taurran

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I'd get out your stock plenum, as you will get better results out of it. As far as the headers, you can make it work but it's a bit of a pain because the downpipe won't fit without altering it, but it will work if adjusted.

Looks like you're kind of in my situation where all of your NA mods have some kind of conflict with a ST upgrade. It's painful to see them go after all the cash spent, but it's worth it. I wish I had just spent all my cash on visual mods and just went to the ST from a stock setup.

Peking

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Just wanted to let you guys know that Reggie is super cool, and I got my 1/8" Tap

SirJonnyWispit

thats good news for you... the welding didnt work because that area is so dirty and impregnated with so much oil that it wouldnt take.... so i talked to reggie earlier today and he is sending me the upper oil pan. now i just have to get it put on and i dont want to get into that since you either have to pull the motor or drop the suspension to replace it. PEKING congrats on getting your tap, your luckier than me haha... thank me for cracking mine, its gonna prevent other people having the same problem. hey do you know any good shops in GA? reggie was trying to think of one i can take my car and have the pan installed but doesnt know any in GA. help me out man.

Peking

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Well some folks seem to have installed without having this 1/8" tap, but so maybe or maybe not will be used I guess it will be figured out when we get in there.


Oh also we have many shops here, oh and "Shops" (like poser shops that have no right to call themselves that). Out of all the shops here, the only one that I have continued to hear "good" things about over the years is a place called Knowledge Performance which is North of Atlanta and slighty NW, so would be a little more of a easier drive for you.


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Talk to Melvin, and or Kevin.


But anyway I had been planning on doing this install with just me and a friend (including the gauges, oil pan spacer, new plugs, oil catch can), but because I have a huge meet in a week and a half in MD. And getting the time off of work to work on the car, as well as getting a schedule down with my friend (who has previous boost/gauges experience) to do this has been really difficult.

So since I am taking my car Knowledge Performance for the LSD, I decided to get them to install everything... Including 3 dyno pulls before, and 3 runs after.

Turbonetics turbo kit, oil pan spacer, oil catch can, new plugs, boost gauge, EGT gauge, AEM A/F gauge, tri gauge pod, and Cusco LSD for about $1600.

Now I have been reading that folks are looking around 1300 dollars for the turbo install, and that I assume does not include the dyno runs before and after and considering that means that I am getting the LSD install at 300 dollars (also two other shops quoted me $500 or more depending on the LSD install goes oh and one shop wanted to charge me $140 per gauge installed). So pretty good deal to me with Knowledge Perf. and basically while I am work they will be working on it and I will get it back within a week and tech. days before I planned orginally to do it myself.

Anyway once again we have many shops, the bigger name shops like Balanced Performance, Battleground Engineering, Mainstream Perf., Z1 Perf., etc. But after spending the last week after work driving all over the state, calling shops and what not... Knowledge was what I was most pleased with, and I feel most comfortable with letting them work on my car compared to other places.

taurran

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I asked my installer about this yesterday, and he said he read the instructions and decided it was better to go with the 1/8in rather than what they provided. I'm glad he did so, as I've had no issues with the oil line.

Just anoter heads up for you future self-installers -- Make sure you are VERY careful where you route the AC line. Mine ended up getting routed too close to some of the piping and it ended up burning a hole through the shielding and causing a leak. Turbonetics sent me a new line and we dropped it in a few days ago, being extra careful of where it was routed and also adding extra shielding, and now I have cold AC again. Good thing is, I think my AC is colder now than before the install.

35ounces

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I thought that the AC line was just replaced not actually rerouted???

MIAPLAYA

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It is replaced but you may want to safetey wire it up to something. If not it could possible rub on the wastegate piping. Same thing I'd do with any line in my car. Zip tie or safety wire it out of the way.

kcobean

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You're not the first person this happened to. It happened to LawW as well.