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Originally Posted by Steve986
Mike,
I have no skin in this game (heck, I even agree with you and generally appreciate your posts), but geez, Mike, you sound a little snippy here. If this forum is about anything it's about folks doing their own work... and that includes an IMS job. If this guys has the balls to do this himself let's answer the guy's questions and give him a hand. He appears to understand how difficult it's going to be (if not he'll find out).
I must say, sometimes this forum sounds like a high school clique.
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OK, some perspective here; while I can fully appreciate the OP’s situation on how to get started, I also more than recognize where Mike is coming from. Running a specialty shop, we have seen more than our share of DIY IMS upgrades that have gone horribly wrong, either because the owner lacked the correct tools, knowledge, or the ability to follow directions.
When you get involved in doing one of these, you a literally holding the heart of a $20K lump in your hands. Use the correct tools, follow the directions, and you will have no problems. Short cut either of those and the probability of either a disaster or a rather large shop bill becomes a very rapidly increasing reality on the horizon.
I would suggest that the OP visits several sites (LN Engineering, FlatSix, RennTech, etc.) and read the DIY postings on the subject, develop a list of what was used for the project . There are many things required to do one of these, some are common shop tools, and others are specific to the job. At the end of the day, he may find that is would cost more to acquire what is needed (The project specific tools are a couple hundred bucks, the general shop tools needed would run several times that) than to farm the project out to someone that already has them. On that basis, he can then make an informed decision on how he wants to proceed.