AVO Turbo Kit Owners Topic

[andrewFT86]

Originally Posted by shayangh

Quick question from a lurker, what oil coolers are you guys using if any? Any other cooling modifications?

I have the AVO oil cooler kit. Good placement and works for me even when I go to the track.

track review AVO turbo and oil cooler

[Wise]

Originally Posted by andrewFT86

I have the AVO oil cooler kit. Good placement and works for me even when I go to the track.

This is part of the reason why I like the AVO kit. If a cop popped this hood, he'd think it was bone stock apart from the braided oil lines.

[2thdoc]

I have now tried to seal an the oil leak on the oil pump on the back of the cam plate 7 times. Twice with Permatex red RTV high temp gasket maker, twice with Permatex ultra black maximum oil resistance gasket maker, once with a cork gasket and now twice with the oem gasket sealer. I just had a groove put into the plate and put a O ring like the cam plate cover from Raceseng and it's still leaking. It can't be this hard. Any suggestions? AVO is sending me a new plate but i am going on a 5 day road trip to Tail of the Dragon and I'm worried i won't get the plate in time

[andrewFT86]

Originally Posted by 2thdoc

I have now tried to seal an the oil leak on the oil pump on the back of the cam plate 7 times. Twice with Permatex red RTV high temp gasket maker, twice with Permatex ultra black maximum oil resistance gasket maker, once with a cork gasket and now twice with the oem gasket sealer. I just had a groove put into the plate and put a O ring like the cam plate cover from Raceseng and it's still leaking. It can't be this hard. Any suggestions? AVO is sending me a new plate but i am going on a 5 day road trip to Tail of the Dragon and I'm worried i won't get the plate in time

Try to sand the cam plate from AVO and clean it before applying sealant. When my kit was first installed OEM subaru sealant was used and took almost 4 years before it leaked. Used permatex last week and so far so good even after just one day to allow it to cure. I emailed Raceseng hoping they can make a cam plate specific for us on AVO kits. Hope you can email them requesting the same and maybe improve the chance of it materializing.

[2thdoc]

Originally Posted by andrewFT86

Try to sand the cam plate from AVO and clean it before applying sealant. When my kit was first installed OEM subaru sealant was used and took almost 4 years before it leaked. Used permatex last week and so far so good even after just one day to allow it to cure. I emailed Raceseng hoping they can make a cam plate specific for us on AVO kits. Hope you can email them requesting the same and maybe improve the chance of it materializing.

I had a o ring groove made and it still leaked

[2thdoc]

this is what it looks like

[andrewFT86]

Originally Posted by 2thdoc

this is what it looks like

A flange might be better ?

[2thdoc]

Did you use Permatatex black or red

[andrewFT86]

Black

[kuchtaa]

Originally Posted by andrewFT86

have you solved the problem ? turbo replacement?

Not yet, the turbo has been replaced but the white smoke is still pouring out of the exhaust and it has a bad idle that won't stay running without some gas on a cold start. Moto east thinks it the oil scavenger pump but according to avo they never had one go bad. Working on getting replacement pump right now.

[andrewFT86]

Originally Posted by kuchtaa

Not yet, the turbo has been replaced but the white smoke is still pouring out of the exhaust and it has a bad idle that won't stay running without some gas on a cold start. Moto east thinks it the oil scavenger pump but according to avo they never had one go bad. Working on getting replacement pump right now.

Hope everything gets sorted.

[kuchtaa]

Originally Posted by andrewFT86

Hope everything gets sorted.

Thanks, installed the new Avo oil scavenge pump and it fixed the issue

[Jaden]

What do you do for oil scavenge on the auto version since there's a vacuum pump where your scavenge pump should go?

Jaden

[2thdoc]

Originally Posted by Jaden

What do you do for oil scavenge on the auto version since there's a vacuum pump where your scavenge pump should go?

Jaden

it replaces it