who self installed their trilogy?

[Black_Noise]

Im interested in time it will take one person to do. I have gotten an estimate from someone that it might be like 15 hrs.

I have 2-3 days to do, so I should be fine, but im curious what it actually took some of you to do.

[LANDY]

With the right tools if you know what your doing I say 8 hours

[MOTOWN]

Im going to do mines over the weekend once i get everything in my hands. after looking over the manual looks pretty straight forward

[ImpalaSlayer]

trilogy should be a piece of cake, hardest part would be the fuel pump but even that isnt hard, just kinda awkward and annoying part. im with Landy, shouldn't take more then a Saturday.

[SamF]

One person...10-15 hrs is probably best case. There are a few items you do can before you "start" like blower/intercooler assembly, the coolant pump install, the boost a pump install and some of the other components to speed up the process once you go full on. Installing the blower in place really needs two sets of hands...

[Black_Noise]

I turn a wrench by day, so that should be of some help and I will using my tools and hoist at work so that should help too.

Im hoping it not a full 15 hrs, but I guess I have that much time and more available.

[Spectragod]

I spent a weekend doing mine, I didn't completely stick with the manual on the electrical work, I prefer solder to T taps, butt connectors and the like.

[Juice]

It took me about 24 hours to do it, including making runs to buy necessary tools as well as get parts that were missing from the kit. I have very little experience working on cars, so there was a lot of learning involved.

[justbob]

Easy peasy, four short nights after work, plenty of breaks.

[RacerX]

You can pre-install a lot of the kit before you even have to put the blower on. Don't for get to gap the plugs when you're done too. Spark blow-out sucks! ;)

[Bradley G]

Just doing the parts inventory was a couple hours:P

[Siege]

Installing the blower in place really needs two sets of hands...

So who has set the blower in place without an extra set of hands? :D

[justbob]

So who has set the blower in place without an extra set of hands? :D

Me. Little ackward, but doable.

[SamF]

So who has set the blower in place without an extra set of hands? :D

I did it but it was a pain...much easier the first time when I had help.

[Siege]

Great! I know it's recommended to have two people but I don't want to get held up if no one is around when I reach that step.

[O's Fan Rich]

Took me about a weekend Started Friday night, done on Sunday afternoon.

Oh, and I did put the blower on myself. Piece of cake.

[Black_Noise]

well I got 8-5 thrus and friday of next week, and probably sat, 8-3 if need be.

[justbob]

There is plenty of stuff you could do pre install like heat exchanger, pump, tank, and hoses. You could mount the BAP and run the wires where needed. Get the boost gauge installed and run the nylon tube out to the engine.

Just a few examples, but timely ones.

[guspech750]

So who has set the blower in place without an extra set of hands? :DMy Fked up squashed disk & spinal stenosis infected worthless back and I bought and installed a much newer Eaton this past October.


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[sweetair]

Mine was a 23 hour install over a weekend with 2 people. One is a Ford Shop Foreman. We weren't treating it like a race. The part that took the most time was finding nut A, and washer B and torquing it to ?in/lbs using a thin bead of sealer, etc. There might have been a beer or two towards the end as well.
Good luck.