Saturday we accomplished a lot of the grunt work. OldGrayDog and my dad swung by to help or hang out.
-Filter was installed in place. Thanks to JC for the helpful tip of putting it in place PRIOR to trying to install the turbo. That was critical.
-Turbo was installed. Expect this to take some time, especially your first shot. You've got to push it up in place, orient the water coolant lines and feed them up through through the engine bay to hopefully where a friend (Madwi in this case) is waiting to grab them.
-Upper plenum reinstalled along with throttle bodies.
-Intercooler/charge piping installed. This is awful if you have a CMAK. Flat out my least favorite part of this job. Definitely windex your couplers to make adjustment easier. You may need to re-orient your clutch line - this is not documented in the instructions. You will probably need to remove a bolt from your lower engine mount and reverse it to gain a precious 3/4s of an inch of space to orient Frank (the frankenstein pipe) to work around the CMAK. If you do this early, you will save many hours and a lot of frustration. I did not do this early.
-A lot of smaller work accomplished - running BOV's, getting those in place, prepping for exhaust piping.
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2014 370z Touring Sport Magma Red MT // BP Single Turbo 6467 // 63mm TB's // Z1 Ported Upper Mani // RJM Pedal // Zspeed Stage 3 Clutch // 526 WHP, 451 WTQ
2006 350z (Sold) // 1990 300zx (Sold) // 1985 300zx 2+2 (Sold)
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