So I've been taking pictures of my progress on my Supercharged setup, and will use this thread to document my progress.

I bought the kit from 8000RPM on here, I believe before he had it (never installed) it was owned by Boostedtaco. Anyhow its a Comptech kit with the Novi 1000 blower, aftercooled, etc. I decided rather than leave stock I was going to upgrade a few of the pieces, so I ordered the following:

• SOS Racing Heat Exchanger
• Bosch 0392022002 (Cobra/Lightning) Water Pump
• SOS 3.4" (9 psi) pulley
• Injector Dynamics 1000cc injectors w/ Plug n Play harnesses
• NGK Iridium IX No.7 plugs
• SOS Sports Clutch
• SOS Lightweight Flywheel (11.5 lbs)
• SOS Single Gauge Pod
• AEM Failsafe Gauge (AFR/Boost in one gauge)
• Koyo Radiator
• PLM Header
• MY03 Clutch Slave Cylinder (to remove CDV)

Some pictures of the parts:



Started off by removing the airbox (K&N FIPK in my case):


Then had to remove the front bumper to install the upgraded Heat Exchanger:

 

After removing the front bumper I encountered my first problem, the SOS Heat Exchanger mounts using 3 aluminum L brackets. Two Smaller ones that mount to the side frame rails, and a larger one that mounts to the support that runs down the middle in front of the radiator. Well I received Two Large brackets and One small bracket... instructions do not specify which brackets to use, so I spent a couple of unproductive hours trying to mount the Heat Exchanger without any success. Somewhere along the line I figured out what the issue was, and instead of waiting a few days for SOS to ship me another one, I decided to fabricate my own.



Went to Home Depot and bought some Aluminum Stock, cut it down to size, bent to the right angle, and drilled the holes.



After that the install went like a breeze



Here you can see the fabricated bracket

 

Next up was the radiator, removed the stock unit (the top hose was a PITA to remove)



Crazy how dirty these things get



Here is the nice new (clean) Koyo radiator



Fortunately this install went without a hitch, other than having to order the Koyo Radiator cap (figured it would be included?!?)

 

Up next was removing the stock Comptech pulley for the high boost SOS piece



Ended up having to rent a Pulley puller from Auto Zone to get the stock pulley off, it was stuck on there very tightly (see rust on the shaft)



New Pulley Installed, ready to be mounted to the car

 

Up next was the removal of the Crankshaft Pulley and mounting the modified Pulley that is modified to accept the blower drive pulley. I don't have any pictures of this part but it took a special Honda Pulley, two breaker bars, and a cheater bar to remove the pulley bolt (I hear it takes 250+ ft. lbs to get this off). Fortunately I was prepared for this part, so it was relatively painless other than the fact that it takes a whole lot of force to get that bolt loose.

Once the bolt is off, getting the blower drive pulley mounted is a pain, there's not a ton of space between the pulley and the cross member, and the hex bolts are hard to tighten.

Regardless got it on and started the mounting of the blower... what a huge PITA. The blower mounts to a VTEC sandwich plate that is installed between the VTEC Solenoid and the engine block (this is where the blower feeds oil from) as well as through the top alternator bolt, and lastly a lower bolt that mounts into the engine. Each bolt also has come rubber isolator bushings that must be mounted properly, and getting that bottom bolt with anything other than tiny hands is hugely difficult. Luckily my wife came to the rescue and after much cursing and sweating, the blower was mounted.

 

looks like the washer on the charger pulley is upside down. glad your making progress

 

This past weekend I mounted the Aftercooler, Air Box, Water Pump, and routed the lines from the Heat Exchanger to the pump and Aftercooler.

This would have been done much quicker, but I discovered that I was missing two clamps, and the ones I had bought from AutoZone were not the correct size. Fortunately O'Reilly's had the right clamps, and after that the install went as expected.





I ended up having to get creative with the mounting of the Bosch water pump, my original install location was not optimal, so had to move it forward and finished securing it with some zip ties (along with the supplied clamp and self tapping screws)



Had to do some trimming of the hoses to get a good fit.

 

Up next is the install of the plugs, injectors, clutch, flywheel, and slave master cylinder (going to also re-grease the shifter and change out the tranny fluid while I'm at it).

 

Seriously?

Can I remove it and reverse it without taking it all apart?

Forgot to mention thanks to Matt (s2k manic) and Nate @ Comptech for all their help and support.

 

man I hate to say this but you may have wanted to do the clutch first