How are you guys doing this without a lot of downtime. I tried to put my turbo kit on for the 3rd time and got done 95% of the stuff after 9 hours of working on it. With a lot of effort it finally fit on the car.

Here is the story. I bought a used XS Engineering turbo kit for 500. Catch was missing the GT28RS turbo. Everything else was there. This is for my GSR. I ended up buying a Partial Greddy kit and used the turbo off of that. Bought all the other items and anything else i needed. I searched for quality parts and bought almost everything new. I bought a Stock p72 and got inline pro to install a S100 on it with a basemap.

After getting everything together my friend and I installed the kit with a lot of problems but got it done, but the downpipe was too long. The AC line rubs on the wastegate actuator ( this is a internal, wastegated turbo). So after doing all that i said forget it. I wasn't positive if the turbo ran fine, and this is my dail. I couldn't run open header because its my daily. So i said forget it and stopped. After all that trouble. This is by far the hardest thing i have done to my car and i dont know how you guys do it with your dailys. My car has 177k on it and i beat on it on a normal basis and it runs very well. Compression isn't perfect, but its okay. It made 160whp with I/H/E. So i thought why not turbo it, but after this mess im thinking twice.

Cliff notes: How do you guys go about boosting your daily...with only one car to get you around?

 

Carpool?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Liquidgsr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">How are you guys doing this without a lot of downtime. I tried to put my turbo kit on for the 3rd time and got done 95% of the stuff after 9 hours of working on it. With a lot of effort it finally fit on the car.

Here is the story. I bought a used XS Engineering turbo kit for 500. Catch was missing the GT28RS turbo. Everything else was there. This is for my GSR. I ended up buying a Partial Greddy kit and used the turbo off of that. Bought all the other items and anything else i needed. I searched for quality parts and bought almost everything new. I bought a Stock p72 and got inline pro to install a S100 on it with a basemap.

After getting everything together my friend and I installed the kit with a lot of problems but got it done, but the downpipe was too long. The AC line rubs on the wastegate actuator ( this is a internal, wastegated turbo). So after doing all that i said forget it. I wasn't positive if the turbo ran fine, and this is my dail. I couldn't run open header because its my daily. So i said forget it and stopped. After all that trouble. This is by far the hardest thing i have done to my car and i dont know how you guys do it with your dailys. My car has 177k on it and i beat on it on a normal basis and it runs very well. Compression isn't perfect, but its okay. It made 160whp with I/H/E. So i thought why not turbo it, but after this mess im thinking twice.

Cliff notes: How do you guys go about boosting your daily...with only one car to get you around?

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its a lot easier when you buy a quality kit that fits. kit could be installed in a weekend.

 

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Not going to happen on your first time. First time install you are looking at around 40 hours of labor. Then you have to figure all the part runs, going on the internet to find stuff out, finding out you don't have the part, need to order it, and waiting for it to arrive. Yeah, expect it to take about 2 weeks.

Now if you have a quality kit, know what you are doing, have good tools, and don't need to do the rest of the BS, then sure, a weekend is feasible. Otherwise, a weekend install isn't happening.

If you're asking how you do it, basically end result is what you encountered. You make a lot of mistakes your first time. Either you are willing to work through them and finish the project or decide it is too much aggravation and not worth the hassle. If you have the right tools, good parts, and know what you are doing it makes a world of difference. Anyone installing a turbo kit and doesn't have a mig welder, a good set of sockets, a BFH, prybar, good jack and jack stands, good power drill, and a clean space to work in will end up struggling the whole way. I still think the biggest mistake of my turbo build was not buying a good fluxcore/mig welder. When stuff doesn't fit, its only a matter of a couple cuts and a weld and things can keep moving along. When stuff doesn't fit and you don't have a welder, say goodbye to 8 hours.

 

a weekend if not sooner lol or u could save up some more money and buy a peice of **** daily driver or u could sell everytrhing u have and buy a kit made for ur car from either greddy or drag or something

 

lol.

 

yeah i was basically done. I just didn't want to drive open header. This being my daily driver and all. I could have got a ride and just got the exhaust modified, but after thinking about and freaking out that the motor might blow and that the turbo or something else might leak i said forget it. I don't know.

