My Daily Driver Turbo Build, NEW PICS OF BUILD/INSTALL POSTED! Options

[boosted185]

First things First. This is about a Honda Civic....Don't hate...yet!

Haha, alright guys, SOME of you already know about this, most of you don't. I figured I might as well post a thread about my Civic Turbo build. Now I know most of you will stop reading at this point. Please don't be that close-minded. A Turbo build is a Turbo build, reguardless of make. As of right now my engine is done at the machine shop (got the call this morning) and is ready to be picked up, as soon as I sell one of my testicles I will pay for it and get my motor back! The block consists of YCP .020" over pistons with Forged I-beam rods. ACL Race bearings, APR head studs, and perfect circle rings. The block was bored, honed, line honed, and decked to accomodate the new guts. I have the oh-so-common eBay t3/T04E 57 trim with a 63 A/R. 3" downpipe mated to a stock cat, then 3" catback from there. Factory head for right now. I did order a custom thickness head gasket from commetic that too them 4 week to make...quite irritating if you ask me. Precision 550cc LI injectors with a 93 Accord resistor box. I am running Water/Meth injection (Devils Own)...Most of the Honda community doesnt really run the water/meth so I'm going to see what I can do to make my build better! ACT Stage III copper ceramic 6 puck with a Fidanza 7.5lb flywheel. Um...I'm sure I'm forgetting some tid-bits of information, but those of you who have done turbo setups before, please feel free to ask questions. I have been working on cars for the past 13 years and this is not my frist Rodeo....QUESTIONS and COMMENTS are greatly appreciated! Those of you who have NOT done turbo setups and whatnot on N/A engines, just sit back and enjoy the ride, and HOPEFULLY someone will say something that you can take and apply to your own car!

I will have some pics as soon as my engine gets home from the machine shop!

This post has been edited by boosted185: Sep 2, 2009 - 3:14 PM

[garin]

good luck with it. is brent helping you?

[boosted185]

good luck with it. is brent helping you?

Thanks. Brent will most likely be lending a hand where he can. What better way for him to learn then to get down and dirty and turn some wrenches!

[Axel04]

There's nothing wrong with Honda's I have a 94 civic dx as my dd and an 01 Acura Integra GSR as my wife's dd. What year is the Civic and is it a coupe or hatch, and what motor are you using, B16 B18 LS OR GSR OR TYPE R. We need to know these things lol..

[presure2]

OMG cam, you are SOOO banned.


























lol j/k.
i had a 93 hatch for awhile as a daily..fun little cars.
keep us updated on the progress!

[boosted185]

There's nothing wrong with Honda's I have a 94 civic dx as my dd and an 01 Acura Integra GSR as my wife's dd. What year is the Civic and is it a coupe or hatch, and what motor are you using, B16 B18 LS OR GSR OR TYPE R. We need to know these things lol..

Its a 1994 Ex Coupe. As for the engine its the mighty D16Z6 I wasnt going to bother with a B-series swap due to the cost of the engine, then properly building it to handle the amount of boost I wanna throw at her. I will safely be able to run 20+psi with the pistons and rods that I have in the block. These engines with the same setup as mine have been known to put down 400+whp numbers! Soooo I'm going to be realistic and set a goal for 380ish whp for mine. If I can attain that I will be thrilled.

OMG cam, you are SOOO banned.

Glad you have a sense of humor Manny! Haha, I will be sure to keep this updated. I'm on here enough keeping Brent's thread updated anyway HAHAHA!

This post has been edited by boosted185: Jul 30, 2009 - 2:05 PM

[Jared95]

honda daily FTW way cheaper to build way easier to get bigger numbers...it is sad, but true.

[DEATH]

Awesome Cam - I'm surprised to be the first to say this - but this thread is [nearly] worthless without pics
seriously tho - wanna see the car and the machine work when you get the chance.
this'll be fun to follow a build that isn't a 3S/5S/7A/4A build. Cool

[Axel04]

I hear ya man it's becoming a more popular build now. Did you know that there even building dog box trany's for them now, and there's a single cam in the 9's right now..

[boosted185]

honda daily FTW way cheaper to build way easier to get bigger numbers...it is sad, but true.

Yes, it is sad, but very true. The heads on Hondas are some of the best flowing OE heads, this could be part of the equation!

Awesome Cam - I'm surprised to be the first to say this - but this thread is [nearly] worthless without pics
seriously tho - wanna see the car and the machine work when you get the chance.
this'll be fun to follow a build that isn't a 3S/5S/7A/4A build. Cool

Matt, I'll post a few pics of the car as is right now, then Monday when I get the engine back from the machine shop I'll have pics of that.

I hear ya man it's becoming a more popular build now. Did you know that there even building dog box trany's for them now, and there's a single cam in the 9's right now..

