Just spend all day today helping Wicked R get his setup apart so he could replace his .48 turbine housing with a .63 and MY GOD is it terrible. You can't get at any bolts! Everything is packed so tight in there it's ridiculous!

Had to vent about this. I would recommend if there was any way you could avoid using the FMAX turbo manifold, I would do it. I dunno how you FMAX guys take it! I thought 1 bolt where a crow's foot was needed on the T25 turbo elbow was bad! Yikes!

HAHAHA I have taken my setup apart 4 times in the last two months. You dont have to tell me.

It's not that bad! I just took everything apart yesterday, and put it back together, in about 4-6 hours. The only bitch is the lowest bolt on the downpipe to turbo flange, which you have to get finger tight, than slowly work at it in that small area. Besides that, the rest is a breeze. You guys may have been doing something the hard way, instead of the easier way. What did you have problems with?

Are you kiding. These cars are the easist thing in the world to work on besides Datsuns. Try putting a turbo kit on a 93 mustang. It took me an hour just to put the spark plugs in. We wont even talk about the manifolds.

I'm with Ben on this one! This is what I started screaming about the first time I bolted it on!! Since then I have had to remove the downpipe and install a new one. What sucks is that you have to start and tighten up both wastegate flanges (the upper one being a HUGE HUGE HUGE pain, using things like tape to stick the nuts on the wrench and magnets and universals and... lots of tears:( ) and the downpipe flange all at the same time or it won't fit. It is precisely made with no forgiving room. Even Andreas Miko told me he has drilled out the DP Flange bolt holes much bigger to make it easier. Not me I went the hard way.

It makes it harder when:
1. You don't have a lift and are working in the yard on the grass.
2. All the intake pipes are installed from compressor to intercooler.
3. The oil drain hose is installed.
4. The fact that only one person can get under there and do it.

The DP bolts are not even worth mentioning Frank so long as you have some Gearwrenchs like I have. Found at Sears:

http://www.webbikeworld.com/Reviewed-motorcycle-products/gearwrench/wrench.jpg

Read all about them here:http://www.webbikeworld.com/Reviewed-motorcycle-products/gearwrench/

If anyone has any specialty tools or tricks, tips for the rest of it please advise...

Yeah drill out the downpipe bolt holes. I drilled out the bottom one it makes it so much easier.

Originally posted by Thomas Reynolds

The DP bolts are not even worth mentioning Frank so long as you have some Gearwrenchs like I have. Found at Sears:
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If anyone has any specialty tools or tricks, tips for the rest of it please advise...

I don't have any ratcheting wrench, i just use a normal wrench, not that bad, maybe 5 minutes to get that one bolt tight. No specialty tools used, just a regular ratchet set and normal wrenches on the floor of my garage :) Just take your time, and go through it methodically, i know mager and i have r&r'd this stuff a few times, and there is nothing difficult about it besides that one little bastard bolt.

Originally posted by ShawnSE-R
Try putting a turbo kit on a 93 mustang. It took me an hour just to put the spark plugs in. We wont even talk about the manifolds.

hell yeah, you WILL quit whining when you've done a 5.0 spark plug install. especially the 2 closest to the firewall! i have memorized the process for fishing dropped sparkplugs out of BBK headers! plus, snaking your arm down there (even for guys with skinny arms like shawn and i) to reach the rear 2 requires more joints than i currently posess. now i know why it costs like $50-100 for a tune up!

Originally posted by HotshtSR20


hell yeah, you WILL quit whining when you've done a 5.0 spark plug install. especially the 2 closest to the firewall! i have memorized the process for fishing dropped sparkplugs out of BBK headers! plus, snaking your arm down there (even for guys with skinny arms like shawn and i) to reach the rear 2 requires more joints than i currently posess. now i know why it costs like $50-100 for a tune up!
I got your back on that one...lol.. mustangs are a bitch to work on! Try installing some shorties..lol
Travis