Since January 2002 this year, i’ve been peicing together a custom turbo kit and I finally finished purchasing everything I needed at the end of june.
I went with:
Garrett T3 AirResearch
Drag Manifold
Turbonetics Wastegate
HKS Blow Off Valve
Starion Intercooler (welded with outlets on the side)
Vortech FMU
Bosch Inline Fuel Pump
Autometer Boost/Air Fuel Gauges
Drag Piping from an Integra
And all the other stuff (oil lines, vaccuum, etc)
Now came the time to install everything, I phoned around my city and asked for quotes for installing the turbo and i’ve got quotes from (800-1600 cdn) just for a freaking install! At this point I was ready to say screw the turbo and sell everything I bought, but then I though it took to long to peice together all the parts, and all the time I spent finding the parts, so I wasn’t going to stop just yet.
At this point I thought that it wouldn’t be to hard to install everything, so I started taking stuff out of my car (a/c, old intake, header) July 1st. Everything seemed to be going good, untill I ran into a problem with the fuel pump install, but my friend ended up comming over and helping me with it. Also the piping wasn’t exactly fitting right due to this not being the drag kit with the drag intercooler, so I had to get a new peice of pipe made (traced everything out with card board got shop to make it). Another problem I ran into was the bumper wouldn’t fit on with my intercooler in the way, but I took Haberdasher’s advice (cut…cut it…cut it baby…). Other then that, everything went smooth!
So now pretty much 1 month later, and I’m finished! Started up the car tonight (no downpipe, very loud!) and got an appointment at the muffler shop monday to get my downpipe made. Can’t wait till monday to actually drive it! I’m going to be running 7psi.
So all and all, it was a great experience installing everything! I learnt alot of new things.
Just though I’d share this with you all! 