Remote Filter and Oil Filter Housing
Luke,
Do your project a massive favour and ditch that oil filter housing, and throw the remote filter into a blast furnace.
The stock AHU housing points straight down, and as we swappers find out, it can interfere with fabbing a left side engine mount, hence having to relocate the filterto create space.
A buddy of mine runs a VW/Audi shop. I was wandering around his parts storage area, while in the midst of my conversion in '08, and found a gasser audi turbo 4 cyl engine on the ground. I seriously had a "EUREKA!" moment when I found that its oil filter housing is angled backwards!
It bolts right up. Same gasket and all, AND uses the same OEM TDi filter.
For me, its ports worked REALLY well, too, as I have a mechanical gauge AND I had to use the stock Suzuki oil press switch to get my low oil light to function correctly.
I DID have to fab a custom oil line to the turbo, yet I had to do that anyway to accomodate an oil temp probe, so this was a no brainer for me.
Before I discovered this, I was running a remote filter setup. I had so many leakage and hose problems with it I was ECSTATIC to throw it as far as I could
Good Luck!