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im hating tsi more and more everyday...lucky i dont fly to cali and killem all. o yeah and you dont have to remove the bolt next to the alt. you just have to shave the manifold down in the corner and it will fit fine.
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should come from this vacuume line. one to your BOV, one to your fuel comp, and one to a boost gauge if you have one. The boost controller should tie in between the line comming from the turbo to the waist gate. here.
we have been installing this kit on a customers car for 2 weeks now. (2002 civic LX) the issues we have had so far:
the manifold required grinding on the drivers side top and side corner. we took about a 1/4 inch out of the cast iron and its still a tight fit.
the alternator and AC heat sheild needed to be bent slightly to get enough room for the wastegate housing.
the AC system had to be removed as there was not enough room for the intercooler or oil cooler with the ac condencer where it was. also, the hotpipe to the intercooler went right where the ac compressor was. theres nothing in the instructions that say this kit is not to be used on a car quiped with AC. there simply is just no way that it can be made to work with AC.
the hotpipe (turbo to intercooler) also had to be trimed in several places to clear the downpipe and still make the angle to meet the u shaped charge pipe to the intercooler.
the oil pressure feed adapter didnt fit between the block and the intake manifold, and adtional 90 degree fitting had to be installed to make it work.
the washer bottle had to be moved up about an inch to make the charge pipes line up enough that they could actualy be conected with the short silicone couplers that they supplyed.
the upper charge pipe needed to be cut and exteded in order to reach the throttle body elbow.
the throttle body elbow needed to be trimed on the throttle body side in order to clear the hood.
the throttle body heater hoses needed to be extended because they did not fit after the injector plate was installed.
annnnnd....... the wireing... the main componenets are prity easy to figure out were they go, but there are no instructions for the wireing. the injector block box installed like a turbo timer so that wasnt too bad. other things like rpm signal was easy to find, but then the box has 4 brown wires and the diagram on the back of the box says to conect them to the injector. but... whitch injector? (s?) there are four wires, so i asuume each brown wire goes to one of the four wires from the two aux injectors.
we got everything installed two nights ago. at first there was a security fault and the car would not turn over. after we fixed that we cranked the motor for a few minuets to get the oil moving around into the new filter and oil cooler and turbo before we tryed to start the car. at that time the turbo timer function of the injector box was working. then we tryed starting the car and the car would start but die right away. we removed the wires that go to the map sensor and reset the ecu and clearded the code and it strated up and idled fine, but when the key was turned off, the car continued to run. and run.. and run. for 10 min it didnt turn off. we messed with the controller for some time changing the turbo timer valvues but it never turned off. we i ended up pulling the ecu fuse in the engine bay.
were still geting a check engine code witch turned out to be a ELD sensor. were replacing that tonight.
iv tryed calline TSI 3 times today. i get a AT&T message that says the number isnt in service. iv emailed them thismorning, no respoce.
as a busnessman, i would never recomend that anyone get this turbo kit. the very first thing im recomending to the customer is to get an e-manage.
there are some legality issues too with this kit... theres nothing that says this cit is CARB aproved, and by installing this kit you are removing your catilitic converter. witch is a prity hefty fine. some shops may not touch this kit for those reasons..
/\/\/\ Took us 2 weeks to install my tsi kit as well. Biggest problems we had were fitment of the charge pipes, so we made our own, then had to shave the manifold, then the biggest problem was getting my lazy azz buddy over to the shop to help.
got pics? sucks turbo speciality's is a bunch of a-holes and dont pick up or call back. they did that to we for 3 weeks. they run such a great busniess.
I had a similar problem with the turbo timer, wasn't nearly as long, like 2-3 minutes. I figured since there is a wire from the icu that connects to the e-brake light, that when the e-brake is down the circuit will be disconnected and the turbo timer will not work. So I put the e-brake down and the engine shut off.
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