Yeah, I'm on turbod16.com and those guys are putting down obnoxious numbers with their SOHCs!

[boosted185]

These are just a few quick pics of the car as is right now.

[supershannon77]

didnt fix the door yet?

[Defgeph]

Nice, I love Civics.

[SwissFerdi]

LOL @ no fat chicks. Good luck with the build.

[Nartanian]

How much power to wheel you trying to make?

This post has been edited by Nartanian: Jul 30, 2009 - 9:34 PM

[boosted185]

didnt fix the door yet?

Huh? what about the door? It's open in the one pic because I forgot to close it lol.

How much power to wheel you trying to make?

I mentioned a few posts up that 380 whp is my goal, if I make within 10 of it I'll be satisfied.

[Nartanian]

Would that be on pump gas? I think you can make a bit more than 380 with that set-up

[tonytutino]

i find the 'car will scrape' portion of that statement to be humorous at best, but redundant...

no fat chicks.


lol good luck on the build man, i'll be stoked to see some numbers/ pics as well.

[supershannon77]

worst part is the car scraped when he gave me a ride

[DEATH]

Nice Cam - I dig it
I'll be subscribing to this build thread

[jimmykay]

Good luck with the build. reading this reminded me of a video i just saw yesterday of little bitty hondas going really fast.

http://mycomputerninja.com/?p=348

oh, and also... This thread is worthless without pics

[boosted185]

Would that be on pump gas? I think you can make a bit more than 380 with that set-up

Yeah, I agree, I think I could make a little more, but we'll see! What she makes, she makes. Its still a daily driver, it will just be a pretty quick daily driver

[richee3]

Nice! One of my buddies has an EG hatch. He swapped a D16B into it. It's pretty quick- eats my GT up. Unfortunately....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSOzTvoXPvs...player_embedded

As long as you don't turn into him, you're fine by me.

( We aren't THAT good of friends...)

[SPID33]

as soon as I sell one of my testicles I will pay for it and get my motor back! and the fat chick thing also very funny

[Bitter]

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch?e=20090507195629314

[boosted185]

GOING TO PICK UP MY MOTOR IN ABOUT 45 MINUTES!!!! Hopefully will have pics posted by the end of the day!!!!!

[boosted185]

alright, so a quick update. As you can see, I didn't get the pics posted like I had hoped. Brent's camera died. My ECU went to columbus today to get chipped and a base tune put on it. We gotta roll Brent's Celica out of the garage, get mine IN the garage and start the heart transplant. Both the Tangerine and my Civic should be done sometime this week...well...they BETTER be done this week, we have a show next weekend to attend! haha. I'll post pics as soon as I can.

[boosted185]

Alright, here are some pics of the build and install. I didnt really take as many as I had hoped, but you'll get the gist!

Old Engine Out.



New Engine.
Devcon in block for a block guard and .020 YCP Pistons

Oil Sandwich adapter with Oil PSI switch

Head on the block with new Honda Oil and Water pumps

Precision 580cc Low Imp. Injectors

Fidanza 7.5 lb Flywheel

ACT Stage III Copper Ceramic 6 Puck

Quick mock-up of Turbo/manifold/wastegate

FMIC setup


Gauges (I need to get a pic of them lit up)


More to come. Once its tune and I can get it out of the garage, I'll get some better pics with the bumper on and everything!

[DEATH]

That engine is clean!
Also that IC piping is very very nicely routed - killer job bro!

[Hanyo]

surprized you kept the sohc in there. why not swap to a B series engine?

[Defgeph]

Thats awesome, good job man.

[SeverX13]

surprized you kept the sohc in there. why not swap to a B series engine?

Less money, same power. <--Cam (boosted185)

This post has been edited by SeverX13: Sep 3, 2009 - 5:47 PM

[boosted185]

surprized you kept the sohc in there. why not swap to a B series engine?

Less money, same power. <--Cam (boosted185)

Sorry, I accidentally posted under Brent's sn. But yeah. It was cheaper for me to just turbo my d-series the right way to run more than 10psi than it would have been to swap in a B-series and then boost that motor. I will be able to run 20+ psi on the setup that I have which is plenty for a street Honda. Not to mention not a lot of people really do turbo D-series any more, well, that is if you ignore the turbod16.com forums

[presure2]

good stuff cam!
wish they made a manifold like that for the 5s crowd!

[Stambo]

Nice set up!

[boosted185]

good stuff cam!
wish they made a manifold like that for the 5s crowd!

Oh, I know Manny. I was pretty pleased with it. The flange that mates to the head is a little thick, but I'm still able to use the factory bolts/nuts.

[boosted185]

I think it's about time to get this thread back up and going! I havent been able to do to much to her, seeing as how I now work at Tweak'd Performance, and Doc has a strict "no honda" policy LOL just kidding, but seriously.