Ok so the UPS guy arrived with about 100 pounds of stuff for me today. I am a little intimidated but what the hell.......I can only screw it up so badly.




I installed the electronics a couple weeks ago, that seemed to go smoothly. I like the custom S2000 guage face on the PLX LCD multiguage.




I was thinking I would have trouble getting the big fat connector for the PLX wideband through the firewall and went through the main grommet, but had a decent idea how to get the big fat platic connector through. I thought that was going to be hard but I pulled all the wires out of the plastic connector and shoved them up the butt end of a hollow ink pen and taped it up. Punched it into the stretchy rubber grommet and pushed it through. It took all of five seconds to get it through the firewall. Works slick if someone needs to do this in the future, just make sure to write down how the wires go back into the connector.




I start the process tomorrow and think it will be a couple days given the number of parts. The picture does not do it justice, there are a lot of parts but reading through the directions, none of it seems particularly difficult.

Questions for those who have done this already.

So the blower is a sealed unit but I can for the life of me figure out how you would change the oil on it. Anyone know the procedure????????


My instructions did not come with the section for mounting the IC, but there was a note they were being revised and they would email them to me tomorrow. What do I fill it with??? And I assume the fill procedure is to take off the top hose and pour it in????

Thanks in advance. Wish me luck.

 

They include the cool dog too?

 

No, thats Chewbacca. He wants to help but has no thumbs. But I am trying to recruit other help with the promise of beer.

 

The service interval for the blower is 100k i think. Any tampering with the unit voids warranty is what i was told by SXM. So no need to worry about that part yet.

You can run about any coolant mixture in the IC as far as i know. Whatever your climate can handle. Make sure it isnt anything that will corrode the internals chemically though.

 

I was going to ask the same thing. How much HP does the dog option add?

Where did the AR gauge come from?

 

if it never gets below freezing, water and water wetter. thats what i run. otherwise, prestone 50/50 premix works fine

looking forward to your reaction once your all done

ps, dogs just chillin, haha!

 

The gauge is a PLX. Checkout plxdevices.com for info and you can find a video of their products on youtube.

Hey Camuman,

I noticed on your install pics you did some of the vacuum hoses different than the instructions. I may go a similar route to avoid the use of the vacuum distribution block. Is the actuator thingy on the blower connected to the vacuum hose barb on the throttle body on your setup?

 

i had krank vents, so those were routed differently originally, then i went with marks reccomendation. i will get an updated pic for you.

i used the vacuum block afterall. worked out well actually. that hose for the acuator should come off the vacuum block. that way the actuator never sees boost. vacuum opens it, and when you hit boost, that part then relies on the spring to stay closed.

 

Over the past week I have been talking to Moss about there manifold and the barb that is on it.


It turns out that the actuation bypass valve will NOT be damaged if it see positive pressure( contrary to my previous info I had) and if you have idle droop (common on front mount A2A roots setup) this barb when connected directly to the bypass prevents that idle droop.
That barb location increased the response time of the bypass valve in an idel droop situation.
Tested and confirmed on a A2A SOT roots setup on a Miata.
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Pre mixed coolant and water will work great with the A2W.
Nothing wrong with using the same premix that Honda uses in our radiators; this is the simple answer.


In climates that do not experience freezing a mixture of 5-15% coolant with distilled water is recommended. The antifreeze has anti corrosion components in it so it is best to have a little of it in the A2W cooling circuit.

My mix is 5% antifreeze and 95% distilled water.
Different antifreeze manufactures have different specification on anti freezing properties.
My current mix is good down to 0degF


In climates that experience well below freezing an appropriate mixture of antifreeze needs to be mixed in.

In any case recommend a bottle of water wetter for increased heat transfer.

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With Krankvents
with out Krank vents

or a combo of those with a catch can

Can all change the way the vacuum lines can be routed

It easer to show pictures in this case instead of words.

There are a couple of other configurations that will work however I don

 

These are some of the diagrams you should be seeing when you get the A2W instruction mailed to you. Once SOT gets done refining them.

Either way the front HX is the hardest part of the a2W install and I can talk you through that over the phone.

You don