RR Racing Supercharger Install
 

This is probably the first garage install. I plan on taking it slowly :) Will be a very slow build.

Rafi has been amazing fielding a million questions before I even started. Thank you.

On Jack stands. Ready to start.

***** Please note that I am not responsible for any damage that you may have as a result of following my to-do. Follow at your own risk ****

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Removed front bumper, headlights and under tray
This link was very helpful. Thanks to cyberscorp:
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...on-how-to.html

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Removed aluminum beam
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Drained coolant:

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Removed lower coolant hose, cut two inches off and reinstalled it. Relocated several ground harness.

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Removed air box and intake.

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Cut the sheet metal to fit the pipes

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Removed all the hard transmission cooler lines and replaced it with high pressure hoses to make space.

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To remove the crank pulley, I had to remove the coolant reservoir as I am doing it on Jack stands. Otherwise you can do it from under the car without removing the reservoir.

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I'm calling it a day. Hopefully crank pulley tomorrow.

Best of wishes!

-Josh

Great thread.:thumbup:

Thataboy :) good luck sir .

Nice work! :thumbup:

I was hoping someone would take the time to document their supercharger install. :cool:

Looking forward to following your progress, and I'm sure this will be a very popular guide for the rest of us when we do our installs. :)

Thanks again for sharing. :thumbup: :cool:

Cheers.


Pete :)

in it for the end results.Good luck with the Install. I'm going to follow this closely. as i will be doing this mod in the spring/summer.

Do you really need to cut the entire piece off or can you just have made a 3" hole to fit the pipe through?

Easier this way and does not affect integrity of structure. I am sure that the pipes need some flex. Also you cannot predict the placement of the pipes so how do you know where to drill the holes?

If you are doing it in your garage on Jack stands, I suggest you take the fan shroud off to have access to your crank pulley as you will be going it from the TOP of the car, not the bottom. It is a 20 min job to take it off.

Stock pulley off.

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New pulley and new belt on

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Makes sense on the Flexing of the pipes. but how about down the line if you decided to revert back to stock. would you be able to place the stock air box back in place considering that the bottom support for it.

Yes. I saved the piece so I can weld it back.

sounds good. looking forward to more pics and info. as i would be tackling this with my mechanics in the summer. Good luck with everything.

Keep the questions coming Raj, happy to help!

As for cutting under the stock airbox... that piece does not have any structural purpose anyway. You can install a stock airbox even without it, just use the one bolt on top. In fact, by removing that piece of metal, you can plumb a ram air duct from the bumper directly to the airbox from below, it would make for a good DIY mod.

Rafi

That's what I was thinking when I saw the cutout.

Subscribed because I'm curious :D

Nice work and documentation with pics.