anyone installed the turbo xs turbo back exhaust or any turbo exhaust for that matter? i'm curious as to the difficulty with this.
can an amatuer do this at home with normal tools or is it best left to pros w/lifts and air tools?

I talked w/ a person who has a Grahm Goode turbo back. He loves it and spool up is much lower.

all of the turbo back systems are really easy to install. personally for the quietest exhaust with nice power is the greddy evo. i had that exhaust with the pde downpipes. its a good combo and only cost about $900 for both.

I believe Angus has a Turbo XS turbo back. I'll PM him and send him this way.

Edit: Or not... he has another brand exaust :rolleyes: sorry.

~v6

turbo xs is a brand i'm considering along w/ a couple others. my main question is how hard/difficult is the install for any turbo back, they can't be that different between brands....or can they?

Originally posted by Dick Fitzwell
turbo xs is a brand i'm considering along w/ a couple others. my main question is how hard/difficult is the install for any turbo back, they can't be that different between brands....or can they?

THe install if fairly easy. Just a bunch of bolts, an O2 sensor and a some hangers. You can do it by yourself, just gets some ramps or jackstands and some leverage. Spray some WD-40 on the hangers to slide them off easily. I did not bother spraying any liquid wrench on the bolts, I just wrenched them off. It took me like 4 hours to do it with the help of my Dad. But I wanted to make sure it was done right. All in all is fairly simple. All the installs are the same, no difference between brands.


hope this helps
-NORSE

yes it does...thx. that's pretty much what i thought. i know i have ability to do this but i spoke w/somebody that had a kit w/turbo back and they said it took a automotive shop(lift/airtools) several hours to do it and that got me thinking maybe it was harder than i thought. anyway thanks for the help guys i will continue on as planned..:)

Originally posted by Dick Fitzwell
it took a automotive shop(lift/airtools) several hours to do it

They always take several houts. :rollseyes: They gotta make money somehow! =)


-NORSE

I installed the TXS turbo back my self, and it was a pain in the arse. If I had to do it again I'll make sure that I have the next day off from work.

It might be fairly easy to some peoples, but defenitely you don't have to spend xx $$ just to install.

Just take your time.

You will need 12mm & 14mm open wrenches and sockets. A quality torque wrench. a 1" & 5" extender. A can of liquid wrench.

I highly recomend a set of ratcheting wrenches. Lowes has a set of metric for $39 bucks...probably the best tool investment other than my Torque wrench that I have made.

This is a straightforward install. It should take no more than 2hours total.

Spray all the nuts and bolts with the liquid wrench 10min before you touch them. Spray the exhaust hangers with the liquid wrench and it will be easy to remove the muffler and rear section.

Take the intercooler off.

The heatshield around the turbo is a pain but just find and turn all the nuts.

One other note...go buy brand new gaskets...after spending $1000 - $1800 on an exhaust what's $30 in gaskets.

Also, when installing, and this is quite important. If the pipes have been laying on the floor, check to see if any mice are in the pipe before installing. Laugh if you want, this happened with my buddy's Dakota R/T when were were hanging a new exhaust. From what we figured happened, a little critter decided to camp out in on of the pipes before we hung it completely (Half the exhaust was on and resting on the ground. Finished exhaust up, cranked it up and just didn't seem right, not bad, just not right. Well, the next day, we took the exhaust back off to see if the cat was bad, well there was a little some sort of 4 legged ex-lifeform almost welded to the honeycomb in the cat. He needed to get a new converter after that. Dumb mouse or whatever it was.

/\rcanum

Don't forget the liquid wrench. Potty mouth. :D. Or should I say you will have a potty mouth if you can't get some bolts loose.

-scu.

the heat shield on the turbo has to come off to access bolts to the downpipe?? does the turbo have to come off? i'm planning on installing the uppipe at the same time anyway. install will be done over a long weekend so time really isn't that much of a factor..
DF

p.s. thanks Cmaj7 for the pic, what gaskets??

Don't be afraid to do it. I did my turbo back (TURBOXS) by myself. No one helped me with any of it. It will take you all day but its not to bad. Just make sure you lubricate all the turbo bolts ahead of time. That will make it easy.
Just take your time and you should be able to do it if 5-7hrs depending on your skill level. My skill level is low and I did it in 1 afternoon in our garage. This was using basic hand tools.

To make the job faster remove the heatshield on the turbo the day before the main job. It take a while to get that heat shield off. That will save you a good hour of more on the day of the job.

The only thing hard about the whole installation is breaking the bolts loose on the turbo. If you soak them in anti lock ahead of time thats no big deal.

Have fun.

Originally posted by SGOSWRX
Don't be afraid to do it. I did my turbo back (TURBOXS) by myself. No one helped me with any of it. It will take you all day but its not to bad. Just make sure you lubricate all the turbo bolts ahead of time. That will make it easy.
Just take your time and you should be able to do it if 5-7hrs depending on your skill level. My skill level is low and I did it in 1 afternoon in our garage. This was using basic hand tools.

To make the job faster remove the heatshield on the turbo the day before the main job. It take a while to get that heat shield off. That will save you a good hour of more on the day of the job.

The only thing hard about the whole installation is breaking the bolts loose on the turbo. If you soak them in anti lock ahead of time thats no big deal.

Have fun.

thanks for the info. did you install a kit or just the exhaust?

My friend and I installed a turbo back in about three hours. The hardest part was the one bolt on the bottom side of the downpipe. On the other hand the uppipe was a little too much for us at the time. We wrestled with it for three hours before giving up for the day. It is now riding around town in the trunk. The heat shroud was making it impossible to get the sensor out, I know there is a way, I just havn't figured it out yet and too lazy to search for the instructions......

yes i have heard the uppipe is definetly a pita, but i figured if i'm tearing the exhaust out, i should do it all. of course looking at it that way, i should swop the turbo when doing the uppipe....wish i had the $$ for all that!