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Well, here are some feedbacks:
I made a new friend last week, his name is eaton M45, I have nothing modded right now in terms of TB, cams or exhaust, but I can say this gives the little punch the car didnt have before. The whine is so cool when opening it, and even the slight whisper you hear while driving normally is making me smile. I really love having the manual transmission with the car as I can keep from shifting while cruising just to hear it breathe.
The take overs are awesome now. 80-120 (km/h) in like 4 sec in third gear. Engine is also stronger at low rpm, getting up hills like it never did on the same hills before.
I was also surprised at the quality of the parts in the kit. For the price its a really solid product.
Took me 15 hours to complete the installation, alone.
Cant wait to have my full exhaust done and put the 62mm TB in.
Things I learned during the install:
-You need small arms and fingers to work on a car. (thankgod)
-Theres a lot of bolts in a car.
-You never know which problem you will face when working on your car.
-Belt tensioner is not by friend.
-Replacing my starter now will be a PITA (Idem for the Alternator and Air conditionning compressor)
-Just because it sounds easy in the manual doesnt mean it is.
-3 hours spent on two bolts is frustrating.
-The two bolts the supercharger sits on are impossible to torque. (and the left one is, like AleroSaint said, impossible to just screw without telekinesis)
-Injectors are a bitch to get out of the rails ("carefully pull", ha ha ha, no...)
-Injectors related : Purging fuel lines like they said to do is bullshit, still spilled 1/4 liter of fuel all over the engine.
-When trying to cut the original tape on the loom for the TB wires and injector wires, be careful not to cut wires... because thats another hour you could spend on something else...
-Belt tensioner is definitively not my friend in the end.
-People working at stealerships are, most of them, dumb asses.
-Too bad installing a second one would required half the time the first one took.
Thats about what I can think of.
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2 door 2000 Black GX With a stick: M45 eaton supercharger - Quad4's 57mm Throttle body - Custom WAI - KYB GR-2 struts - CM Lowering springs - Front and rear strut tower brace - R1 concept zinc plated drilled/slotted rotors with semi-metallic pads - short shifter.
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Originally Posted by Alerosaint
the #6 bolt torque..its impossible to get...unless I use telekenesis
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Last edited by Vinalero : 06-22-2008 at 12:47 PM.
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