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Originally Posted by IheartSTI
Scott, you were telling me that every 90 degree bend equals like 12 feet in line. Do you thing this would be the same for the avcs to head to turbo? I bought -4 lines and all the fittings but I used no 90 degree bent line or fittings. It does not like as clean as I want it to but I am willing to sacrifice form for function. What do you think?
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Don't quote me on the specifics of the 90deg fittings... I just know they're supposed to be pretty bad. I was told to avoid the 90+ deg bends by Greg Benson a while back when discussing my oil cooler routing. But again, that was "avoid", not "never use". IIRC, I'm still using one 90deg fitting in my oil cooler setup because it made routing the lines a million times easier.
As far as the oil feed to the turbo, I would guess it's not quite as critical. Not to say the oil feed to the turbo isn't critical, I just don't think it's all that high-flow because there's a big restriction at the bearing, no? -4AN lines are pretty big for the turbo oil feed, like 1/4" right? I bet a single 90deg wouldn't cause any issues. In fact, don't the stock lines use a banjo fitting on the block? A banjo has got to be much worse than a nice 90deg AN fitting.