I managed to get it on with an incredible amount of force. Then the front became the an issue once I got the rears to go. I thought I was going to break the TB from the amount of force. But it on there now. Those having problems should voice out their problems. If I ever break down on a road trip taking off the blower will not longer be a simple task. I will have to carry a craw bar with me all the time if I ever want to get the blower back on once I release the tension between all the bolts. Charles needs to double check his tooling since something is not lining up right.
Thats why I wanted to know if others are having issues. And it seems some are, I had no problems with the MPIII when the nose slipped.
But I got it on. The rears gave me the most trouble and the modifications fot the manifold was only in the front, So we cannot blame my manifold too much.
I bolted down the rears first so i hope I dont have any warpage.
I managed to get it on with an incredible amount of force. Then the front became the an issue once I got the rears to go. I thought I was going to break the TB from the amount of force. But it on there now. Those having problems should voice out their problems. If I ever break down on a road trip taking off the blower will not longer be a simple task. I will have to carry a craw bar with me all the time if I ever want to get the blower back on once I release the tension between all the bolts. Charles needs to double check his tooling since something is not lining up right.
Pushing the blower sideways to make them line up was the biggest issue, It seems that the case is bigger "wider" and touching the fuel lines the bar was used to line up the bosses with the holes on the sc. Once lined up bolting down was not a big problems.
I did not use any excessive force on the bolts to tighten them down. I used a small allen wrench on the back ones and a regular ratchet on the big ones. I already ran the car and the blower was nice and quiet, No rattle of anykind like the old set up had.
As much I like to take all of your advice. I dont see myself taking it off again "Knock on Wood"
No road testing yet. But I noticed the boost builds like crazy when I rev the car. Even the snow system activates, I dont remember the snow system being triggered that early by just reving the car. I went with the solid coupler again this time around. It seems to operate very smooth.
I porting hint for those doing it at home, use machining oil or at least any kind of oil, I had a hard time keeping the bits from getting clogged with aluminum, until my neighbor told me to use some oil on it, It worked great and the bits stayed nice and clean, too bad I was almost done by the time I learned this trick.
Lets use smileys for SC inlet ports
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If this is a standard occurance, I think we found the cause for MPx problems.
Be more specific about this. Not sure what other problems you are refering to.
BTW my marbles came back