Sorry man, its all good it happened for a reason it will be straightened out here soon even if I have to pay to install.

 

Bummer. I love build threads!

 

Just a little bump in the road, I'm going to keep this thread alive and update progress still!

 

well I know on the GT, I had to remove my AC compressor a few times as well. If its is similar on the V6, you should know that those steel pipes have pleny of give to them, enough that you should be able to have someone hold it out of the way fro a few minutes while you make a hole. I know some of this stuff seems intimidating at times, but if you go to a shop with a failed install, that removes the possability of you installing it yourself and the price of install goes up. Your probably looking at around $1,000 to get it installed. (figure 10 hours of $100/hr for custom labor.)

Just keep this in mind. The shops do not have magic tools, and the person installing it for you, would have just as much experience the first time the shop charged $100 an hour to install.... Granted they have more experienced people on hand to ask for help, but you have us ;-) From my experience I will tell you, it is much more scary standing there looking at it, then it was to actually have it apart. So long as you can follow a manual and label what you remove, it becomes much less scary.

It might take you a while to complete, but some research, and that money invested in tools for yourself instead of labor to a shop, will give you a confindence under the hood, and lasting results that will continue to pay divedends the rest of your life.

 

When we were putting the PCM back in the new location with my KB you had to really push hard on one of the steel AC lines to get it out of the way for the lower connector to pop in. I wasn't real sure about it and to me it seemed like it was a bad idea to be pushing on those things that hard. But in the end, you are supposed to. Sometimes you're gonna have to risk breaking things to make it work. Odds are it will be fine. One of the things I've picked up over the last year is that sometimes you need to just pull, push, or twist the **** out of things on cars if you want to get the job done.

 

That's why I picked the Roush Blower...no pushing, bending...just had to cut the ears on the Alternator. Very clean install and well put together.

 

I understand what you are saying man, I didn't have the proper tools is what it was. I am going to buy a 90* for the end of drill and the rotobroach which I didn't get with the kit since it was used. Its that drill bit made for cutting perfectly circle holes.

I did get a quote for $550 which isn't bad just to drop it off and call it a day, I didn't mess anything up or its not a half install I failed pretty early in the steps it was returned to stock and is functional like stock.

 

The quote that shop gave u is close to what everyone is charging. i just had the saleen installed by brenspeed. I think normally its 650 for install but this month they had a special for 200 dollar installs. S+++ I couldnt pass that up. The one mechanic had it done in about 6 hours. Of course hes done many of these. Brenspeed also warranties there work so there is some relief there. I think there vortech installs are around 550. Anyway good luck with your install. I just wanted to post this so u didnt think u were getting ripped off by that shop.

 

Thanks man, 2 other shops locally quoted me $850 and $950 I thought that was insane.

 

Those insane ones are much closer to what I would pay up here in CT. Labor is no joke, I estimate I have saved $15,000+ in labor alone by doing all this work myself.