Topic: Super Charger Installation Fun/Aggrevation

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Preamble

Well, it had been sitting on the garage floor for several months.  Last weekend's forecast was quite a bit cooler than it had been, so I thought it was time to Git Er Done!

I thought I could start on this on Saturday morning and get it done Sunday, possibly if things went well wrap up on Saturday evening.  After all, I had assisted in removing this thing from KY Bob's AV, and as the new ower of his AV, I had some residual evidence of how it was installed.  I was optimistic.

In part 1 I will share my installation experience, day 1.

[Zora Arkus-Duntov]

 

[Main One]

I actually did some work on the truck last Friday night, so Day 1 will cover those activities.  At least that day went well.

[KY_BOB]

Considering I've been through this myself, I'm looking forward to reading this.   

[Enkei]

 We wait for this one.....   

[MyBigToy]

You should just put it back on Bob's truck and give Yeller to your son. Bob's has a lot fewer miles on it. So are you doing it by yourself or do you have some help?

I will also be watching this one, most likely with some amusement. 

[AHNAML]

  count me in on the show.

[Alaska_AV]

May you have much suckcess

[MyBigToy]

May you have much suckcess

     Hoping someone else has some of the frustration you've had modding, are you?

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Part 1 - Day 1

This was last Friday evening after work.  I wanted to get the boost and fuel pressure gauges that Bob included installed so that I could take advantage of the info they would provide.  I had received a 2-gauge a-pillar cover, with Bose tweeter hole, and was ready to go.  I decided how I wanted to run my power, ground, signal wires, and vacuum/boost tubing up behind the cover and started soldering at the kitchen table.  Bob had butchered his original a-pillar cover some and I wanted to do a neater job.  I ended up drilling two 7/16 holes (through the original cover) to feed the two gauges and dressed each with a small grommet.  If I ever wanted to demod like Bob had done, I wanted to have the original cover look pretty decent if possible.  Bob had used several barbed plastic push-pin type fasteners to hold the gauge cover up against the original cover - I decided to try 2-sided foam tape.  After getting the new cover in place over the original, I realized that with the gauges in it the tape was not going to hold up the weight.  I decided to drill a hole through both covers near the top and pretty close to the windshield, and installed a plastic push-in rivet fastener.  I think the install looks pretty good - I need to take and post a pic.  For power, I soldered the power lead to the same fuse tap I was using for my backup monitor, and also grounded to the same place - both are behind the driver's side fuse panel cover.  I decided to run the signal wires and tubing through the firewall behind the parking brake pedal.  That spot seemed pretty convenient to get to - just pulled back the carpet some after removing the kick panel besides the parking brake, and on the other side pulled out of few the plastic rivets holding in the plastic fender liner behind the front tire - driver's side and pulled back the liner.  I decided I'd tackle drilling the hole in the morning, and use the same size gromment as I had used in the a-cover pillar.

So far, everything was going well.