can i block this?(turbo)

[mnnice]

alright ive seen this on a few talons in my area. now i still some what new to the whole turbo scene. so please no hate if this is stupid:) but the one port in the very center. ive seen it blocked but i dont even know where it goes to? it would be pointed towards the radiator and heres a picture
(this is a small 16g)
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm162/freeskier2889/car/IMG_0310.jpg

thanks for the help

[Halon]

That's a coolant line port. I feel like that's the one that goes to the big water pipe that runs along the front of the block.

I've heard of people running water cooled turbos without water lines hooked up before. Some say it's fine, others say it's bloody murder. I personally wouldn't run it without the water lines. If it was designed to be water cooled, I'd personally run water lines.

[mnnice]

i would like to run it. but can i buy an aftermarket line? and where does it go to off that? my cars waiting on this:( so close yet so far away

[Halon]

find someone parting out a car and buy the lines. Is there a line coming off the backside, 180* out, from that one? You should have a total of 4 lines. Oil lines (1 on top, 1 on bottom). Coolant lines (1 on front, 1 on back).

[mnnice]

yeah the only one im missing is the one on the front. does it go down to the oil cooler?

[Halon]

I thought that one went to the big water pipe on the front of the block. And the one on the backside went to the thermo housing. It's been awhile, so i don't remember exactly.

[mnnice]

i wish i knew someone with a completely stock car haha. but thank you!

[4g63tcrazy]

Halon is correct. That front hole is for a coolant line that comes off the waterpipe. The one in the back goes to a port on the thermostat housing. I have always ran coolant through 16g's but on my colt I just ran oil through it since it was a budget project and I couldnt find my old lines. Turbo held up fine, but I would definatly recommend running coolant through it.

[1g_talon]

to op. if you run the line behind the hole that you are going to plug, then you'll have to get a water line for it. it's basically water line in and out. if you pluged that hole i suggest you plug the hole behind it too.

the down and upper hole is for oil cool and both the back and front are for water coolant. the front hole goes down under and back of the turbo to the coolant pipe. the coolant pipe is big and silver about the size of a half dollar size in diameter running to the water pump in front of the block. you cant miss it. the coolant pipe should have a tube stick out for that line to front of turbo. connect the hole in front of turbo to that tube stick.

correct me if i'm wrong.

if i were you, i'd run the watercool lines. that's how they were invented anyways.

hope this helps

[Goat Blower]

Yeah, you can run it without them, but like the post above me, you need to block the the other line from the therm housing as well. It'd be a lot easier to just add the missing coolant line, I'm sure Mitsu can get it for you in a few days.