Mach 5

Yes, he did confirm that the threads are 5/16-18 in the adapter plates. I still need to confirm whether I should attempt to drill out the flanges. I am afaid that if I try it myself with a hand drill, I will crack the flanges, then I'm SOL. I guess I have to try to find a machine shop that is open on Saturday.

Nothing is easy!!!! (venting)

Roger

exp951

there has to be something wrong, are all the adapters the same way or are these plates defective?

fejjj

All of my the plates are identical and were produced at the same time.

exp951

is that the way you designed them with standard size threads?

lart951

How are you going to crack the plates by drilling them? are you serious? the freaking things are steel not plastic, just drill them

fejjj

Yes they have standard threads and about 20 different people have installed them without issue.

I will upload a pic of these installed on my personal Tial WG with the 18 thread bolts.

I am not sure what the issue is here.

Maybe someone else can chime in and help.

mahoney944

Sounds like user error, post pictures of the issue

fejjj

My own WG.

Mach 5

In my first post I explained that the Tial has threads in the output flanges.

See below.

raleighBahn

I would like to know the answer too. If the tial is metric the flanges should match. What did others do?

lart951

Is that an original Tial or a Chinese knockoff?

Mach 5

You tell me?

Mach 5

I think the issue here is that most Tial wastegates apparently do not have threaded flanges. For some reason mine did. I was able to successfully drill them out anf attach the adapter plates to the wastegate. It was not that big of a deal to do this, it just surprised me since I have poured over all the threads discussing intallation of an F38 and I never read about anyone having to do this. Well, at least the next person will know what to do if they get one with threads.

Roger

Cyberpunky

My Tial had threads. Just drilled them out and it is easy to do with hand drill. I thought they all had threads actually. The imperial threads are not a problem if in my metric country I can walk into any auto store and buy them.

alxdgr8

I've seen some Tial 38's with threads, and yes you did the right thing to drill them out. That's what everyone has done on the past adapters when SFR and Pauer were making them.