The Kit:
Yep,...... it's the kit I have put down and bashed a lot on here. Most of you probably remember it and I said I'd never buy this kit because for 4k (at that time) you'd only be making measly power over stock.
Well times have changed havn't they. This Greddy kit is not the stock greddy kit nor is it Chickenwafer's old Greddy GT3071R Kit. (Missed that deal by a few hours) This is the stock Greddy turbo with upgraded internals. IIRC it has upgraded turbine and compressor wheels, clipped turbine wheel, and ported wastegate. Couplers and hose clamps have also been swapped out for higher quality ones. The previous owner of the kit was putting down 282RWHP and 242WTQ with a rich tune, WG issues, and stock injectors. He never dynoed after fixing the WG and upgrading the injectors but felt a noticable bump in power.
Install:
Everything for the most part went really smooth. I'll tell you what, doing this install on a lift makes it 40x's faster than trying to do this install on the ground, on a steep driveway. (RX-7Chris and RX8Ghost know what I speak of)
The turbo and exhaust manifold install was a breeze. There were struggles with fitting some pipes to the turbo because of tight quarters under the 8 but it wasn't too bad. All major componentes (Exhaust Mani., Turbo, and Pipng) went on rather quickly. Most time consuming process was actually putting all the small parts together and doing some custom fabrications done by my brother. Doing the injector install took me some time.
Install was done at my most favorite shop of all. My brothers house.
Fabrication Work:
Well we wasted a good deal of time on a wild goose chase for a day or two trying to find a adapters for the Greddy Oil Filter Adapter Plate. The threads were metric and the threads I got from my gauges to run my Oil Temp and Pressure were Standard thread. After a day of searching there is nowhere that sells Metric to standard adapters. So in the end we tapped and re-threaded the holes slightly larger to accept the Standard adapter my gauges came with.
The second thing we needed to fix was the oil return for the turbo. Greddy wants you to use their fitting that screws into the oild drain plug. Well the guy I got the kit from didn't send that peice. He accidentaly sent it out with his Greddy Oil Pan he had sold. Go figure that no hardeware store or shop has metric barb. (Now that I think about it I thin an Import shop would have had what I needed.) Well we got a bung and a 5/8 barb from Ontrack (Off Santa Fe and Dartmouth.) We welded a bung in to the oil pan next to the oil drain plug. Our first attempt at it was an epic fail. We were so tired that we welded the bung in bass ackwards. (It's only threaded partway through. Woops. After scrapping ideas of how to cut it out and start again we came to the conclusion that you can't without destroying the pan. So we wasted another day calling around yards for a used pan. We even called dealers to see if they had any used pans lying around. Best they had was a new pan that was 3 days away (Special order) for $2xx or Overnighted for another $30. After talking to our buddy at buds muffler he said, "why not use a hole saw?" Light bulbs clicked and we ran out and got a new bung and a hole saw. We drilled out the old bung and viola, epic fail fixed.
The next thing we did was chop up the Mazdaspeed Intake. One cut and we had what we needed. The original plan was to custom make a pipe and not cut the MS intake pipe but we decided to take the easier route.
We also fabbed new brackets to bring the intercooler under the bumper bar, instead of behind it, and more forward. I'ts not the exact way I would like it but it works. This needed to be done to allow the MS intake filter to fit in it's intended location.
Picutres:
Test fit of teh IC at my house with the Greddy Brackets.
Custom IC Brackets
The Epic Fail and finished return line
Engine Bay
Custom Fiberglassed Lotek gauge pod. I did this back in March/April
And the final product outside
If it was any lower I would never be able to drive it. I't barley made it onto the drive way and onto the lift.
