What was the hardest part about the install?

 

pump

 

Is that the fuel pump?

 

^^^ if its the fuel pump than yea it probably is the hardest part seeing as how you have to either lean over like a hunchback inside of the car or crawl and position yourself like a snake in the trunk.....either way my back was in pain for a bit.......

 

gotta be the fuel pump.

I rather take the valve train off than the fuel pump

 

I've installed this kit more times than I can count including an install this last Saturday.

I would say the Aftercooler most definately is the hardest to install. It requires drilling, alignment and the attachment and proper placement of the hoses so they don't kink. You have to remove the bumper, cut the side plastic liner for the hose AND you have to lift the radiator to drill and bolt the mounts for the radiator. PITA!!!

I would install 4-5 fuel pumps before installing another Aftercooler....

JMHO....

 

Jeez, am i the only one who doesn't think the fuel pump was any big deal? Maybe i'm just the right size physically, but i thought it was pretty easy. I installed my kit by myself and i thought by far the hardest part was putting in the charger and bracket. Probably would've been easier w/ some help though.

 

For me, the hardest part was getting the crankshaft pulley off. If I'd thought more and pried on the breaker bars less I'd have realized that an overnight soaking an a good penetrating oil was in order, but I wasn't on the ball enough to think of it until after the fact. Soak that bolt down good the day before you do the install, and as long as you have the right tools you won't have the kind of grief I had.

To get the fuel pump in you have to be a contortionist, and at my age there is just NO WAY, so I had a much younger friend take care of both that and the under dash work for me. He had NO problems with the pump install, but we had a hard time getting the solider in the connectors to melt (even though we were using a commercial heat gun). Will (the guy doing the work) was trying to use a sheet of copper to keep the heat off the rest of the wiring harness, and was sinking too much heat away from the connectors, so this too is a problem you can easily avoid.

Everything else was straightforward, but I was not happy with the hoses Comptech supplied for the aftercooler. Because I wanted to make the kit work I spent way too much time trying to get the hoses routed without some kinking, and in the end I had to buy molded hoses and cobble up a "custom solution." I'm not absolutely sure that the three 90-degree bends I used don't offer as much restriction as the slightly kinked hoses, but I feel better knowing that the hoses aren't partially collapsed, and my aftercooler seems to be working extremely well.

Read the install threads here on S2kI, and print out color copies of the Comptech instructions (available on their Web site), and you shouldn't have any major problems (as long as you can get a contortionist to install the pump ). Allow more time than you expect the job to take, and take as much time as you need to study the instructions before you start.

Good luck! You're gonna fall in love with the car all over again when you're done.

 

100%

Absolutely! A second set of hands makes the job MUCH easier.

 

Thanks for the input guys.