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A buddy of mine has a 96 Civic EX and has been thinking about turbo'ing it. Just wondering if the motor will hold decent boost, and how much of it. And will also hold up pretty well as a daily driver.


Thanks in Advanced

oxSLEEPERxo

you got your engine code messed up, the 96 ex is a d16y8. Those motor are good for boost, a lot of sohc is running that or the d16z6 or the d15b. If you do a search, you can find a lot of threads on sohc turbos

mike93eh

a sohc vtec good to turbo? youre kidding right?

please search.

turboda6

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please search.</TD></TR></TABLE>

sohc vtec is great to turbo.. mike is a dumbasss..... bbka runs 12.6 all day with a STOCK SOHC TURBO.. HMT at that. holds great for his dialy at 12psi. holds great on a few of my friends cars at 9psi. u can play it safe and do 8psi daily and im sure you'll be happy. dont listen to mike, he's a dumbass. he need's to research.

mike93eh

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sohc vtec is great to turbo.. mike is a dumbasss..... bbka runs 12.6 all day with a STOCK SOHC TURBO.. HMT at that. holds great for his dialy at 12psi. holds great on a few of my friends cars at 9psi. u can play it safe and do 8psi daily and im sure you'll be happy. dont listen to mike, he's a dumbass. he need's to research.</TD></TR></TABLE>

stfu and how am i dumbass?? i asked him if he was joking because sohc turbos are the **** and everyone knows that.

mike = owns sohc turbo

you = dumbass

norcalcrx

lol bickering like kids in here. Yes the D is a good motor to turbo.

mr_hahn73

Hell yeah!!! Old setup was a stock d16z6 on 12-14 daily and it an fine car converted to obd1 and tuned on uberdata.

Civicman86

Im going to do it

blackeg

its a good motor to boost. i liked mine

dornon13

beerbong's car isnt exactly hmt specialty he is using good quality parts...my turbo y8 is working great D's are awesome

r6samson

I like what I'm reading here. I have the 98 EX (d16y8) and it is soon to be owned by HMT or by whatever owns it, whatever. Anyway, I have to go in steps though. Harness&gt;ECU&gt;Burner&gt;Chipped&gt;Find Pieces&gt;DO IT! Is there a link for a write-up or walk-through on a y8 turbo. HMT is down and it sucks. All this time of school to sit and and so squat.


JP

funvtec

i had a d16y7 boosted for a long time and sometime i would hit 12 psi with bad tuning and it held

and i really beat my cars badly

Tapen00n

the d has been indestructible for me and a bud of mine so far, he crashed and f'ed up his front end, he was mad and just kept his foot on the gas and banged on the rev limi for about 3 mins trying to blow the motor, its still running strong to this day

Tundatoe

^^^ thats is very true, i used to do that but now im going turbo on it because im convinced it wont blow for a long time lol