Yeah your insert are a genius but got the turbo out and saw there are non in the franken f23... shait.
Spent a good 15 ish hours taking turbo out, it is the worst nightmare Ive ever worked with. Im doing it home on jackstand and have gravel in my parking which results in sand over all, all tools, all parts coming down, engine room, paintwork(scratches ouch), all clothes, phone, pockets, horriblehorrible.
I wanted to try remove it without taking off any thing, so got both turbo and OEM downpipe out without removing subframe, head or even the manifold. Hade to cut downpipe in 3 slices, could not get my saw into the drivers arch so yeah, i spent most of the time just trying to cut the exhaust. The hardest part with the turbo was actually when it was all loosened, and trying to get it out of the engine bay...had to drag it out between torpedo and manifold, it was actually so hard that im thinking of removing head before I put anything back....just a nightmare.
This whole job got me thinking of just buying a new turbo with all this hard s3 turbo changes...I dont want to change turbo again after winter when i get tired of the franken really.... GT2871R any good?
Finally out, Franken F23
Top bolt there cracked, what a troublemaker lol.
Turbo i got with the car, k04/20, I see this one gots inserts, tho one is missing. And turbo has slack.
Exhaust ****** out in 3 pices