I'm on ur trak breakin mah car!!!
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From: BFE
if I had my own mill it wouldn't be a problem, unfortunately this will be a favor. but I might try to squeeze out a few sets. I don't plan on mine being nearly as pretty either. basically I'm just going to have a block of aluminum with some holes and essential cut outs.
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Um... is your turbo water cooled? Mine is... just thought I'd ask.
I don't think I need to explain why because I know your brain has either already gone there, or it's on its way... and you'd be blowing steam out your tailpipe at idle as a symptom if that was the cause. I still can't grasp how that much pressure made it into your coolant system before your radiator cap could vent it. I'm pretty sure that whatever caused this was compounded by a bad radiator cap.
Looking closer at the second pic... isn't that the wastegate line being pinched between the compressor outlet coupler and the radiator? You know, those couplers swell up under boost... and perhaps it pinched off the wastegate line causing you overboost like a whore? I know that's like as likely as me giving birth, but that line looks seriously pinched and the car is off/cold. I can see visual evidence of the coupler elbow stretching because there's a mark on it where it touched the radiator, and it appears as though the clamp has shifted at the top. I'd either re-route that vacuum line, or for airflow reasons... buy a mandrel 90° elbow that's the size of the compressor outlet, and horse-dick a pipe and weld it to the other end so it matches up with your IC pipe. Of course, a shorter reducer coupling would work as well and with less effort, but if you have access to tools to do that, it would be better. Short couplers are always better.
I still can't wrap my brain around it. Where did all that pressure come from, and why didn't you bathe your engine bay in ethylene glycol long before stretching your radiator. Pressure test your coolant system when it's all back together.
PS: this is a horse-dick in action in case you didn't know what I was talkin' about...
I don't think I need to explain why because I know your brain has either already gone there, or it's on its way... and you'd be blowing steam out your tailpipe at idle as a symptom if that was the cause. I still can't grasp how that much pressure made it into your coolant system before your radiator cap could vent it. I'm pretty sure that whatever caused this was compounded by a bad radiator cap.
Looking closer at the second pic... isn't that the wastegate line being pinched between the compressor outlet coupler and the radiator? You know, those couplers swell up under boost... and perhaps it pinched off the wastegate line causing you overboost like a whore? I know that's like as likely as me giving birth, but that line looks seriously pinched and the car is off/cold. I can see visual evidence of the coupler elbow stretching because there's a mark on it where it touched the radiator, and it appears as though the clamp has shifted at the top. I'd either re-route that vacuum line, or for airflow reasons... buy a mandrel 90° elbow that's the size of the compressor outlet, and horse-dick a pipe and weld it to the other end so it matches up with your IC pipe. Of course, a shorter reducer coupling would work as well and with less effort, but if you have access to tools to do that, it would be better. Short couplers are always better.
I still can't wrap my brain around it. Where did all that pressure come from, and why didn't you bathe your engine bay in ethylene glycol long before stretching your radiator. Pressure test your coolant system when it's all back together.
PS: this is a horse-dick in action in case you didn't know what I was talkin' about...