Haha, yeah. When i talked to ya yesterday i told ya something like $158. Thats the price the parts guy gave me over the phone. When i went today to pick it up he tried to give me a secondary oxygen sensor. So i had to ORDER this one. Will arrive and pick up after work tomorrow. So thankfully this isn't hindering my install

 

hey, by the time i come up though it will be dark. dont wait up for me. but ill be up after work saturday. bout 6:30 ish

call me as soon as the manifold hits your doorstep.

 

/\/\ Its all cool man, probably won't be until dark when i get it running anyways. Getting off work at 3, then the exhaust filler stuff i bought to fill in the slip fit dump takes 4 hours to cure, then maybe another 1-2 hours for final install, so i'm looking to be up and running by 9-10pm tomorrow night

 

Yea, crossthreading FTL!!! It happened to my Spipe sensor, and I had to dremel the threads back, works well..

Congrats

 

**UPDATE*** 12/17/06



Alright guys! The kit is 100% in and running!! I had a bit of a hinderance due to a problem with poping EFI fuses which was at fault for the secondary O2 sensor having it's outer wire covering melted through and touching a piece of metal attached to the block which all your EFI componets ground to, so i kept shorting out and popping fuses. The car had to spend the night at Target on its maiden voyage out to town because of this. Thanx a ton to Joe and Paul over at Dezod for helping me brainstorm on possible culprits to this problem.


So anyways, back to the kit. This kit runs STRONG!! The base map is exactly what it means, pretty base . Runs very rich under full throttle in boost and boggles a little in between gears. Getting a custom retune hopefully in 2 short weeks (gotta baby it til' then). Did the install entirely myself and only had minor issues. The biggest was a small fitment issue with the wastegate to the manifold and the dump flange into the downpipe. Wasnt' exactly perfect but after a bit of persuasion, i got it to see things my way, haha. Install went very smooth, however it was a pain in the neck, LITERALLY:







I pulled a muscle , or rather the doc said it was a muscle spasm from extreme exersion. (I look awful cuz i just woke up from trying to sleep in the neck brace all night. I guess that's what you get after lying on concrete all day. Haha, but in all seriousness the install went very very smoothly :D.


So impression of the kit thus far:


The turbo is LOUD. VERY LOUD! With the closed dump you can hear the compressor spooling up and screaming right in your ear! The bov, OMG! The BOV is the loudest freaking thing i've ever heard! (HKS SSQV with purple insert). The best part about the kit is the a/r housing on the exhaust side. It's a .48a/r and builds boost VERY quickly. You can build a pound or two simply by reving up on it. This is very very exciting to me because i use to have a turbocharged civic. I had a ball bearing garret T25 on it but the exhaust housing was an .80a/r which you could redline the car by reving up on it and build absolutely no boost what so ever. So with this turbo you can give it a nice good rev and PSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH! SWEET! Very very nice for when you want to "communicate" on the street . The car pulls very hard but with an AFR of ~10.5 there's lots more power to be gained with a retune.

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Here's the secret to making all the POWER:

 

Looks good. Congrats again.

 

Niiiice man. Glad it's working out well for you!

 

Awesome write up... good luck with everything.. I will be going ZPI all motor(long block stage 2) and Turbo sometime in the next year...

 

The Dezod kit should come with a disclamer that says

WARNING!! Before pressing gas pedal, be sure to firmly press your head agisnt the head rest- Or else you will end up like this...

 

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Problem area pictures? Plz?

 

/\/\ I will as soon as my neck get better. Last thing i need is to crawl under the car and have it go out again

 

Dood that kit looks sick man, happy boosting.

 

hold on one second! you put that sillicone sealent stuff on the INSIDE of your oil pan?!

UH OH! that cant be good..... not to mention the over applied sealent around the pan.... thats all going to end up in your engine oil!

and to think we were worried about teflon! LOL

 

WTF are you talking about? You need to make a bead around the pan, for the oil pan to seal...

 

i know, but look how much he used... not to mention he used some on the inside of the pan where the hot oil will actually be TOUCHING... ouch..

 

you dont think the hot oil would touch it when its making a gasket?

 

look under the car man and check for leak were u punched the pan cause i had alot of problems with that just looking out for u, i had to get the supercharger pan.

 

No leaks, i've kept a close eye on everything

 

It will hold