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Originally Posted by CorvetteJohn
If everything is working and it were mine I would just drive it for 6 months. What's the old saying if it ain't broke don't break it. Those fitting in brass look like they came from someplace like Lowe's plumbing department. I know that connection does not meet your standards and I understand that but there comes a time when you have to turn the key and just enjoy the drive. My son is very particular about his vehicles and the slightest scratch and there off to the body shop. I told him one time to forget it because at 100 feet and 100 MPH nobody will see them. I don't know about Florida but here nobody has ever come up to my car and jacked it up to look at the underside.
That's not to say if it is a poor place for those lines to be run then by all means you will have to figure something out.
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Heck, I'm not in any real hurry to do this, but I would like to know what I am dealing with so I can get what I need prior to taking it apart.
I found an older pic showing how Chris Harwood had rearranged that plumbing to fit around that Aeromotive fuel pump he mounted back there.
Don't you just LOVE how he had the output fuel line from the fuel pump routed right above the *hot* turbo waste gate on the right? Of course, then Aaron Scott mounted the second waste gate on the left, and then that put the input fuel line directly above that new gate.
In any event, it looks like that oil plumbing going TO the turbos includes a check valve for each of them.
I went back through some OLD pictures and found one of the plumbing right after Greg at Antivenom installed the turbos for me.
So it appears that the only thing on the actual plumbing that Chris Harwood changed was that AN angled fitting that replaced the original one on there. Everything else was as it came installed from the STS kit, I believe.
But no, as long as it is all working, I'm not in any hurry to do anything about it. At this point it's just one of those nagging perfectionist things that will be in the back of my mind.
Besides, I've noticed that while I was doing a bit of wrenching on the exhaust system yesterday, that now my left elbow is beginning to give me some problems. Just might be that my wrenching days are numbered... Or at least greatly limited in scope.