Yeah, so, the blower came in last Thursday and I installed it over the
weekend :). Kenne Bell Blowzilla 2200, Kenne Bell Boost-a-Pump, and a
Diablo Motorsport MAFia all went on.

The installation went fine with no serious hiccups and just a few
moments of drama. The boost bypass vaccuum line was a royal bitch to
get on and there's a nut on the firewall that I had to use an open end
wrench on: turn a tiny bit, flip wrench, turn a tiny bit, flip wrench,
....sheesh :).

Mr. Bell needs to update his instructions. The instruction were clearly
for an earlier version of the blower. Furthermore, just about every
reference for the 8mm bolts were transposed with the references for the
10mm bolts. None of these were big issues, just annoyances.

More annoying, as I cleaned up I found this little bag of bolts labeled
"Intercooler Bolts". I check out the instructions and they clearly say
to use the OEM bolts. What gives? Well, a little research and it turns
out some folks have broken their bolts getting them off the IC, and the
early versions of the KB discharge plate were not drilled deep enough
for the stock bolts. My bolts went in fine and didn't break so I didn't
need them, but it would have been nice to have had this issue called
out.

The last thing that happened was on startup. She fired right up and
made a nice knocking sound. Yep, panic set in. What could I have
dropped in there? So, fire her up again, and listen closely. Not quite
a knock but still loud as heck. I start probing with a "stethoscope"
and it's not coming from the heads, the blower, the lower intake. What
the...? I blip the throttle and I hear the boost bypass close and the
sound vanishes. This was some sort of startup issue that, again, it
sure would have been nice to have been warned about.

But it was worth it :). The thing sounds good and makes boost *fast*.
The car has changed character at all throttle levels and is more much
more responsive. This kinda makes sense since the efficiency
improvement should exist everywhere, even when freewheeling, but I
wouldn't have thought it would be this noticable. And I may be
hypersenstive but I think the car's exhaust is louder now. I dunno.

I haven't got on it yet because I'm running a Predator pulley tune that
was built around the Eaton. It should be close but I'm not going to
risk it until I've seen a dyno run. I did pull some timing and richen
up the mixture, just in case :). I should be hitting the dyno in a day
or two ;).

Dan
2003 Cobra convertible
With some stuff and things