Mmmmm. Always remember that anything that is a straight fit - NEVER is. Turbo shops told me that the CT26 would bolt to my manifold too - Wrong (as you have unfortunately found out) best to have a custom manifold made for the job - or make one yourself (I know someone who can do these).
In the applications that I have seen there would be insufficient room to run a CT26 straight under the standard manifold with an adaptor in place.
The performance is worthwhile BUT there are many variables affecting how it goes in and how well it all runs.
Some things that you will need to address are-
Oil feed to turbo.
Oil drain from turbo.
Water feed to turbo.
The "clocking" of the housings (basically their orientation to each other). If you decide to change them for better piping angles you will need to modify the wastegate actuator and drill the housings to change the locating pins (you will also need to be sure that the drain hole faces in the desired direction - down).
Piping - both intake (to the turbo and intercooler) + exhaust dump all need to be revised and modified to suit.
Injectors - running the stock injectors out of juice is dead easy with the CT20 the CT26 is infinitely easier. I will go as far to say that if you don't upgrade the injectors don't bother with the CT26.
Pistons - if you are running the stockers you won't be running them for too long after getting the CT26 going.
Both TurboRA28 and I have done this conversion in VERY different ways (mine is better of course ) and I can tell you that it is not that difficult to get done. Like all worthwhile car mods it costs a fair whack of the folding stuff.
Have fun - at about 20PSI it will put a smile on your dial that looks something like this
Thu, 17 July 2003 08:03
) and I can tell you that it is not that difficult to get done. Like all worthwhile car mods it costs a fair whack of the folding stuff.
