14cm exhaust housing

[CRWilliams]

Anybody looking to change their exhaust housing, I bought a new 14cm wastegated housing from High Tech Turbo in Utah. It is a new Holset housing and includes the housing and wastegate for about $380. Needless to say alot cheaper than Banks and an original Holset housing, also their tech. support was outstanding.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

How much hassle to install, and do you have any early impressions, especially in towing situations. Does it require much modification of the stock downpipe to install?

 

[CRWilliams]

It was a piece of cake to install. I don't remember the name of the guy I talked to but he pretty much walked me through the install on the phone. One thing I did though was to route the pressure line straight from the impeller housing to the wastegate. The guy at high tech said to simply route it to a port on the intake manifold. If you look at the impeller housing on the boss that the plate is riveted to you will see an area that is drilled and tapped on the stock waste-gated housings, ala 1994 and newer. If you don't see it look at a newer one and you'll see what I'm talking about. I hate things running up over the top of my engine, I also rerouted the vacuum lines and repositioned the vacuum solenoid for the Pacbrake for the same reason. The down-pipe wasn't a bug deal for me because I was installing the Pacbrake at the same time. High Tech said that he has yet to see someone that couldn't just push the pipe back the 3/4 of an inch. BTW if you do intend to do this and install a turbo mounted brake I would suggest the Pacbrake. It fit perfectly between the turbo and firewall, I am sure the Jacobs wouldn't fit and I seriously doubt the BD brake would fit. I haven't seen a BD but I did look at a Jacobs and there is no way it would fit. This is getting long so I'll stop there, write if you have any other questions. I am going to see if I can borrow a dig. camera and take some pictures of the hoses and some other stuff.

 

[Bob Beauchaine]

I've been running a 14cm Banks wastegated housing for 6 years and I'm very happy with it. With my other mods it's quick to spool up and my egt's are not too high. I am also running a BD exhaust brake and it's working just fine. I had my down pipe redesigned to eliminate the 2 90 degree bends and now have 45s instead. All in all I think the 14cm housing is an excellat performer.

Happy trails.