Okay, so I got my Protege Garage turbo inlet installed over the weekend, and figured I'd do a little write-up on it.
Tools/Materials Required
1. 10mm rachet (You're working on a Mazda, after all)
2. Needle nose pliers
3. Flathead screwdriver
Everything else is supplied from Protege Garage.
The package comes with the pipe, brass nipple for the boost solenoid, silicone reducer, vaccum hose, and clamps.
Step 1
Remove the battery box.
Take off the battery cover, use your 10mm rachet to remove the battery hold down and the flathead screwdriver to unclip the ECU harness. Remove the positive and negative battery cables, pull the hold down off, and get the battery out of the way.
Use the rachet to remove the battery box bolts and pull the box out.
Step 2
Remove the inlet
The inlet is held on with a mounting bolt up top, near the intake. There is also a line running to the boost solenoid you'll need to remove from down near the turbo. There is a single, 10mm band clamp running around the turbo. After removing all three of those pieces, remove the intake and recirc hose if you have one.
When you pull off the inlet, be sure to pull the sleeve off of the grommet as you'll be reusing it. Give it a good yank and it'll all come out.
Say hello to your turbo.
Step 3
Transfer the hardware
Remove the rubber grommet from the stock inlet, and press it into the Protege Garage inlet. You will also need to remove the line that runs from the inlet to the boost solenoid and replace it with the supplied hose that came included with your kit.
Step 4
Install the new inlet
The easiest way to get the new inlet on is to remove the reducer from the new inlet pipe and put it on the turbo along with the band clamps. Slide the inlet onto the mounting stud (the same place where the stock piece came off), and tighten down the 10mm nut. Then finally meet the inlet pipe up to the turbo. It all kind of natually happens if you do it in that order- if you don't do it in that order... you wind up in a really frustrating situation.
Reconnect your intake and recirc hose, along with affixing the other end of the vaccum hose to the brass nipple. And voila. All done.
Finally installed:
At idle:
The whole thing turned out great. Install took about an hour and a half between the taking pictures, some trial and error things, and playing around with a few other issues I'd been meaning to work out.. but it's all on, the car's running great. You can check out some impressions of it here: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123744439
I want to thank Ken for getting this part to me. It's an absolutely awesome value for the money, and I'm glad to have it on.
Tools/Materials Required
1. 10mm rachet (You're working on a Mazda, after all)
2. Needle nose pliers
3. Flathead screwdriver
Everything else is supplied from Protege Garage.
The package comes with the pipe, brass nipple for the boost solenoid, silicone reducer, vaccum hose, and clamps.
Step 1
Remove the battery box.
Use the rachet to remove the battery box bolts and pull the box out.
Step 2
Remove the inlet
When you pull off the inlet, be sure to pull the sleeve off of the grommet as you'll be reusing it. Give it a good yank and it'll all come out.
Say hello to your turbo.
Step 3
Transfer the hardware
Step 4
Install the new inlet
Reconnect your intake and recirc hose, along with affixing the other end of the vaccum hose to the brass nipple. And voila. All done.
Finally installed:
At idle:
The whole thing turned out great. Install took about an hour and a half between the taking pictures, some trial and error things, and playing around with a few other issues I'd been meaning to work out.. but it's all on, the car's running great. You can check out some impressions of it here: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123744439
I want to thank Ken for getting this part to me. It's an absolutely awesome value for the money, and I'm glad to have it on.
