Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

Hi All,

I recently purchased a Pajero 2008 3.2 which had 2 previous owners, its got 290 000km on the clock.

One of my mates is a bit of a diesel head and when we were inspecting the engine last weekend he noticed some strange modification to the engine bay, upon inspection we saw that the vehicle had an after market turbo installed in place of the original one. Leading from the turbo was some sort of plumbing lines connected to what looked like some reservoir near the front-right head lamp (pics below). In his point of view this was very poor practice and done with what looks like plumbing parts and an "IZUZU" bracket so he wants to take the whole thing out and restore it to its "original" design.

Just want to ask has anyone seen something like this before and what would the reason for something like this be? Also any risk of causing major issues if we took out the plumbing and restored it with an original Banjo bolt?

Cheers

Turbo with plumbing lines: Reservoir of some kind:

Looks like it would be an oil reservoir for some reason... I'm no expert but that should be plumbed into the rest of the vehicles oil supply to serve any purpose? Unless theres a pump there too somewhere. But there shouldnt be a need for an oil reservoir unless theres an oil delivery issue?

The plumbing parts look pretty budget and uh... not advisable...

The only mods I've considered doing for performance/reliability are to sort out the high intake temps (around 70 celcius) seen on both my 380 000km example as well as my brothers basically new 80 000km model. Larger intercooler needed and better placement.

Other concern is the transmission cooler - temps under load get too toasty, depending on situation i've seen above 90 celcius.

But in terms of oil cooling or storage, this would be the first time I've heard of it...

Thanks Peter,

Yeah my mate was thinking sort of the same thing, he said if anything we should replace the water pump and move it forward but in terms of this current mod it doesn't make too much sense.

I'll chat to him about the potential oil delivery issue and forward him your thoughts just as something to keep in mind so we don't end stranding the car in the workshop.

Thanks for the advice and keep well

Looks like a turbo protector

https://turboformance.co.za/turboprotects/

Cheers @4ePikanini , looks like you nailed it down, thanks very much!