balance rotating assembly, Clevitte Rod and Main bearings, Melling oil pump, Crank scraper, carter water pump.

Ignition: MSD Coil, MSD wires, NGK iridium spark plugs.

Bolt ons: MP 60mm throttle body, ported and polished intake manifold gasket matched, Magnaflow catback, high flow cat, Unorthodox UDP, Ground wire kit.

Suspension: Eibach Ground control coilovers, KYB AGX gas adjustable struts, Strut tower bars.

Drivetrain: SPEC stage 4 clutch

Body/Interior: VIS Evo carbon fiber hood, stock red body, stock black 16" rims. Ractive carbon shift boot and ebrake boot, Ractive carbon blue gauges (boost, oil press., volts, and cluster, blue underseat lights.

Installing at the moment: Garrett t3/t04e stage 2 water cooled turbo, RC 440cc injectors, Vortech SFMU, HKS SSQV BOV, Star FMIC and piping, Star manifold, 3" Downpipe, Tial 38mm WG, Walbro 255 fuel pump, Missing link.

I have some pics of my setup give me ur email and i'll send them to you.

Here's the pics from eclipse96rs_n's setup. Rubber lines and the SS protectant sleeves. Thanks for letting me post these man.





~Jeffo



Top end: Ported and polished head, REV stainless Valves, Crower stage 2 cams, Crower valve springs and titanium retainers, SBI rockers and lashers, Fidanza Cam gears, ARP Headstuds.

Bottom end: JE 8.8:1 pistons, Eagle H-beam rods, Balance rotating assembly, Clevitte Rod and Main bearings, Melling oil pump, Crank scraper, carter water pump.

Ignition: MSD Coil, MSD wires, NGK iridium spark plugs.

Bolt ons: MP 60mm throttle body, ported and polished intake manifold gasket matched, Magnaflow catback, high flow cat, Unorthodox UDP, Ground wire kit.

Suspension: Eibach Ground control coilovers, KYB AGX gas adjustable struts, Strut tower bars.

Drivetrain: SPEC stage 4 clutch

Body/Interior: VIS Evo carbon fiber hood, stock red body, stock black 16" rims. Ractive carbon shift boot and ebrake boot, Ractive carbon blue gauges (boost, oil press., volts, and cluster, blue underseat lights.

Installing at the moment: Garrett t3/t04e stage 2 water cooled turbo, RC 440cc injectors, Vortech SFMU, HKS SSQV BOV, Star FMIC and piping, Star manifold, 3" Downpipe, Tial 38mm WG, Walbro 255 fuel pump, Missing link.