So just ordered my Stillen SC

Originally Posted by mikey1600

So day 2 down, finishing earlier today.

now up to page 17 of 37 for tomorrows start.

had to head out and buy a 3/8 breaker bar for the belt tensioner, couldn't get just the bar anywhere so bought a deep drive 3/8 socket set with the bar in it, I'll use the deep sockets on other stuff so no biggie.

lots of fiddling with bits and pieces today, probably the most pain in the *** thing was getting the 3 bolts underneath the new manifold tightened along with having to cut/re-solder 6 wires at each end for the throttle body extension (labelled as a harness in the manual, just 6 wires lol). they should really make this into an adapter clip, for the money you pay for the kit, really didn't expect to be doing things like that. Again lots of bending of pipes/brackets and cutting. you are told twice in the manual to bend the fuel line which is bolted to the front of the engine which goes to the fuel rails. the first bend it tells you to do shows the bent fuel sender at one angle, then later on it tells you to bend it again so you can get the front throttle body plug in, and another picture shows it at a completely different angle.. lol

spent some time also looking at the crash bar for mounting the frozen boost heat exchanger, will do the 180 on the crash bar and will probably end up making a bracket that bolts into the crash bar then to the heat exchanger so I don't have to do much cutting of the front bar, I've had a look at Vlad's and Ivo's way they have done it and will be a combination of both without cutting the crash bar/minimising cutting up the front bar.

installed new spark plugs as well while doing the injectors, went with HKS for those.

the standard spark plugs are different from other normal ones I've seen before, they were a different size so a spark plug socket wouldn't work, so we just used a normal socket to loosen them off and once they were unscrewed, used a magnetic light thing I have to pull them out, not sure what everyone else used here, but I would have been off buying more stuff if it wasn't for the magnetic light thing I have.

another thing not really indicated in the manual is the steps of doing things, a lot of time is wasted with having to undo parts you have already completed in order to make it easier or even fit some other parts on. whoever wrote the manual must have installed many kits beforehand and it's just in their head as the normal install.

It's been fun and frustrating at the same time, but can't wait for it to be finished!

Tomorrow we are onto mounting the supercharger and running more lines.