Kenne Bell 9# Twin Screw Supercharger - My Installation  

 

 My Supplemental Notes to the KB Installation Instructions

My Work Stall: Osan Air Base Auto Hobby Shop.  Stall fee $1.50/hour (0900-1800), $5.00 overnight, all tools and equipment no charge.  Beats the hell out of someone else installing it.

Windsor Block Intake Clearance: This is where you need to grind one mount back to make room for the new intake. It only affects Windsor blocks though, not the Romeo's.  KB will probably recast the intake to compensate for this in the future.

Initial installation of the Blower and Intake after torquing.  Notice the cast alum valve covers are already installed.  This would be a PITA with the intake on.

Stock 2000 radiator hose is too short.  You need to get a 2001 hose, which is longer and fits right on.

Alternator Clearance: this is where you need to grind down the alternator housing to make clearances for three things on a 2000; 1) flat idler pulley 2) new KB lower mount support 3) valve cover bolt/stud.

Throttle Linkage Clearances: Two places are of concern; 1) heater hose 2) fuel line.  I removed the heater hose from the firewall and cut it back about 1", which pulled it back from the linkage enough.  The fuel line clip needs to be rotated around so the opening is smack dab in the middle of the rotating throttle cable linkage.  My clip was very tight and I doubt it will rotate back around on its own, but I will be checking often for awhile.

The way it was after Day 3.  I was in no hurry to rush thru this install due to having to send the PCM computer back to KB.  They did not have my Catch Code on file, so they needed my PCM to download the code before burning a chip.  Shipping back and forth for this from my Korea location takes at the fastest, 6 days, which it did, so I had time to burn, thus, took my time.

Vacuum Hoses and wires: this shows how I routed/spliced the vacuum hoses, covered hoses and wires with convoluted tubing (blue of course), and a shot of the bypass valve.  The top 3 pic are the way the vacuum tee's should be and are correct.  The bottom four pics show how I did them initially, which was WRONG!

Intercooler and Boost-A-Pump: My pump had to be mounted in this rotational configuration for the hose on the right side (passenger side radiator) to mount properly.  My kits hoses were already clamped with the crush type clamps (as shown here), so there was no way to rotate the hose once it was on the fitting, but the KB instructions show the pump rotated differently and with no hose clamps installed.  Also, I did not like the way you are supposed to screw a self threading screw UP into that wire harness, so I used nuts/bolts instead.  I laid a screw here just so you can see how wrong that is... that IS a wire harness after all.  The nuts/bolts are tons better.  Notice the electronics box mounted/splice in the trunk.  Running the 'two wire' harness up thru the car was the toughest part... and those damn PINK connectors!  I hate them.  You can see them below in the COMPLETE series.

COMPLETE!  Not much to say here.  This is of course the initial completion.
Hopefully between the KB instruction book, the supplemental notes here and these pics and captions anybody following will have zero problems installing this great kit.

13 Oct 2003 Here are some pics taken more recently about 2 months after the completion.  You can see the Parker Air-Oil Separator I installed in the pcv line to help keep oil out of the intake.

Jan 2004 - KB with Big Tube