How is there NOT a step by step video of a Whipple installation on YouTube???

[Btfresse]

Also watch this vid at the 2:00 hr mark for the reservoir and filler neck install/hose routing

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[Oakley]

ROFL

 

[Btfresse]

ROFL

Yea the video is old lol but looks like it still applies. The reservoir in the vid also only has two top ports

 

[HKusp]

Whipple tech support got back to me with the correct routing for the supercharger lid (3 outlet) and HE reservoir (2 nipple) I have, so I should be good there. Had a buddy who owns a shop here local to me stop by this evening and we took the head unit off. We used various drill bits, extractors, and taps to get most of the fragments of the original bolt out and re-tapped the threads. The top threads aren't great but I am going to try and source 4 studs for the corners of the head unit instead of the bolts. That's going to take a few days, at least, to scare up so probably not going to be much progress until that happens. My tuner has a startup tune for me to load onto the car and a configuration for data logging. He wants me to see if it starts, if it does, data log a couple minutes of idle then slow rev up to 4,000rpm with AC off. They converted the tune over from HP Tuners to SCT so we'll see if it works hopefully by next weekend.

 

[HKusp]

Got new hardened (non-Chinese junk) hardware for the 4 corners. Studs in the right length weren't available. Cleaned all 4 corners, chased the threads with a tap on all 4 corners. Cleaned up the wonky hole before and after chasing it with a round brass brush for cleaning guns. Reinstalled the head unit. We put the bolts in, and started the torque sequence and pulled the threads on that hole right out before hitting the first number.

Heli-coil time...

 

[mejohn50]

Got new hardened (non-Chinese junk) hardware for the 4 corners. Studs in the right length weren't available. Cleaned all 4 corners, chased the threads with a tap on all 4 corners. Cleaned up the wonky hole before and after chasing it with a round brass brush for cleaning guns. Reinstalled the head unit. We put the bolts in, and started the torque sequence and pulled the threads on that hole right out before hitting the first number.

Heli-coil time...

Ouch. Hope the heli-coil works.

 

[wazslow]

Got new hardened (non-Chinese junk) hardware for the 4 corners. Studs in the right length weren't available. Cleaned all 4 corners, chased the threads with a tap on all 4 corners. Cleaned up the wonky hole before and after chasing it with a round brass brush for cleaning guns. Reinstalled the head unit. We put the bolts in, and started the torque sequence and pulled the threads on that hole right out before hitting the first number.

Heli-coil time...

You may want to try and use a different torque wrench, maybe the one you are using is not accurate? You're using inch lbs, not ft lbs, correct? I've seen people snap intake manifold bolts before thinking the instructions are referring to ft lbs, but they actually refer to inch lbs.

88 in lbs first pass, 106 in lbs second pass. That's only like 7-8 ft lbs of torque.

 

[HKusp]

You may want to try and use a different torque wrench, maybe the one you are using is not accurate? You're using inch lbs, not ft lbs, correct? I've seen people snap intake manifold bolts before thinking the instructions are referring to ft lbs, but they actually refer to inch lbs.

88 in lbs first pass, 106 in lbs second pass. That's only like 7-8 ft lbs of torque.

I'm aware. It wasn't a torque issue last night, it was a lack of good threads. I appreciate the thought, though.

 

[HKusp]

Heli-coil in. Torqued down to 106 inch/lbs. Yay!!!

 

[HKusp]

Supercharger pulley is on. Supercharger Belt is on and snugged up, although the tension on it, by the directions, makes zero sense. Lid is on and torqued to 90 inch/lbs.

 

[Gnatsum21]

Yay! You are on the last stretch.. I hope and pray!

 

[HKusp]

A little here, a little there. I hope to fire it up by this weekend. There's a lot still to do, and a lot of little odds and ends to button up. It's hard doing this over the weeks like I have. You spend a lot of time looking around trying figure where you left a socket, or a hose clamp, etc. Putting the front of the car, the fender skirts and belly pans back on is going to be a bit of a challenge due to the amount of time it's been since removal. That being said, it's moving along.

 

[HKusp]

Starting to really come together. Plumbing the HE and evap almost all finished. Throttle body on and torqued.

 

[mejohn50]

Won’t be long now and you'll be starting it.

 

[djcodeman]

You will be looking back in a few weeks with pride that you did this yourself.

Keep at it!

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