Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

good except I found out the reason that throttle body was binding up is because the tps broke on the inside. so Im gonna need another damn tps.

welding up my charge pipes today out of mild steel, for some reason I keep getting air bubbles in my welds and when I grind them down they get leaks. Iv tried almost everything, been working on 1 charge pipe for the last 2 hours in 20 degree weather. its so frustrating, once I fix one leak, I find another one. ugh

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

why dont bring it to me i will weld it for you lol i got some tps laying aroud

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

wired up my gm 3 bar map today, if any one has a 92 civic with the map wired thru the cars harness here is the conversion:

abc refers to the picture of gm's 3 bar map on hondata's site

green w blue stripe = A
white = B
yellow w green stripe = c

also found a cool way to have a junk yard style vacuum manifold. they come on older civics like the 84-87 kind. heres a pic, I think it will work pretty well and saves me money on T's and crappy boost signals.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...212092125a.jpg
all tucked away
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...1212092126.jpg

also took the evap purge selenoid off the top of my obd 2 intake mani and jb welded a vac port in it.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...1212092125.jpg

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

bump for a turbo civic

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

thanks man, I worked on my charge pipes tonight, Im some what dissapointed that I can't do them in straight mild steel, but what ever works works, I had a ton of random couplers that I pick up every time I go to the junk yard and see a new turbo volvo or dsm. here are a few pics from tonight.

bumper dump exhaust, still need to make a beauty plate out of aluminum
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...1213092230.jpg

dual rs bov's ebay status
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...1213092143.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...213092230a.jpg

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

That purple valve cover is legit

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

thanks man, I hated it at first but now I totally love it. lol

constructive criticism welcome as well.

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

any out of place vc in a clean engine bay looks nice

btw the rubber pipe to the bov to charge pipes seems to be at an akward angle, need that fixed

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

my b18b1 is going to be built soon also

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

its not at a awkward angle its just a dual bend so it looks weird, like its not just 1 angle.

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

In for the numbers. Keep us posted.

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

cant wait to see this done

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

shoudl have welded a 90 bend lol or cut that one
less piping right

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

wether I welded a 90 or run that coupler there would still be the same number of couplers...


and I would have done alot more welds like I said earlier but I was having some issues with my welder. I dont know if it was because it was 20 degrees out...

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

I <3 LS TURBO !!!!!

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

so how is coming? get it runing yet?

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

gotta go to rrev to get a base map put in, other then that just like 2 little loose ends need to be tied up. I got that IACV for you too and the t.b.

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

Pretty mean looking turbo.

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

lol. hahah. mean lookin ebay turbo. for $160 bucks brand new i love them

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

clean setup

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

Interesting setup.

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

cool let me know how that goes. when you going to bring it by?

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

umm... hopefully when I get a basemap so I dont gotta take the gf's whip

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

tried to start the car up today, it coded 21 lol, thats for vtec spool selenoid valve or something. other then that it fired up first try. had to fix one small oil leak coming from the T from the oil feed line and I need to hook up the boost gauge and fill the tranny back up with oil. hopefully Ill get my base map this week from rrev so I can work out some of the small kinks Ill have. then off to get it tuned :)

Re: my very basic ls turbo build thread.
 

wow thats it i was thinking more shit would f!@k*d up lol jk well go get that baes map