Water lines for FM turbo (help needed)
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Ok, let me start by saying I am expecting to get flamed to no end for this post, but I've been on here for about three hours using that wonderful search feature and haven't found exactly what I'm looking for.
Basically I bought my car with a coolant reroute already having been performed. I also bought a used FM turbo kit and now I need to run the water lines, but can't figure out exactly how to hook them up.
Here's what I'm working with:
![](https://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs141.snc4/36432_729773111855_18402421_41136234_6394400_n.jpg)
![](https://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs121.snc4/36432_729773101875_18402421_41136232_5103061_n.jpg)
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Please ignore just about everything else that's not water line related, a lot of stuff is not quite hooked up or just not there.
Now from what I can tell the upper hose has been rerouted to the rear of the engine along with the heater return line. The supply line from the lower hose is running to the block, heater, and to the sensor on the intake manifold.
Where should I try to hook in these water lines or am I looking at having to pretty much re-do the routing?
What I was considering was running a t-fitting from the supply line running to the intake manifold, but I hadn't figured out where to hook in for the return.
Again, I expect to be flamed, but I definitely tried to figure this out and I'm stuck.
Basically I bought my car with a coolant reroute already having been performed. I also bought a used FM turbo kit and now I need to run the water lines, but can't figure out exactly how to hook them up.
Here's what I'm working with:
![](https://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs141.snc4/36432_729773111855_18402421_41136234_6394400_n.jpg)
![](https://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs121.snc4/36432_729773101875_18402421_41136232_5103061_n.jpg)
![](https://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs121.snc4/36432_729773106865_18402421_41136233_4854196_n.jpg)
Please ignore just about everything else that's not water line related, a lot of stuff is not quite hooked up or just not there.
Now from what I can tell the upper hose has been rerouted to the rear of the engine along with the heater return line. The supply line from the lower hose is running to the block, heater, and to the sensor on the intake manifold.
Where should I try to hook in these water lines or am I looking at having to pretty much re-do the routing?
What I was considering was running a t-fitting from the supply line running to the intake manifold, but I hadn't figured out where to hook in for the return.
Again, I expect to be flamed, but I definitely tried to figure this out and I'm stuck.
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I wasn't sure what the hell that thing was to be honest. I had considered just tapping into those lines for feed and return, but I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to be messing anything up.
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I responded to your PM with a short description of what I did. Here is also a guide on what I did based on what Tom did originally. https://www.miataturbo.net/showthrea...gracer+reroute
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So that solves that.
All that's left:
Oil return line
IAT sensor
figuring how the hell to hook up the IAC hose.
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