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It was common knowledge at one stage - maybe not anymore judging by the response. Most recent one I can think was a mate's dyno room probably 5 years ago, cursing a customer's twink that made a nice mess on the floor and walls. Big lever arm on a small NPT, BSPT, BSPP, whatever, it doesn't really matter.......poor wording on my part.

I'd be avoiding those brass adaptors, except for very temporary use. Once you add vibes, weight of that, plus sensors, the tapered threads form a nice, fail here point.

Tried John Tripp? (07) 3285 7320. Not sure if he has sub 1mm, but he's made one-offs for us in the past as required.

"Coming to Australia".....you're a bit late! Unless you're Rip van Winkle, the EPA for the last 30 years, at least in NSW, have demonstrated that modification, as what is performed over there to registered cars, is illegal. A proper race car is unregistered or on a permit at best - nil effect locally - and suspect the same there.

Ummm, SX-E bested EFR each time!

Adrian at Garage48 seems to be a glutton for punishment and does a fair bit of this if you're anywhere near Sydney. While back, I heard, he subbed out the tedious cutting exercise to someone - and they managed to turn a lot of tube to scrap by making an angle on one face and a straight cut on the other!

Horsies are more powerful than killer wasps naturally! Old mate should go for an investment cast block as per proper practice, ha. There's that many donkeys with cnc mills turning out engines with superfluous casting features carried over and a few with poor alignments, I would be hesitant to lay hard currency down. A pet hate is the use of billet in the automotive world, but that's a losing battle, might as well call it, dumb cee you next Tuesday, aerospace grade.☺️

Ha, the prosecutor's line! ☺️ Surprise, surprise, story is online even, patch Do agree, this bloke (in the US?) would be better off biting the bullet rather than trying to resurrect crap.

Bores being perfect might be a bit of an overstatement! I'd be pretty dubious about welding this, the last of the guys who I would've trusted even attempting this repair used to operate a backyard furnace in the 70s and the last of the partners died about 20 years ago.....all the good ones here were ex-railway workshop it seemed. If the thing is anyway salvageable and you're desperate, machining, tapping and gluing might introduce far fewer stresses. One Ayrton Senna, won a championship, running just such a repaired engine which had a serious "alternator failure" at one stage.

One thing to consider with EM, you'll be lucky to garner any coverage, beyond a few seconds even if you "win". It's ok, if everything is off your own bat, trying to offset your costs with a bit of sponsorship on the other hand, might be a hard sell. The tour participants probably see more TV time.

Would expect you'd be looking for something beyond 10mm - a 12mm or 1/2" DI, if this is a moderate performance application. Chinese probably can't stuff up something as simple as this you'd hope either - and if you go to the usual suspects like H&F, probably the most likely country of origin you'll find! One thing I will say, get an analogue one, digital are horrible things!

Third parties still involved in these low volume turbos? How do they pronounce aluminium in Qld too, or was a US education involved?☺️ Hard to tell how deep the first defect is. When making bellmouths in the past, toolmarks were erased with a quick pass with paper, might be a bit of a trick to get between those lips! Perhaps a thin stick with some fine emery might have fixed that first housing. I'd probably worry more about abrasive grit getting past aftermarket air filters than those tiny bits though. I'd think with likely flood coolant on a small production run, rather than a 1 or 2 off, and css, there's not going to be a huge amount of heat at the insert cutting this stuff. I see all the multiple drilled and tapped holes on the BW housings, doesn't strike me as a good idea to use non heat treated material, even if it does save a few cents. The B1 frame ones I've glanced at, do seem to have that fine grain usually associated with hardening of 356, although sometimes the deeper you go into a casting or even wrought bar, the gummy bits appear.

Oil in a pump would probably make it dangerous goods for airfreight. If you went the ebay lucky dip route, some flare caps and tape would make it oil tight, but guess most sellers are lazy, otherwise one of the US >Au container shippers shouldn't have an issue with a leaky box, but that will probably end up costing more with port charges and all the BS. If you discount the chinese brands, MSCN will have -16 hose. Fittings will be eye-watering even with discount, but cheaper than Earls at Silverwater! If you're getting a pump from the States and a load of that stuff also, might look at https://www.anplumbing.com/....at least you should avoid the 10% surcharge from the usual suspects.

Yeah, I'd think I'd choose one or the other method. It's not as if there's more than a few thou clearance in a pump - a good one at least - if there's a mismatch in a drive ratio I could see a hose either being pressurised or collapsing under suction. One of the advantages of an external pump, you can spin it up with an battery drill to get oil pressure, disadvantage, you can throw a belt if things come loose or the usual stone in the kittylitter happens. Seeing you want to put the tank in the boot, I might use -16 feed too.

Short of buying an ebay bit of junk that a part of a valve spring has passed through, not sure there's too much wrong with most pumps now. Barnes used to be considered one of the best pumps made, back when, mate has an Autoverdi on his car that is very nice and there's a Petersen, scavenge only pump on the car here. Guess your biggest decision will be a gear v lobe pump. Running a pressure stage to the stock pump, seems a bit curious to me. The sump here accommodates the stock pump, a flange sandwiches the 3mm al sheet sump and bolts on where the oil pick-up strainer would attach, male dash 12 welded onto that feeding from the oil tank.....and bob's your aunty.