MilehighGT
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I made the decision to upgrade from my paxton into a turbo kit earlier this year. Car had been at 675 wheel on e85 and an AED tune. Ran a 10.71@136 with this setup at 7k+ DA. Regardless, I was looking for more. I did quite a bit of research before going with a CPR single.
Car has been done for a few months but I wanted to post this up as I haven't seen many of these build threads in particular on S197forum.
First off, the quality of this kit is really impressive. I went with the 76/83 turbo with the 1.10 housing given my power goals. In addition to the quality, the knowledge and help that Dustin provided has been awesome, learned more in these few months than I ever thought I would. Install was done in my garage with basic tools, absolutely doable by the average gear head.
Forgive the attachments as opposed to embedding, working off my phone.
First pic is the way I supported the motor, using a ratchet tie down around the crank with light pressure, with most of the support coming from the bell housing with a jack.
Then dropped the stock k member with steering rack. This allowed the room to pull the factory headers as well as prep the new k member to go in.
Car has been done for a few months but I wanted to post this up as I haven't seen many of these build threads in particular on S197forum.
First off, the quality of this kit is really impressive. I went with the 76/83 turbo with the 1.10 housing given my power goals. In addition to the quality, the knowledge and help that Dustin provided has been awesome, learned more in these few months than I ever thought I would. Install was done in my garage with basic tools, absolutely doable by the average gear head.
Forgive the attachments as opposed to embedding, working off my phone.
First pic is the way I supported the motor, using a ratchet tie down around the crank with light pressure, with most of the support coming from the bell housing with a jack.
Then dropped the stock k member with steering rack. This allowed the room to pull the factory headers as well as prep the new k member to go in.