Hey guys thought I would share my experience helping install a greddy kit on my friend Tim's Si. First of all Arturbo was right, this is as close as a "bolt on" kit as you can get. We had to do no major adjustments or cutting. Everything was a snap to get in, much easier than when we did ITR206's custom setup.

Yes the kit has a small 18g but for what Tim wanted it works great. He is using the greddy bluebox and stayin at 5.5psi stock boost for the time being. The bluebox seems to work great. We threw no codes and the car seemed to pull nicely. We hope to see results close to if not 200whp. We will see at dyno day. For now here are some pics I snapped.

Tims Sweet xenondepot.com HID kit 5000k. Very nice ballast install. Can't wait to get mine.


Hard to see but I told Tim to go with a block adapter for the turbo oil feed line. It is the greddy and it worked like a charm.


This one speaks for itself. This is what I think of the bluebox


Nice engine pic.


Autometer Cobalt series gauges, shitty picture but the gauges are actually pretty sweet. They are no greddy gauges


hmmm. What the hell is that twig lookin thing. Oh ya its the DP


side view


turbo view from below


Definitely my favorite addon to the greddy kit. This thing is money



Basically it was a nice easy install. Things worked nicely and we had him up and running well today. Now hopefully the dyno will give some good numbers.

 

I really wish there was a drooling icon right now.....

CAR LOOKS SICK!!

 

Thats a nice, clean install. How long did it take you from start to finish? Difficulty? And by oil feed block adapter, you mean you didn't tap the oil pan correct? Also, does the blue box just plug in, or do I have to splice it into the factory harness like an AFC? I was contemplating a Greddy setup, and if I can complete the install myself, I just might go for it.


[Modified by [VTEC]TL, 5:19 PM 2/23/2003]

 

 

Nice! I was also gonna get a greddy kit down the road. What was the hardest part of the install?

 

it's a piggyback unit. You have to splice the blue box wires into specific ECU wires. if you get them right, the blue box's green LED light will blink to let you know it's working. if the wiring is wrong, no blinky.

nice pics of the install and what not. but man, i didn't realize how whimpy my DP looked until you posted a pic of one. and i give the blue box a also.

 

very nice...

 

Clean install

 

nice install.

 

nice, does it run yet?

 

nice setup *drool*

 

 

SO fresh and SO clean clean

 

This is my third install I have helped do and by far the easiest. I have a custom setup on my ITR and I have done another ITR custom setup. Doing this greddy kit was very easy, but beware if you have no knowledge of turbo's or installing atleast have someone there that knows something if you get stuck. The kit was as close to "bolt on" as you can get.

Start to finish time was hard to calculate because we did it in pieces. I would say with all the time we spent you could finish it in a day if you knew what you were doing. The block adapter was for the oil feed line. This allows you not to have to tap the block for the feed line. It is an adapter that goes right on your oil filter then bolts right up. The advantage to this besides making it easy to run a feed line. It also has nipples for an oil pressure gauge and vtec (for vtec conversions) plus all the oil is filtered that goes to your turbo.

The wiring for the greddy bluebox is like an afc although I think it is easier. The wires all match the color of the stock wires so its almost impossible to mess it up.
The car is running great and with the OBDII setup each time he drives the car it runs stronger because the ecu learns the driving patterns and it also gets feedback from the new toys installed

I think the hardest thing for this install would be the Type 24 Intercooler and having to cut the bumper support. I wasn't there when Tim did that but it just took some cutting. Everything else fit like a glove. All around it is a great daily drivable kit. We will have Dyno numbers and ET's soon.

 

nice......looks awesome

 

dammit this is tempting me to get a greddy kit

 

looking good!
do you have any closer pics of the oil feed block adapter?