12/16/2006: Work in Progress....................

The holiday is around the corner and I finally got some needed rest time from work.

One of the most common step overlooked when piecing a turbo kit together is parts inventory. You will save yourself a lot of time and wasted gas on those trips to the auto parts store. It's hard to visualize what it will look like until you have a total layout of the kit. Here I dry fitted the kit together and count all the needed t-bolt clamps and silicone joints.

One thing worth mentioning about buying intercooler kit on Ebay; It doesn't matter how application specific was the kit designed, you will need to fabricate parts and add pieces to complete your custom setup at the end. The layout shown is still a very rough estimate of how the kit should be put together. The hot charge pipe from the turbo to the intercooler and the cold charge pipe from the intercooler to the throttle body are purchased separately aside from the complete s14 intercooler kit. The piping the came with the kit were a little bit small for my taste and they were toss in favor of these.

the intake from the turbo is actually a cold air intake kit that came with pipe, filter, silicone, and filter adapter to the MAF sensor. There is a specific intake kit for the SR20DET but that would have cost almost $200. The cold air intake kit is under $40. The piping can be trimmed and cut to custom tailor fit the car.