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Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses
Pricing has everything to do with the FI game, IMO. However, I suggest the both of you step back and don't turn this thread into a doody pile, please.
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I honestly said nothing to warrant his stupid little outburst lol.
Anyways, I think the innovate kit is specific to certain people is what i'm saying, that don't want to go overboard with power. I could have bought a turbo kit and almost did, but this car is too new to just throw 500whp at it everyday.
I don't look at the price, I look at what I want in the kit first. Sure it was cheaper, but I knew going into it that with the intercooler kit i'd be probably even with a bunch of other kits, and I was ok with that. I don't mind spending the money, its a car, thats what we all do. If I sell it, I sell it, and move on with something else.
Calum - Innovate said the reason the fittings were coming loose was because after the elbow was heat cycled they would cause them to move. They now heat cycle (i'm assuming the back elbow piece which hold the fittings on) it and claim no more issues.
Even so, all you would have to do before putting the supercharger on is remove those 3 fittings, throw teflon on them, and tighten them back up. Its only a PITA once the supercharger is on because theres no room to get those off without taking the elbow off the back off (which would literally take 2 minutes with the sc on a bench).
I can't really comment on the allen bolts. Two of mine broke after taking the supercharger off and putting the intercooler on there. Maybe I over torqued them? idk. But they did send me like 20 new bolts.
I'm not sure who else had a coolant leak, but this only applies obviously if you go with the intercooler kit. I happened to have a leak at the t fitting up top that they preclamp prior to sending it to you. I called Innovate, and they sent me worm drive clamps that I then used to fix it, and haven't had an issue since. So those pre installed clamps must have not been tight enough.
One or two owners have had some bad luck (like Ryan86) and had a whole slew of issues happen. Others, like me, nothing really that would make me kick and scream about.
But basically all these issues can be nipped right off the bat now that the information has been out. It was why I was kind of pissed when I found out that aftermarket map sensors are causing issues with the intercooler kit on there, since tuners and others knew about it, yet I saw nothing posted about it (or if it was, it wasn't made to be a big deal - maybe i missed it, the Innovate thread IS pretty long).