JGAccorn

Anyone ever sat down and thought about it? I was swapping the exhaust on my 96 Accord earlier, got the idea and starting playing around with the factory turbo from my RX7. It'll mount easily and exhaust can be easily routed. Aluminum charge piping will be easy to route and would only follow the exhaust for about 3 feet at the rear, which I could heat sheild. The rest will be about 6" from the exhaust and protected by heat sheilds. Run some AN oil feed and return and a pump. Now before people start bashing the idea... It would be the ultimate sleeper! Yeah, rear mounts spool loud but you don't have the intercooler up front to intimidate people. Keep it 8-10lbs and roll on with some good tuning. It'll be 100% safe. I know you won't be able to push the power and quick response time like a front mount but for a daily driver it'll be perfect! Just an idea.. I'm all about keeping out of the "norm" and having something different.

I have a friend with the twin STS rear mount on a 04' Vette and after doing his car and then having the exhaust out of mine I started brainstorming. His spools INSANELY quick! Very impressive setup!

Anyone have any ideas or feedback? I think i'm going to hit the fab shop and start bending some pipe this week. See what I can come up with... It'll be a fun learning experience at the least! No, I won't run the RX7 turbo of course but i'll so some mapping and see what would work best.

Let me know if you have any tech/info I could use...

361 accord

you ought to make a seperate oil system just for the turbo


that is if you are saying you'll need an extra pump, might as well have an extra supply

i mean it beats routing 20-30 feet worth of expensive lines and still needing an oil pump, AND having to drill/weld **** to the valve cover


the resivour can mount tucked real tight up where the left muffler would go---out of sight

along with a motorcycle oil cooler, maybe a filter too, then you just have 2 lines going accross to the snail

another great benefit is you can use a different oil just for the turbo, and change it at different times
its just an idea

JGAccorn

Very true... I was considering the pump and AN lines due to the fact that STS runs that setup and it is very reliable. I could do a radiator style oil cooler/tank from a motorcycle, inline remote style screw on filter adapter and the pump in the rear. It could even mount on the left side of the spare tire well away from the turbo. Or run a resivoir in the trunk, radiator type transmission cooler underneath with a filter and pump. Either way you have to run a pump.. Wonder what the oil temp would be with the turbo mounted so far downstream? ECT is only a few hundred degrees vs. thousands at the manifold!

May check with some of my chopper buddies for oil tank ideas. They're always coming up with some insane oil tanks for their bikes!

I'll see what I can come up with..

MAD_MIKE

I really see no advantage to this on any '90-'97 Accord. I was just under the '95 and I wonder where you are going to place all the tubing. I see the advantage to the remote mount turbos, in certain applications, but on the Accord, meh. Maybe a V6 variant that has no room underhood sure. But an F/H/G/K powered Accord, I think you are just over complicating a turbo install.

361 accord

over-complicate a turbo install you say? I CAN DO THAT!!!

modify a left side oem muffler to be the oil tank




since its a huge *** oval body it would hold a lot of fluid,
just cut a huge rectangular access panel out of the top of the muffler body

cut out most of the innards, weld a patch over the pipe holes, install a drain plug on the bottom towards the front--now it will hold oil

cut a piece of sheet metal about 2" bigger in dimensions than the piece you cut off
to that cut a hole for which to put oil in through a long *** funnel
also the sump/pump could mount to this panel
also the feed/return lines, maybe even the filter and/or cooler


really though probably just find like a nitrous bottle or fire extinguisher that you can cut up and mount stuff inside of



maybe try searching for a compact stand-alone oiling system
any which way you decide to go-its just leading to spending hella money and probably driving too fast and getting a ticket, or dying
if its just to go fast-theres way easier ways

if its to go fast and not look like it-nothing does that better than a 15 year old accord sedan---with a black intercooler...
really youd be better off with a super-expensive a/c compatible turbo manifold and sticking the i/c out of sight with a radiator fan on it with a button on the dash that says power on it-hehe


i like your enthusiasm, i'm the same way
-if you're going to do something different why not go nuts with it

JGAccorn

And this is what drives me! Haha! Yeah it may be over-complicated but who cares. It's different. I have 90% of the parts laying around and the shop to do it in. Even if it is a failure, i'll have the experience and knowledge afterwards. I've had turbo Hondas that were simple manifold snails and i/c installs. Yeah they are easy and readily available. But they're NORMAL. Typical. Expected. Nothing is exciting about seeing one now days. Rear mount is different. Nobody expects it.

Ten years ago everyone thought we were crazy for bodydropping trucks. Now days it's the norm. Every truck I do is laying rockers now. Then came bodydropless chassis. An overcomplicated idea but it was genuis! Now even people who are over 5'8" tall can drive a truck laying rockers! I even built a Tacoma that had a fully integrated unibody frame. You couldn't see a frame anywhere. It was all tube tucked inside the sheetmetal. Overcomplicated but freakin AWESOME!

Same with this... Overcomplicated but there is always more than one way to accomplish the same goal. If you're like me and like to go against the grain, it's brilliant.

motizmo

just curious if u ever finished this?

customy8

http://www.d-series.org/forums/force...soon-come.html

Here ya go, the early stuff kinda sucked, people will talk **** but who cares , I love the way it runs, with the tiny *** turbine and large compressor of the srt4 turbo, lag is almost non existant.