Tomek

I posted this about a month back in the EG forum and felt that I should put it here too to help out some of you guys interested in "homebrew" turbo kits since Ive noticed many people have been asking about these kinds of setups. Plus Im bored and have been waiting on a backordered oil feed for two weeks, thats all i need to for it to run dont mind the dirty car/engine bay, this was done shortly after a snowfall the car is usually much cleaner

tdo5h 14b attatched to the stock dsm o2 housing with a custom manifold that my buddy helped me out with making
(thanks tom ), the welds arent the greatest as you can see but it'll get the job done. Before we welded the exaust flange we must've fitted it ten times before we were sure everything would clear the a/c.


notice how close the dsm o2 housing comes to hitting the a/c compressor, it fit like a glove


o2 housing under the car, dont even have to cut the fan Although we might have to cut the shroud a little when we put the wastegate actuator in


Look how perfectly one of the stock dsm intercooler brackets lines up inside where the intake resonator belongs. I'm going to use that as one of the mounting points, the others will probably be zip ties


pic of one of the intercooler outlets peeking through the hole where the resonator used to sit


Pic of the sidemount zip-tied on, it'll be installed cleaner when its there to stay This intercooler was not modified at all to fit the civic, its funny how well this mitsubishi piece fits.


Pic of a straight bend comming from the compressor outlet to the ic, couldnt fit any better


Here's the bend comming from the 14b compressor outlet, everyone says using a 14b is a bitch because of the outlet since the bend is usually very harsh. I can imagine how hard it woud have been if the compressor housing was on the driver's side like most homemade turbo setups. The compressor housing WAS NOT rotated. All we did was cut the stock dsm flange at the bottom that goes to the compressor outlet, connected radiator hose to it and put a 90° bend of mandrel bent piping on other end of the hose and rotated it to accomodate the rest of my piping.


Somewhat of a final product with the charge pipes(we didnt weld the BOV flange onto the piping yet, we just placed it there for picture purposes) The piping wasnt secured tightly thats why there seems to be that small dip in the upper ic pipe, that'll be gone once everything is fit permanently.




Parts List:

14b off a first gen dsm
1g dsm o2 housing
custom made exaust manifold
Mandrel Bent aluminum 2 1/4" piping from jc whitney(had some leftover, but still didnt make the downpipe)
2 180° bends
2 90° bends
1 45° bend
1g dsm sidemount intercooler
1g dsm blow-off valve
dsm 450cc injectors
crx resistor box
apexi vafc
autometer boost and a/f gauge
hks 60mm egt gauge
nos ss braided fuel lines and aeroquip fittings for oil feed/return




[Modified by AztecEJ, 10:48 PM 3/31/2003]

Charles B.

go sohc!!! you should post a price list

Joseph Davis

Much love for the zip ties.

zeroracerh

yes yes price list!

Tomek

14b off a first gen dsm - $100 with 60k miles
1g dsm o2 housing-free
custom made exaust manifold-free
Mandrel Bent aluminum 2 1/4" piping from jc whitney- 80$
1g dsm sidemount intercooler- free
1g dsm blow-off valve- free
dsm 450cc injectors- free except cleaning
crx resistor box- $15
apexi vafc- $300
autometer boost and a/f gauge - $80
hks 60mm egt gauge- $40
ss oil feed/return + fittings- $100

beating the occasional hybrid- priceless


[Modified by AztecEJ, 8:12 AM 4/1/2003]

1.8Tities

That car looks familiar??

Tomek

you must be mistaken

Ivan

not this hybrid

Suprdave

Not this one either...

Maybe in Orland

Suprdave


[Modified by Suprdave, 5:08 PM 4/1/2003]

Tomek

I did say occasional
....somebody's gotta put the cavaliers and neons back in their place y0

Joseph Davis

It took a turbo to get your car out of the 17's?

.RTErnie

hey! Hey! HEY! lay off the neons.... they run 15's stock...so let them be

UberTeg

We're not talking about the 1/8 mile n00b

GOLDBERG

lucky..my saab turbo + hf manifold didnt fit at all...stupid wastegate

AbaZ

I love it! great work man...

Jeff Frank

.RTErnie

corrected in the next post


[Modified by RTErnie, 7:33 PM 4/2/2003]

.RTErnie

If you dont have something intelligent to say....dont say anything.

kyle h.

woah, someones a little touchy.

UberTeg

I think he ownz a neon Seriouslly tho, some of those neosn are SUPPOSED to run 15.9's stock, but i've never seen em run anything better than 16.6

.RTErnie

dohc 5spd run 15.8's...at least the ones with the 3.94. dohc w/3.55=16.0's, and sohc 3.94 16.2, sohc 3.55 16.4, and sohc atx....18.8

.RTErnie

and bone stock ACR's have hit 15.4's full interior.

PrecisionH23a

My friends neon RT ran a 14.4 at the quarter last fall, i have the video to prove it if you want to see it.[

UberTeg

i know the acr's anmd RT's are pretty quick for what they are, but theres no way the other neons run that quick.. i use to smoke them all in my near stock ls

It doesnt really matter, a neon is a neon, and an integra is an integra.

Tomek

Thanks! your website was a very valuable resource to me along with the responses to the emails I sent you(i dont know if you remember them )

.RTErnie

uber a dohc 5 speed neon will stay right with an ls....hell my sohc 3.94 beat an LS last week with a competant driver