Believe it or not, it was already done, the angle of the picture makes it hard to tell. With the line moved, I have more then enough room to easily fit a 45o elbow socket for the top left bolt.

 

Good Luck. Glad to see another DIY'er. Going all out with a brand new kit! Cool.
Have fun!

 

How is it going brother in installing your own turbo kit......at least you didnt try installing a greddy twin kit with the engine still in the car like i did.

 

sweet!

 

looks good man! looking forward to the end results!

 

Nice work Jeffie7, makes me want to wrench on my Z.

 

I wonder how much harder the Greddy kit is VS this one, no doubt more piping, but this kit has the largest piping possible, while only a single, I'm guessing its just as hard to install, just less pipes.

I wont get around to doing all that much work on it till Saturday. Might get out there for a few tomorrow but I'm trying to keep the noise levels down since I have people living over top and to the right of my garage. Weekdays = only home at night.

Might do the oil pan tomorrow as with the fittings and such. maybe the water lines. we'll see.

 

man this is an awesome thread. keep it up jeff!

 

The single turbo kit is much easier, actually. There's a reason why most shops would rather just pull the motor to install a TT kit.

 

Yep , I did an APS TT, there is "alot" more to do in the exhaust manifold are on a TT setup. Doing it with the LB in th engine bay is asking for more bloodied knuckles and colorful superlatives....

Personally I'd like to see an ST setup with nearly 100% indexed V-band connections.

 

nice nice

 

Tell me about it...............what a pita.

 

jeffi needs to stop complaining and get back down under his car and finish it up

his car is looking pretty bad ***(not jsut engine bay)

 

I did the same with the extensions. 1 20 inch ext and one 10 with a swivel end. looks ridicuolus but works

 

Today I spent around 30 minutes on it, I had to back out all the bolts going to the turbo/up pipe/down pipe and put anti seize on all the bolts then put them all back in, so I was able to do the most fun bolts of the whole install twice! yay =)

14mm Crowfoot worked pretty well on that rear right bolt FWIW

I also bent the A/C line near the turbo so it runs along the frame rail. and started to remove the oil pan but it's on good, so I had to stop for the night.

Hammers = no good. It will have to wait till the weekend =(

Intense just sent me the needed map tonight, I went to install that but noticed that my Utec box didn't have the battery hookup or the ground cable DOH! Intense is calling turbo xs first thing in the AM and I'm also calling them. Going to see if they can over night it to me for saturday, or maybe someone that works there lives near me and can drop it off, they're about 50 miles from me.

Again props to intense and powerlabs for all the help, e-mail, aim, and phone.
hopefully I'll have some detailed pictures of the turbo oil/water lines. hint hint. looking for those tomorrow in my e-mail.
=)

 

+1 for Customer Service

 

awesome dude! Ive been following the powerlab kit for a while and want to see as many pics as you can get b/c I feel that I can install the kit with some buddies and some beer Gotta have Jason fly out to TX to install/tune the proefi though

 

none of the kits on the market are HARD to install. Some just take more time than others and also, having the right tools makes all the difference. If you have just a set of sockets and some wrenches, don't attempt any of these installs.

if you have lots of different sockets sets, extensions, swivels, crows feet, alot of patience, ratcheting wrenches, don't mind scuffing some knuckles, etc....go for a DIY build.

 

I'll say it again jeffie...RESPECT

 

Slowly but surely its coming along Jeffie. I remmeber years ago giving you a ride in my TN set-up and you telling me about your previous project car and your doubts on taking that pluge with the Z. Nice to see something different in the area, it should be a fun summer with a variety of set-ups in the Mid-A.

Have you decided who is going to tune it?