New setup is complete!

Z6, T3, 450cc's, 3B and 15-18psi

I was going to tune last friday but I spent 900 on a mtb bike a few days before (damn impulse purchases) so tuning gets pushed another month.

quote from my girlfriend - "I dont get it! You are making alot of money so why are you always broke?!"

 

what do you mean by good fuel management?

 

LOL, talk to VTC Civic, I think he has a great definition of good fuel management.

What I meant was, forget about what the Greddy or Drag kit provides you with. Whether a 12:1 FMU(Drag) or the Blue Box(Greddy). Get Hondata( or the like) with larger injectors to go alnog with your turbo. I run a 12:1 FMU which makes me run really rich(better safe than sorry) and makes me bog off of almost every launch unless I feather the clutch.

 

i went to the towers about 2 weeks ago too...were u in ur car?? well i have a greddy kit and all i need is in my profile im planning on boosting 6.5-7psi and hitting about 160whp...soo we'll see how that goes..i already havre my fuel pump and turbo timer on order..i just finished my exhuast setup today.. 2 1/2 back (no resonator) to ann apexi dunk...now i need my cat...probably from http://www.testpipe.com theere 35 bucks...oh well hopefully by te end of june or beginning of july...installation and tuning is +/- 500 so i have some $$$ to spend...definately BOOST THE SOHC

 

ya i was there 2 weeks ago also. I was in a FBP ex coupe as well. lowered on hubs. I was there with this chick, chilling with the guy with the yellow accord wagon and waiting on a couple friends. Ya I'm definitely boosting the sohc but i swear i can't begin to star getting money together... every week it's something new. So far all I have is a turbo timer from the first turbo setup I was planning. I was planning to have the car boosted by the middle of June but it seems more like it's gonna be pushed back to end of July/early August. Oh well. Whenever you get the parts together lemme know I wanna see what my car would look/feel like boosted since u do have the same car as me.

 

WOW! I just had the biggest brain storm here at work. I'm realizing how hard it is for me to muster up $1k+ at one time and blow it on a greddy kit. So... I think I'm gonna probably put together a custom setup, most likely based off a 16G or a T3 (what's a good trim & a/r for a d16 civic?). I was doing that earlier this year but I needed some quick cash so I sold the parts I had. If I had kept them I would have been boosting a long time ago. This way I can also skip the basic stuff like the greddy fmu and get all the parts I WANT. Time to go bug Pritos about his setup.

 

I blew a connecting rod, which lead to the huge crack on the block. I must of made to power.

 

I'm boosting also. 96 Civic EX, 128,xxx miles on it. Boosting 10 psi daily. I love my turbo. SOHC VTEC turbos rule!

 

Yo, I think you PM'd me on this, but just to reiterate, the T3 turbo with a .48 a/r stage 3 turbine and 60 trim .60 a/r is what I use and it works great. It pulls full boost all the way to redline and spools faster than a T4 compressor would allow.

 

i know this is redundant but i'm runnin a boosted sohc with the apexi kit

no one in this damn town has a good dyno for me to tune my car and crap on though....i'm off to tampa to get this one dude..vaportrail or somethin to do it for me.

suposedly he know's honda, lets hope so

 

can you give me more info on where to find this turbo you are describing to me that you use, it sounds better than my TD04H-15G. thanks

 

leadtrum: how do you like the apexi kit? with the intercooler are you running at 5psi or 6psi?

i am looking at both the greddy and apexi kits w/ intercooler and also looking at a possible custom turbo setup.

do you have any other pics of your car besides the ones in your sig?

 

love the apexi kit...honestly its been a great experience with this thing. its only at like 5lbs right now and it never spikes or anything like that so far so its great for only 5. i can't wait to boost it up to 7-8 in a little.

nah i don't have any other cars i drive...i wish i had some beater to play around with but mine is a total daily driver.

 

been boosting 12+ psi on VAFC hack for 6 months now, stock internals....yes stock internals.

 

Been boosting since Dec 2000, 22,000 miles since then. Boosting long and strong! No probs other than the occassional CEL.

 

it's all in my sig. 00 ex with the greddy kit. I have 54000 miles on it and she has given my no trouble pushing 5psi. She's an automatic but will pull hard on modded b series and have no probs with the h22's. The best she's pulled was a 14.93 @91 on stock tires. The greddy kit is honestly alot more than i expected it to be and now the DOHCKLR is out to play.