How did you install it? Remove the entire turbo assembly or was it done from underneath the car? Any tips or special tools you would suggest having to make the job easier? Thanks.

 

Remove the stock exhaust manifold, take off dp, loosen the 2 bracket bolts holding up turbo, remove hotside off the turbo. Take the whole hotside with the o2 housing attached and swap them out. Put hotside back on with new o2 housing, put stock mani back on, and reinstall dp. This was the easies way since when you take the hotside off with the stock o2 housing, its very easy to get to all the bolts and swap out right there. My roomate and i did his o2 housing 2 weeks ago but, we did it without taking the hotside off or the turbo,but it was waaaaaaaaaaaaay much harder to do bc it was almost impossible to get to the bolts and unloosen them. Youre better off taking the hotside off, unless you want to take the radiator out.. Hope that helps

 

Gotcha, thanks.

 

Let me know if you got any more questions!

 

I just did this install and hear a strange sound too, not sure I have ever heard this before. Sounds very odd, not like an exhaust leak... Almost scarry sounding...

 

It sounds like a turbo going bad. It scared the crap out of me, but I am now convinced that it is normal.

 

The sound is normal, when im at wot it sounds like its puishing more air and the turbo spool is definitely more noticeable specially inside the car w/ the windows up

 

Sounds like a sqeeling that gets louder as pressure goes up. Maybe a leak? Sounds like air blowing out a small hose... I can't find it and the sound only comes when under load, I can't rev the engine under the hood and recreate this... Sound familar?

 

The reason is louder is bc your pushing more pressure now, if you notice also, the ebay 02 housing is a lot thinner than the stock one, so its gona be louder due to the thinner material

 

Does that sound I described sound like what I should hear and is normal? Feels good, much smoother and tons more power than I ever suspected... Shocking really, just pulls like crazy...... The noise is freaking me out though as it is fairly loud, almost sounds like when you blow up a ballon and let it go, that squeel... This is normal?

I did the 10.5 and the ebay O2 housing on my 03. I also did T-bolt clamps all around so things should be tight, I will keep checking as this sound is nasty...

 

That sound i dont know about, is it a high pitched sound? Check too see all bolts and gaskets are in place...

 

It varies in pitch as boost rises from a higher piched to slightly lower pitch as boost builds. I must have a boost leak or something. I will sort it out somehow, proving to be a bigger challenge than I expected!!

 

Check all the bolts on manifold, o2 housing and like i mentioned, check to see that gaskets are in place, that sometimes will cause a high pitch sound. Check to see that the hotside is locked in place with the clamp that goes around it

 

Well, I fixed it! It was a boost leak on the driver side of the intecooler. Seems the clamp was at an angle and allowing a small leak even though the t-bolt clamp was tight... Thanks for the help!!!

 

Awesome!! Glad you got it fixed