This is on a 05 Avalanche.Doing it in my home garage. Friggin thing is easy as hell to put on,spent about 3 hr's on it today and it's almost done. Mind you I spent another day messing with the intercooler,meth and gauges.
Here are some progress picks. The kit is very well made and all the parts lined up no problem with plenty of clearance.

 

That's pretty good progress for 3 hours. It's almost like you've turned a wrench or two before

I've always liked how Rick's kits looked. It just looks tight

 

The kit is nice.Tomorrow I'll move everything away from the heat.

It's funny doing this kit in my garage and posting.Do this stuff everyday on customer cars.The last truck Turbo I did was Matts last winter.I swear this Turbo is 1/4 the size of his.

 

Congrats Turbo size (and A/R)?

Bill

 

Looks killer Don. But I do think that my turbo would eat your turbo and **** it out whole

 

Slowhawk, Thanks for the kind words, will except about the size of the turbo LOL
All is looking really nice, 3 hours, I bet a lot of time was used just dropping the stock exhuast from the bottom.
HEAT TIPS:
The heater hose that connects to the same point as your filler tank. That hose will need to be lengthened. You should have plenty from the kit. Anyway, if you rotate that junction forward, you will gain tons of clearance around the turbine housing. And can reuse the hose splitter to hold them together.

AC line grab at the compressor where the hose meets the aluminum tube and pull slightly towards the passenger side. This is needed sometimes and can give that large ac line more room. Then install that heat sleeve heat problem goes away.

keep us posted...... And let me know if we need to add anything else to the kits...

later

Rick

 

 

Thanks Rick. Yes,I already bent the AC line and I was still looking at the water lines for the best route. The kit pretty much fell on,it did take awhile to swazall off the old one(too lazy to undo crossmember)
I just have to take the down pipe off again to weld on a V-clamp at the end to hook up the existing exhaust so it's all quick disconnect.
Should have this running and tuned saturday.Tomorrow I'll finish the minor stuff then weld/make up the intercooler piping.

The Turbo is small and cute.

 

Lookin good. Is that the oil drain in the 4th pic from the right? Have you done them like this before? Looks like the best place to drill when the pan is on the truck.

 

ya don has done that at least once before.