 

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Not going to happen on your first time. First time install you are looking at around 40 hours of labor. Then you have to figure all the part runs, going on the internet to find stuff out, finding out you don't have the part, need to order it, and waiting for it to arrive. Yeah, expect it to take about 2 weeks.

Now if you have a quality kit, know what you are doing, have good tools, and don't need to do the rest of the BS, then sure, a weekend is feasible. Otherwise, a weekend install isn't happening.

If you're asking how you do it, basically end result is what you encountered. You make a lot of mistakes your first time. Either you are willing to work through them and finish the project or decide it is too much aggravation and not worth the hassle. If you have the right tools, good parts, and know what you are doing it makes a world of difference. Anyone installing a turbo kit and doesn't have a mig welder, a good set of sockets, a BFH, prybar, good jack and jack stands, good power drill, and a clean space to work in will end up struggling the whole way. I still think the biggest mistake of my turbo build was not buying a good fluxcore/mig welder. When stuff doesn't fit, its only a matter of a couple cuts and a weld and things can keep moving along. When stuff doesn't fit and you don't have a welder, say goodbye to 8 hours.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i never said 8 hours, i meant an entire weekend. friday night, saturday and sunday car is running. 2 people. a quality kit wouldnt require any cutting or welding, aside from oil pan bung, and downpipe flange to bolt up to the exhaust system. and i would hope it includes all the parts necessary, so no waiting for deliveries. never the less you must prepare for the worst though.

 

yeah only other problem was that i couldn't put both fans in. One fan had to be taken out and i woudl have to get a slim fan.

 

Took me two 6 hour days and a few hours before work here and there. Got it running in about a week or two due to extra parts I needed. It is some work, but once you get it right it is well worth it. Feeling your car loosing traction in 3rd gear is something special .

 

when i did my first install, i made sure everything that needed to be welded (oil return bung) and mounted (intercooler)done so. took me 5 hours to remove all the N/A stuff and install all the turbo stuff with everything else already ready for me. i was also doing this by myself. but before you get started, make sure you have a gameplan of what needs to be done first and last. and just check it off the list as youre done.

 

well i think if i do it again it will take much much less time. I wish i had measured the downpipe and checked how much needed to be cut and modified. Everything else fits fine. Again just don't want the motor blowing since it has high miles and what not.

 

took my brother and I 3 days on his civic. Starting at about 7am-5:30pm. And both of us had minimal experence working on cars. And many trips to local ace hardware store on bicycle.lol

 

get a girl friend that can drive u around.. that's what I did when my car was down.

Or.. buy a beater for ~$500

 

thats exactly what i did i bought a 300 doller nissan sentra E i get 42 miles per gallon in that thing haha but it definately helps with working on the car and not being stressed if things dont go as planned

 

I did it. Just keep taking off the parts and putting them back on to get fitment right. Then the night before you get tuned on the dyno put everything together and blow your headgasket like I did. I even deliver pizzas with my car making 300whp 200tq on a gt28rs oh and 11:1 compression.

Make sure you keep your stock stuff you take off so if something happens you can put it back to NA for awhile.

 

The first install takes a long time...even longer when you buy parts that dont fit. After the first install it becomes easier. My first turbo setup installation from stock GSR to boosted GSR took over 50hrs with the clutch install. I worked on it for 10hrs a day and after a week, it was done. I did most of it alone so that accounts for a lot of time...get a few buddies and bust it out in a few days

 

It took me from Friday afternoon til Sunday night to install my clutch, on my own. And 20 hours straight from a Saturday morning at 9 til Sunday morning at 4 to install the turbo kit with a friend of mine who did all the welding for $150, not bad. Get it done.

 

My first kit took a weekend, and this included fabricating the charge pipes and downpipe myself. Wasn't too hard at all.

 

my install took me 2 weeks.

about 6hours a day.
lots of trips to the hardware.

 

i did mine over night. 10pm and was finished by 6am. I had to fab all the charge pipes, downpipe, remove the oil pan for the drain, everything.

why are you all wasting time running to part stores and hardware stores during the install?

before i do anything, i think about every detail and get all my parts BEFORE i start.

 

start praying 2 jesus......

 

WTF 40 hours to install a bolt on turbo kit? yeah okay..maybe if you were swapping the engine too. . . .

 

thats even still long if you have what you need a swap should only take 4 or 5 hours

 

40 hrs for a turbo kit? sweet jesus. maybe if u had to fabricate everything your self