I've read a few topics when people put in a drag kti they have to shave 1/2-3/4 of an inch off the block, is this just with hybrids or do you have to shave the engine with all of the drag kits even though its made for the car? do you have to shave the engine with revhard kits to?

 

Any turbo manifold that places a T04E or T04B compressor housing close to the left side of the block will require cutting of some of the aluminum webing on the block!

 

anyone have pictures of this

 

i will post a pic if i can find it when I get home. Buy yourself a dremel. I had to file that shiet by hand :/

 

Or did what i did. A sharp metal grinding bit in an electric drill.
I had to take about 1/2" off of the webbing and I also knocked off one of the tabs to make it easier to run the intake pipe.

 

Sometimes u get lucky and you dont have to shave the block.

 

Yes, from talking to Dave Shih, I learned it's just luck of the draw. But it's much more likely on the fat housing of the E rather than B.

 

i dont understand how luck is involved in it

 

B/C although these are imports which have relatively little tolerances for variance in the engine build, there still are some. Remember, we're talking about shaving a 1/4 or 1/2" here. The same turbo may require block shaving on one car and none at all on another.

 

can u shave the turbo a little?

 

With my Drag gen 3 kit on my d16z6 I had to remove one bar that connects the transmission to the engine and I had to heat and twist the downpipe to make it fit. I can't wait to get a 2 1/2" dp

 

dang man, i bought the drag to avoid all this customizing
crap this sucks

 

ya, I feel ya.
I cant find any manifold that will make everything fit, including A/C.
phauk this, im going with centrifugal SC in place of powersteering! sshhh..

 

no one is gona notice when you sell the car that the block has a notch cut out of it. what's the matter with shaving off a little metal?

 

Here's what GSRgrrl and I had to "lightly" trim.

 

didnt have to shave it on rev hard kit on my gsr, but had to shave it for my DRAG III kit on my R...weird huh?

 

on the two turbo installs ive done, we didnt have to shave anything but the fan.

 

I had to shave a pretty good bit off of some "webbing" that is around a bolt from the tranny...I was hesitant to shave and didn't take enough, now I noticed I have a slight exhaust leak because the turbo hit the block before the manny sealed all the way