Interest in Bolt on Turbo kit?

[econti]

Will you sell parts of the kit?
I'm interested in piping for everything, injectors, oil feed/return. No chip or anything as I'm going standalone. Can you also make the manifold suit a GT2554? Or is that too difficult. Obviously would need adjustments to the price

[Threehz]

A continuous line of drool has followed me around since this thread was posted. I'm going to need to sell a hell of a lot of tees to make this happen!

[MikeW]

Cat delete is all,


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[dpmcdonald]

What have you guys done for the exhaust with this kit? Full custom? Fab up to stock?

[jakeb]

If I had a car I would build one.

[Todd Black 88]

Jake.

How about a bolt on s14 turbo kit......huh......huh......huh.......yeah......you wannnnnna.

[jakeb]

I just finished installing Jakes kit, it took me about 3 days to work out all the bugs, but i had never done anything like this before so somebody with a little bit of experience could probably do it much faster. Jake was awesome answering all my questions and walking me through the process, he always got back to me and we even shared a few laughs during the build. Here is my build thread, its not very in-depth but it does show some of the work i put into my E30 Adams E30 thread

The car is amazing to drive now, its so fast i have a hard time driving it in the city and not getting carried away, before i know it I'm going way too fast. Ive previously owned a wrx and a 2.5 rs and this is way faster than both of them. currently on a e36 steering rack, uhmw subframe bushings, h&r/billys. This car handles amazingly and goes like hell! Jakes kit came with absolutely everything i needed and nothing i didn't. there was no modifying to do to parts on the kit, and no oil leaks! The reason i didn't put all the parts together myself because I'm just not that knowledgeable about what parts go where or how to find the right ones, jakes kit took those headaches out of the equation, i didn't have to buy parts i didn't need or were the wrong fit, and i didn't have to worry about blowing up the motor trying to tune it or damaging something by pushing it too hard. With the plug in chip i was confident when i started it for the first time that everyn
now when I'm having a stressful day a smile is only 2nd gear away.

Thanks for the nice review man!

[Adam?]

I just finished installing Jakes kit, it took me about 3 days to work out all the bugs, but i had never done anything like this before so somebody with a little bit of experience could probably do it much faster. Jake was awesome answering all my questions and walking me through the process, he always got back to me and we even shared a few laughs during the build. Here is my build thread, its not very in-depth but it does show some of the work i put into my E30 Adams E30 thread

The car is amazing to drive now, its so fast i have a hard time driving it in the city and not getting carried away, before i know it I'm going way too fast. Ive previously owned a wrx and a 2.5 rs and this is way faster than both of them. currently on a e36 steering rack, uhmw subframe bushings, h&r/billys. This car handles amazingly and goes like hell! Jakes kit came with absolutely everything i needed and nothing i didn't. there was no modifying to do to parts on the kit, and no oil leaks! The reason i didn't put all the parts together myself because I'm just not that knowledgeable about what parts go where or how to find the right ones, jakes kit took those headaches out of the equation, i didn't have to buy parts i didn't need or were the wrong fit, and i didn't have to worry about blowing up the motor trying to tune it or damaging something by pushing it too hard. With the plug in chip i was confident when i started it for the first time that everything would work properly. AND IT DID!
now when I'm having a stressful day a smile is only 2nd gear away.

[dpmcdonald]

Anymore updates from those of you with this kit?

[jakeb]

Ok think I'm ready to pull trigger on this can we talk?

Best to email me. Jake@classicdaily.net

I am placing an order tomorrow for turbos/intercoolers/etc etc

[jrockbk]

Ok think I'm ready to pull trigger on this can we talk?

[brads2002]

Good call on the m20. I actually did a few of those several years back. I remember going from hex to torq heads. Thanks forgot all about it. One. At a time to the specific stretch torque.

[whodwho]

Can the headbolts be replaced with out removing the head or damaging the existing seal? Wonder what would happen if you did them one at a time.

This can be done, it was common practice at the dealer when there was an issue with headbolts on the M20.

You remove, replace and torque them one at a time, you can do them in the order of the torque sequencebut not sure that really matters. But it is best to blow out each hole before putting a new headbolt/stud so there is no oil or you can crack the block.

[16v_e30]

Oh, and I actually have one of Jake's kits, and installed head studs as well, with all new gaskets. I haven't driven it much because I have oil leak problems, and I was still breaking in the clutch, but it drives AWESOME. I also have a 2004 wrx with a 20g turbo, and the m42T is much more driveable. There's torque everywhere and it feels super smooth. I wasn't going to chime in until I've had the full experience, but I figured I'd share what I had. Build quality on all the parts were very high, and Jake was more than very highly helpful in the process, and very quick to return emails.

[16v_e30]

Can the headbolts be replaced with out removing the head or damaging the existing seal? Wonder what would happen if you did them one at a time.

There's a specific torque sequence which needs to be followed for the head studs. You cannot follow this sequence unless you have all the new hardware in place at the same time.

Can you install them without removing the head? Yes. Probability of head gasket failure? High.

It's really not all that difficult to remove the head, I would just do that and play it safe with a new HG.