Re-locating oil filter. Is the position critical?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:16 pm
Simple question: If the oil-filter is re-located, is it critical to keep it level or below the stock position?
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Re-locating oil filter. Is the position critical?
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:19 pm
shouldn't matter andrew, above would be good, as when you go to change it, the oil should have already drained from it, making less mess
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:31 pm
well there is only one place in the engine bay that would be perfect for it. A horizontal plate beside the intake plenum.
I was just wondering about the drainage issue.
Thanks Clive.
I was just wondering about the drainage issue.
Thanks Clive.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:49 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:19 pm
Andrew wrote:
i see something very annoying sitting towards the front of that filter hehe
mines there too but mines further forward just enough for me to fit my hands in there to change the indicator bulb
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:45 pm
AAaah! so yours was the engine bay that I was thinking of Andrew, cause I remember a couple ppl had the filter located there.
Can't get more convenient than that!
I would be looking to mount one pretty much just behind where your charcoal cannister sits. Thanks.
Hey... what happened to those brake pad shims?
Can't get more convenient than that!
I would be looking to mount one pretty much just behind where your charcoal cannister sits. Thanks.
Hey... what happened to those brake pad shims?
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:48 pm
oh... just a question off topic,
Andrew, you've blocked off the idle bypass tube on the intake pipe.... so where/how is your car getting fed air when at idle?
Andrew, you've blocked off the idle bypass tube on the intake pipe.... so where/how is your car getting fed air when at idle?
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:16 am
NBs have it all built into the throttle body. He must be using an NA8 intake so has blocked off the unused port.
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Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:24 am
1red5 wrote:I would be looking to mount one pretty much just behind where your charcoal cannister sits. Thanks.
ummm slick, I thought you had a NA8?
Cos I know Andrew has a NB8(abcdefgh..etc)
regardless, I am in the same boat as you, so to speak.
What I am going to do is relocate my charcoal canister to a position
next to the windscreen washer reservoir.
Then fit the oil filter relocation kit where the charcoal canister was...
]Possible find out later today...
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:53 am
Yup me car, she's an NA8 like yours. Although not as fast. 
I just said that for ease of reference as I couldnt be bothered taking a photo and posting it to show where the appropriate place is.
But dude, why are you thinking or relocating the charcoal cannister?
Isn't the plate that is in between the strut tower and intake plenum wide enough to fit a relocation kit? Albeit, if you get one like Andrew's it looks a bit too wide.
I just said that for ease of reference as I couldnt be bothered taking a photo and posting it to show where the appropriate place is.
But dude, why are you thinking or relocating the charcoal cannister?
Isn't the plate that is in between the strut tower and intake plenum wide enough to fit a relocation kit? Albeit, if you get one like Andrew's it looks a bit too wide.
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:30 am
for the NBs Oil Filter Relocation Kit
http://www.thompson-automotive.com/relocation.html
Need some more Interest for them to make a batch of 50 last time i asked (early this month) they've only got 7 people interested they need around 25 people interested in it
http://www.thompson-automotive.com/relocation.html
Need some more Interest for them to make a batch of 50 last time i asked (early this month) they've only got 7 people interested they need around 25 people interested in it