Hey guys I had a question. Most of the intercooler kits for my car come with a pipe running towards the driver side, installing my turbo the way I want will cause the opening from the compressor to be pointing at the passanger side requiring a nice 90* bend to get it pointed back over to the driver side. What I was wondering is has anyone taken their compressor cover off and had the outlet cut off flipped 180 and re welded on? I haven't thought it through to much but I think it would work the only thing I can see keeping it from not working is the size of the turbine housing. Thoughts ideas?

sounds like a pretty time consuming task for something that could be avoided by making your outlet go towards the driver side.

Also you could get leaks by doing that cutting and welding which would be bad.



If it were me Id get a housing/manifold that goes the right direction of the I/C piping.

I know quite a few people modify compressor covers like that. The only issue I can think of is the possibility that the outlet is not symmetrical so might not match up too well when flipped. I don't have it in front of me, so just take a look at it. If so cutting it off and fabricating another elbow may work much better.

The turbine housing being so big could be a problem with fitting the pipe across depending on how your manifold positions the turbo.


When I go with an intercooler I'll probably go with an air water, or a top bottom flow with both outlets on the pass side to avoid it.

What is the car and why can't you just run the IC plumbing the other direction?

It is going on a 93 Talon. Most of the intercooler kits for our cars have the inlet on the driver side and the outlet on the passanger side. I attached a picture of how one guy did it in his car, I actually purchased his setup. I just figured that by flipping the outlet it would make things a little easier, because I know I have seen it done on some other turbos I was just seeing if it was a possibility with ours.