Not to be a **** about anything but why dont you just do what is recommended and have the turbo kit put on pro? I mean you saved the money to get it why not save more and have it done right? I am buyin a turbo kit for my built motor next month and havin it put on pro so if its screwed then they are responsible

and where is the fun in that?

we are DSMers because we love this motor and love to work on it even more.. if we just paid to have everthing done it would completely defeat the purpose.

I can see the point bigjohnson made of liability, but +1 for DIY

Do it your self FTW.

If you can work a socket wrench you can be a basic mechanic with the right books and resources.

+1

And they probably would more often then they are now be broken more often... go me for sentence and thought processing.

that made zero sense to me.. lol

95% of all general mechanics don't know how to work on turbo Mitsubishi vehicles.

75% of Turbo Mitsubishi owners know more then before mentioned mechanics.

oh got it haha I def had abosutly no idea what you were trying to say before!

Okay first of all johnson. when i bought my car it had been rebuilt by a mechanic. i later found out (the hard way) that he had no clue where the wires were supposed to go when putting it back together. i ended up paying a electical mechanic 500 bucks to find a burnt wire that kept causing my car to die.

i just recently replaced the timing belt and head gasket which requires the top half to be completely torn down. when reinstalling everything i could not figure out how he could mess up where the wires go so badly. all in all i have more experience with every car i have ever owned and dont trust most in doing work on my car. its no better than paying for a used car to me. dont know what youll get.

besides i am doing this for the experience. if i wanted a kit professionally installed i would not pay more than the car is worth. thats just stupid. my car is worth maybe 1500 bucks at most. i have dropped a total of 900 bucks on my turbo kit. if i blow it i dont care cause i will just buy a new car. where as buying a kit and having it installed costs as much as buying a gst and plenty of bolt ons to destroy the 420a with a turbo kit. basically bang for buck i am having fun.

thanks for the input though.

another note these motors are by far the easiest i have ever worked on. i have bored and stroked a 94 mustang 302 to a 347 (high 12's on slicks all motor) and i have done multiple over hauls on a dodge stealth (that was my baby :thumbsup: ). cars to me are all about the knowledge and experience. not how much can i spend and have something done by someone else. but one key is i have a shop where i can work at and most others dont.

ohh and be careful with the warrenty thing. easiest way they screw you is making you buy something from them that costs too much and refusing to warrenty unless you buy it. american transmission wouldnt warrenty my 2000 dollar rebuild on my stealth unless i bought their 500 dollar radiator. WTF i know cause i offed to walk across the street to autozone and buy one for 150. they said no cause it wasnt theirs.

good luck with your turbo bro. we are all DSMer's here :gunsmilie:

The turbo kit will destroy the 420a if you over do it without better rods and pistons. I built my motor but I dont know the first thing about runnin oil lines or settin up the gauges...but I will prob be broke so ill end up doin it myself. A friend of mine bought a turbo kit for his tc and didnt set somethin up right and he bent the valves. It has 300 crank hp now. But I guess a mechanic workin on it does take all the fun out of sayin I built this car! :grin:

420As have been turboed in stock form to be reliable, keep your A/Fs your knock and your EGT's in check and you won't have a problem.

FTW!!! TWICE!

The only hard part about building a 420a is the timing. once you do it the first time though its cake afterwards.

Big J if you're that concerned about screwing something up it might be better to have someone do it. don't just take it to anyone though. find a DSM shop near you and ask them how many 420a cars they work on. sometimes even good DSM shops will screw you up becuase they primarily work on the 4g63. They might be sisters in looks but under the hood they are strangers

BTW are you close to Lancaster, PA?

Yeah I aint sayin you will screw it up! Im just sayin thats what I am going to do is take it and have it done. But yeah I will def check the shop out before puttin my car in there!! Ive learned my lesson with that one

I know man no worries. truthfully these motors are amazing cause i am trying to blow mine up and it just wont die lol. i have 260,000 on my motor which was rebuilt at 200,000. i recently had to replace the head gasket after running three bottles of nitrous though it with an 80 shot. i wanted to see how much it would take. i sprayed oce on a 100 shot but it made a loud pop sound and i had to replace my plugs because 2 were basically disintegrated. i will stress that #1 these motors can handle a lot for how tiny they are. #2 these motors are cheap as hell. if you pop one you can get another for 500 bucks. so who carre lol. have fun with your car. UNLESS ITS YOUR DAILY DRIVER. Then be nice to it so it will be nice to you. :grin: