put on a 16g..

Start fresh. Oil and coolant.
Why not?
If you pull the A/C fan you'll have more room to work.
Not really necessary but its 4 bolts and one plug.
Make sure you have all the correct gaskets and tools.
And a 17mm deep to get the front pipe nuts off.
PB Blaster those the night before you do it.
Same with anything else that sees heat cycles you want to come off w/o
breaking. Such as the turbo to manifold bolts. Which you may also like to replace unless you want to try and get the UP stud out of the T-25 to use???
Why I'd never know...
Chances are you'll snap one of them. Get new ones.
Make sure you use the thick washers, and if you can, use the cut spring type instead. My turbo likes to unwind them on its own. Probably from not having balance shafts.
That help?

Please tell me you atleast got a jacket at some point?

You so ca-raaazy...
I'm glad you got it.
What did you end up doing for the coolant lines?
Did you make them fit?
I seriously hope you got it all right.

See why I just switched the head and water pipe to a 1g?
Easier... j/k

It is a bolt on affair, but I believe you should have the 16g/14b coolant pipes that bolt to the turbo. I think having to use the ones from the T-25 is what fucked you up. Had you done this before, you probably could have done it in an hour or two if you had to do it again. Now you know.
I hope its all good Rich. I know you tried real hard.

i also just put in an evoIII in my 95 tsi. i had ported the turbo prior to receiving my gaskets, oil line, and fuel pump. from start to finish, after porting out the manny to match the 7cm and ported out the o2 housing out more. putting on all the goodies took me 6 hours. just had to wait for the j pipe to come in cause the one i received was hitting my slimline fans. next day i though of an awesome idea!..........put my stock fans back on . did so, took off the ac fan and i've had it like that since. just have the pipng goin under the crossmember right now, not too safe, but works ok if i watch for bumps. just looking at getting some universal aluminum piping to drop in the evoVIII front mount and get my downpipe made and im set till i get dsmlink . just for fun, what do you guys recommend being safe on stock injectors regarding boost? ive heard around 12-14. i have it at ten just imma sissy like that and i was running my friend the other night and it was freezing balls and it went up to like 13ish. you guys think im safe?

I did a big 16g install on my car the weekend before last after my T-25 died. It took me 26 straight hours without sleep to get it put on ( Never did something like this before ). I had to make a oil feed line, a oil return line and custom make some intercooler piping because my old turbo's exducer was on the bottom, this one its on the top. I made the IC pipe from the stock LIC soft pipe and a friends civics exhaust pipe.

Needless to say, 1 day of missed work, a pint of blood lost but it fired up and it runs fine ( except for the 2 exhaust manifold bolts I that broke ). Those are being replaced tomorrow. I just hope tomorrows work doesnt take to long.

1: oil change
2: transmission flush/filter change
3: clean air filter
4: swap big 16g to 20g ( new exhaust mani and wastegate )
5: boost leak test
6: cut/trim front bumper for more airflow to FMIC and Radiator
7: rotate tires
8: add profec B boost controller
9: wire up light for boost gauge
thats all I can remember right now.

hopefully this weekend is long enough