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Originally Posted by official_george
I admit I'm not that good with mechanical stuff, but I picked up some knowledge from my dad and from reading online. Here's my list of accomplishments and experience regarding automotive:
- Replaced a Civic's starter.
- Retrofitted a few pairs of Scion tC headlights.
- Installed a CAI and axleback exhaust.
- Changed the oil of family cars more than a dozen times.
- Rotated the tires of an old car.
- Knows the basic of how an engine works. The tranny, not so much.
Do you think I am ready to install a turbo/supercharger kit by my own? Or should I hire a pro? |
No.. Not even close.. I'm a ASE tech, and this is some advice I can give you... If you have to ask, then your not ready.. Doing things like this, even if you've never done it before, should be.. Like common sense.. I can look at a part and after examining it, know what it does, where it should go and how it should function.. Being around this stuff for so long teaches you it.. It's YOUR car and YOUR engine.. If YOU was going to install any FI then the vortech would be the only kit I'd suggest you go with.. Not that the turbos are not easy to install, but you have a better chance of botching a TC kit then a sc kit.. Mess a vacuum line up on a turbo, and I've seen them go boom.. Even tho all the kits are very user friendly in my eyes.. Doesn't make them that way in a guy who has never done anything like this...
If you want your car to last, want it done right pay someone.. If you wanna take a chance, the maybe go the vortech route
Not trying to be disrespectful in any way.. Just putting it out there.. Even kits that are being installed by professional shops, are on here with blown motors.. Guy had a shop here install a kit and lasted 10 mins, and this shop knows what they are doing, have many many high HP built subies and evos and Hondas, a handful of well known race cars.. And something went wrong there
So remember, if you wanna go FI, there is a chance, how ever small it might be, but there is a chance it goes all wrong.. Gotta be ready and willing to accept that.. If not then bolt ons are the way to go
My 2 cents