After driving the car for a few days, we had a coolant hose go, unrelated to the turbo kit. We opened the rest of the car up anyways to check on the kit and noticed a few things...
First off we have seen the water hose from the thermostat to the waterpump is rubbing against the filter on the turbo so we will be revising that.
Secondly we are going to add more heat shielding to the coolant and oil lines, just for our own piece of mind. We had some on already of course but we’d like to add more.
Third we have to include a turbo blanket due to proximity of the hotside to the motor mount. The last thing we want is melted motor mounts so just in case, we will be including a turbo blanket.
Lastly we would like to switch to a V Band on the turbo. It’s a little bit more compact and will allow that little bit more clearance to the coolant hose the filter is touching as well as the mount.
This puts release back a touch but I’m not going to release something that isn’t perfect because I don’t expect to feel right collecting people’s money for something that I know could be better. This is what R&D is for and we are going to keep working to make the best product we can. It’s going to look amazing in the end.
These revisions won’t take nearly as long as the development because 95 percent of the kit will remain the same. Just need to get to work on it and order some stuff, then we can continue a bit more R&D and try to get this thing done and get some kits out there in the wild
