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My kraftwerks install review. The roller coaster I never want to ride again.
First starting out it should be known that I bought my kit from a friend who did not install the kit. Brand new in box.
Starting on Friday me and a friend tore into the install. The instructions are ok for the first few parts but need some polish. The first setback was the crank pulley bolt. I had installed the Perrin crank pulley a year or so ago and it refused to come off. Using the biggest breaker bar that could fit in the garage and not hit the ceiling it let go with a snap. I thought I broke the bolt. Luckily it was just the bolt had seized to the anodized aluminum of the Perrin pulley.
I examine the bolt, no issues, torque to factory spec which I found online as 95ftlbs. Tip Kraftwerks, seeing “Torque to factory spec” is infuriating. I understand professional installation is required but do us all a favor and put what the torque value is. Throw us a bone.
Everything is going to plan until mounting the plate to the engine. Missing the M10 25mm 1.25 bolt. Fuck. Not in any of the boxes. Dead in the water at 11pm on friday.
So I get up at 6am saturday and head to Home Depot. They have an M10 25mm bolt but it’s 1.50 thread pitch. I’m screwed. So I stand in the isle and manage to find a grade 8 bolt that is a little longer but will work.
We begin working on the car at 8 am with some help from friends. Everything goes smoothly until burping the oil for the supercharger.
The method of unplugging the injectors is terrible. We skipped it. Holding down the gas pedal 100% will turn the car over without fuel. Why not suggest that method?
I digress. We end up flooding the engine somehow. I think I know why…
I had my tune from delicious on friday. The only problem is that around 2pm I get a text from Visconti asking about my MAP sensor. Asking which one I had. Told him 4bar honda. He’s like wut? So I send him pics. He says that’s the 2 bar.
So when I bought the kit my friend upgraded to the 4 bar but when I got it from him only got the 2 bar. No worries. John sends me a tune, the car fires right up. It’s pissed because it was drowning in gas but it clears it fast. We spend the next 15 minutes adding and checking oil levels until it’s good. Used almost the whole bottle.
Visconti asks for idle and putz logs. We putz it around the neighborhood and send him logs. We put the front bumper on and it goes on without a single issue. I get a new tune from Visconti, asks for WOT logs. I take it to the highway on ramp and do 2 logs. Come back home and send logs and wait.
Take shower, go get food. Car is driving fine. Get call from Visconti, says everything looks really good and that the tune I’m on was crafted after he spent the previous week doing a dyne tune for the same kit. So I’m on my way home and hear a weird noise. Like odd belt noise.
Pull over, pop hood, kraftwerks belt is coming off main pulley .The pulley bolt is coming out. Panic sets in. Get a friend to pick me up, get all the tools i can carry and we undo all the bolts and check it. It’s fine, just came out. We get the belts off and this time torque to 125ftlbs. Start the car, no issues. Cogged belt is a little chewed up so now I need a new one but it’s not bad at all.
Let this be a lesson. I could have lost my car because of this. There needs to be some major bold or red text on the pulley part. Torque amounts must be in the instructions. Had that bolt come fully out my car would be dead.
I need a new cogged belt, will replace my stock belt at the same time, and new under ware.
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