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Originally Posted by tonyHTX
^ Well, on the brighter side at least you are getting over the humps and not sitting scratching your head for too long! Hopefully the rest of your plans come together smoothly. Again, as jwick has said there are some around willing to lend a hand or beer if you need some!
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Really appreciate it! Knowing there is support in the area has bumped my confidence even if I have not yet taken advantage of it.
Today... was an excellent day! Didn't get as far as we'd hoped, but we finally (I think) solved the last puzzle.. We found some issues with our drivers side turbo inlet pipe (which we have nicknamed "the bitchpipe" since it has sucked a 1.5 days of our time banging our heads against the wall).. in the configuration we settled on yesterday, it looked like a lip in the chassis was going to wear a hole in the coupler over time.
Here is what you need to know:
There are two inlet pipes, they are packaged together and not labeled differently as if they are identical.
They look, at first, to be identical.
They are NOT identical.
One is slightly longer than the other. This is the drivers side pipe. The short end goes towards the turbo.
The slightly shorter pipe (passenger side pipe) has the long end going towards the turbo. Groove, this information will extend your life for years in missed stress. We went through what felt like a zillion permutations of the configuration and it just felt like nothing worked.
With those pipes finally figured out, we mocked up the rest of the pipeing and it went in like a breeze. The coupler between the drivers side compressor outlet pipe and intercooler inlet pipe seemed waaaay too short. When we finally got it on, it just looked like it would pop off at first boost. After speaking to support, we found out that some of the pipes got manufactured a half inch too short, and on some kits that coupler wont reach enough to tightly couple both pipes so they sourced longer couplers.. Our support guy, Jason, grabbed one and overnighted it to us. Should be here tomorrow and that issue should be solved.
We marked the two inlet pipes and drilled/tapped/barbed (for PCV) and did the same for the passenger charge pipe (for wastegates) and reinstalled. We cannibalized the old horn bracket to make a new horn bracket, flipped the horn around, and mounted it to the passenger side top intercooler mount. Looks like another horn on the drivers side will need to be adjusted to fit the air filter, but we haven't installed it yet to see. Got the BOV's installed, and also cut the snorkel outlets to fit the intercooler outlet couplers.
Got the upper intake manifold drilled/tapped/barbed as well for the BOV's, will reinstall tomorrow...
Speaking of tomorrow.. if we have an excellent day we could finish the build... but nothing ever seems to go as fast as I think it will. Most likely we'll be ready for base tune on New Years Eve. In 2016, I resolve to boost.
To do list (in orderish):
Run wastegate lines
Run power steering lines
Install upper intake manifold
Replace way-to-short coupler between driver's IC inlet and turbo charge pipe (hopefully the coupler will be in)
Run BOV lines
Install air filters
Install MAF tubes and MAFs
Install steering shaft coupler
Install o2 sensor housings onto turbos (along with o2 sensors)
Install Y-pipe
Put wheels back on car.
Install big *** GTM oil pan and plumb turbo oil drains
Install new fuel pump
Looks like a crapload of stuff, but a lot of it is small jobs. We would have to crush tomorrow to get it all done, most likely sometime the day after we will finish up. I really don't see too many snags ahead, just a lot of hooking stuff up.
