Man the nightmare continued.. the studs broke.. seems that the threads where beyond stripped.
At one point a bolt shot off the turbo and destroyed the heatshield!

I was out of commission for 4 days.. waiting on stronger studs, the mechanics had to take apart the manifold twice after 2 bolts sheered off. long story short the exhaust manifold from the turbo had to be retapped to 11mm. ( see pics)

The UICP will need to be re-done ( see pics below had to hack up the UICP and it still doesn't fit right) .

I will most likely get a heatshield put in and also put some cam sensor heatshields in as well.

Overall the turbo is working as stated..

I will never be a guinea pig again , I do not suggest this kit if you want a true plug and play solution!.

If you don't mind some fabrication , then go for it!

Some added pictures:

 

Sucks man. Hope things stabilize now

 

Damn, I knew something was really wrong when the oil lines needed fabrication. I didn't realize the true extent of the problem. I wanted to go this route, too.

 

The bolts backing out I think that was probably an install error..
which got exacerbated. ( Thats not the turbo's fault or Kinu)

But there is no excuse on the oil lines and not have an outlet that fit the stock location.

The only thing "Stock" of this turbo is that it fits on the stock manifold.

I am going to enjoy my car for a bit before I put it on a dyno lol

 

When are you going to make the trip up to Orlando?

 

I have a couple of ideas about coupling this thing to the UICP that I will pursue. I have been in contact with Kinugawa about making a possible T3 setup for the X. They need to work out something to make sure that the outlet coupling is no longer an issue. Otherwise, I suspect that this turbo is dead in the water for most people.

 

Kinugawaaaaaaaaa...BYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

sorry i had to.

 

I live in orlando right now, actually moving back to South FL for good on friday.

 

For the j pipe did you use a dsm j pipe and cut the flange off or was it custom?

 

Custom.

I didn't update the thread.. But stupid me did something real bad..
I spun a bearing ( unrelated to the turbo though)
It was called stupidity and downshifting to 2nd from 3rd @ 7500RPM.

 

Man sorry to hear.... all that trouble and now a bad engine on your 2012. I must say I feel for you.

Link us to the build thread when you get her goin again.

 

Anyone know how long these turbos are lasting? Mile wise. I would assume they wouldn't last that long due to quality/price.

 

hmm
there are plenty of guys on the IX running well over 30k miles on these.

should be no different.

 

yeah putting in another stock long block for now.. couldn't justify the downtime.

the good news is that my spare block is good to go , no damage done to the block itself.
So I might slowly build it to support over 1000hp ( I like overbuilt blocks) and eventually in the next year or two drop it back into the car :0

 

Is the turbine the 10.5cm?