Just wanted to share my experience installing my turbo, I am by no means an expert or that gifted of mechanic, but i have learned tons from this and gathered a whole lot more information from this site.
I purchased the CXracing t4 70 turbo kit ( I know booo!) the kit included an intercooler and skid plate, I liked the idea but after I started routing the pipes I got to thinking I am going to tear these things off when I go adventuring, I beat the crap out of my rig pretty regularly, it is a toy/hobby not my daily. So as you can see I went full chop shop and started gutting things like the cruise control and washer fluid res to make room for the intercooler, ended up fitting pretty well..ended up buying a new Greedy BOV and used PT turbo blankets on the turbo and down pipe all the way to where the cats used to be. Installed a wide band sensor so we could read air to fuel ratios, and currently working on getting the tune hooked up and programmed, I bought the mega squirt 3 and my friend whom co-owns a hot rod shop (midwestmegasquirt) is doing my tune. Waiting on my tune to get finished, but before that it ran really hard, pulled great at 3.5-4K, absolutely guzzled gas, I did have a bout of excessive heat temps under the hood, it would take the engine bay hours to cool off, I changed my external waste gate spring from a 10# to a 5# and now it cools down like it did stock.
other work performed:
had the head reworked
arp head studds
cometic mls gastket
replaced all hoses and filters
new radiator
blue clutch fan
new water pump
no clue money wise what i have in this thing but i know for sure it was more than my 3k budget. OOPS
I purchased the CXracing t4 70 turbo kit ( I know booo!) the kit included an intercooler and skid plate, I liked the idea but after I started routing the pipes I got to thinking I am going to tear these things off when I go adventuring, I beat the crap out of my rig pretty regularly, it is a toy/hobby not my daily. So as you can see I went full chop shop and started gutting things like the cruise control and washer fluid res to make room for the intercooler, ended up fitting pretty well..ended up buying a new Greedy BOV and used PT turbo blankets on the turbo and down pipe all the way to where the cats used to be. Installed a wide band sensor so we could read air to fuel ratios, and currently working on getting the tune hooked up and programmed, I bought the mega squirt 3 and my friend whom co-owns a hot rod shop (midwestmegasquirt) is doing my tune. Waiting on my tune to get finished, but before that it ran really hard, pulled great at 3.5-4K, absolutely guzzled gas, I did have a bout of excessive heat temps under the hood, it would take the engine bay hours to cool off, I changed my external waste gate spring from a 10# to a 5# and now it cools down like it did stock.
other work performed:
had the head reworked
arp head studds
cometic mls gastket
replaced all hoses and filters
new radiator
blue clutch fan
new water pump
no clue money wise what i have in this thing but i know for sure it was more than my 3k budget. OOPS