I'm thinking of the Greddy turbo kit for my 00 Civic Ex. Is this a pretty good kit? What are the pros and cons? Would I have to remove m A/C for it? I've heard alot of good things about Greddy, so that's why I am looking into a turbokit from them. The only bad thing is, it doesn't come with an intercooler, but I can find one.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Cone_420 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'm thinking of the Greddy turbo kit for my 00 Civic Ex. Is this a pretty good kit? What are the pros and cons? Would I have to remove m A/C for it? I've heard alot of good things about Greddy, so that's why I am looking into a turbokit from them. The only bad thing is, it doesn't come with an intercooler, but I can find one.</TD></TR></TABLE>

It will work with A/C. What are your power goals though? Greddy kits are really good (just bolt it up and go) but they dont really make that much power.

 

the greddy kit is a good kit, but is limmited in its power output. meaning you will probably outgrow it. but as far as a bolt up and go, it is a good kit.

 

Well i'm really trying to get a whole lot of power. But if I do would I need to change a lot to make more power?

 

If you are looking for power then i think the GReddy kit isnt for you. You should look more into peicing together something yourself, and if your not into that i think you should look here... http://www.full-race.com/home.php

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EVIL Hx Coupe &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It will work with A/C. What are your power goals though? Greddy kits are really good (just bolt it up and go) but they dont really make that much power.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I thought it was a great starter kit for me since it was my first time going turbo. You may outgrow the turbo but this is why you decide what you want out of your car before you start buying ****. Like when I wentt turbo, I knew 170-200whp would be enough for me, so the turbokit was fine. You can easily get 200whp out of the greddy kit with an intercooler.

 

200 would be enough for me. Eventually I might wanna go up to $225-50. Could I just switch the turbo in the Greddy kit with a bigger one? Or do I need to do more modifications?

 

the 18g comes with the EK kits right? thatll be more than enough for you. ive got the 15g kit on my eg and its awesome. still gathering parts to up the boost. i dont know why everyone says they dont or cant make much power... i spiked to 17psi once because of a melted silicone hose and i **** myself. it literally threw my head hard up against the seat.

 

I currently am running the greddy kit (15g) with greddy FMIC on my 98 ex (d16y8). I went with rc 440 injectors, greddy type s bov, chipped p28 with crome.

I would say to prevent boost spikes/surges go with a tuning program that will cut if it gets boost spike, mine is currently set at 8psi and my MBC is set to 6psi...I rarely get boost spike.

As for the 'kit' emanage is lame compared to a obd1 chipped ecu with a great program (uberdata, hondata, crome, neptune etc etc). I would say get yourself a JRC fmic as the greddy one is expensive, get bigger injectors, convert to obd1 (better tuning options) and boost it!

As for it being a 'easy' and 'bolt on kit'...it is but I spent the past 4 days installing everything for about 4-6 hours at a day. I ran into a couple problems with the return, bumper fitting, and bolting up the exhaust...it went really smooth though.
Only problems I had/have on my setup is the oil return is in a jacked up spot...aside from that, its great. If you want to you can bolt up a 18g and everything should be dandy if you want more power/boost.

 

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What's bad about the emanage? That's one reason why I was looking into the Greddy kit, because it came with emanage. I heard it was pretty good, but I want to know why you think it's lame.

 

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What's bad about the emanage? That's one reason why I was looking into the Greddy kit, because it came with emanage. I heard it was pretty good, but I want to know why you think it's lame. </TD></TR></TABLE>

it isnt bad. it is just safe. by safe it is a little richer than most people like. if you are only going to run 5-7 psi, the greddy kit is a good way to start off. but if you have the time, and want to DIY, look around and build a kit. if tuning isnt in your budget, the greddy kit is the way to go.

 

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What's bad about the emanage? That's one reason why I was looking into the Greddy kit, because it came with emanage. I heard it was pretty good, but I want to know why you think it's lame. </TD></TR></TABLE>

One word, tunability. I have heard of people still using emanage and it not running bad but I opted to convert to obd1 and take advantage of a tuning program since so many are out there and its becoming more affordable.

 

i have a greddy kit(15g) and jrc intercooler on crome as well.183/171 on 7 lbs. im keeping the 15g, but buying new manifold and downpipe this winter. if thats not enough, ill upgrade to the 18g...i want 250whp

 

e-manage is fully tunable. i know alot of people get confused between the blue box and emanage. emanage is just as good as hondata or whatever. i dont care what anyone has to say about that. hondata or whatever may be better because more people know how to use the program. thats when you learn to do it yourself.

now before you go all crazy...im talking about if you get a greddy kit which comes with the emanage. now if you are building a kit or whatever then id use uber or hondata or chrome or whatever. but since it comes with the kit, why waste money on other tuning when it does just as good.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mike93eh &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">e-manage is fully tunable. i know alot of people get confused between the blue box and emanage. </TD></TR></TABLE>

*raises hand*

I always saw/read emanage and blue box was the same thing...obviously that was incorrect.

 

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I thought it was a great starter kit for me since it was my first time going turbo. You may outgrow the turbo but this is why you decide what you want out of your car before you start buying ****. Like when I wentt turbo, I knew 170-200whp would be enough for me, so the turbokit was fine. You can easily get 200whp out of the greddy kit with an intercooler.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I also wanted to be in the 200-220whp range, that is why I bought the greddy kit. Your best place to start is to ask yourself how much power you want? It's true that with the Greddy kit you wont see the same numbers from a peak boost or full race kit is capable of. However, I've seen dyno sheets showing 300+whp from greddy powered honda's (B-series that is, I haven't seen too much D series) Unless your building a race car, then the Greddy kit is more then capable of providing you enough power for daily driving.

 

I had the greddy kit on my d16y8 for about a year liked it alot for around town and stuff, but compared to the rev hard kit and stuff it get left in the dust.

 

Keep in mind that the Greddy kit was developed with a couple things in mind; first it's easily going to give you atleast a 50% increase in power; secondly RELIABILITY!!! Big companies like GReddy focus on power without building a race engine and that's why its a limited power output kit... Think about how many guys would complain to GReddy if they bought this kit and were throwing rods outa their motors within the first two weeks...

 

good kit....but watch out for the wastegate actuator...it will probably take a **** on you

 

I just bought the 15G kit for my '94 Sol Si. You say the WG actuator will go bad?
How would I go about preventing this, or fixing it once it happens? Just get a new one?

And I don't mean to thread-jack, but...
I plan on getting a BOV for some safety from compressor surge...
But only running the stock 5.5 lbs of boost, what spring should I run in which BOV?
Sorry for the n00b questions...
Thanks

 

I have the 18g kit and the actuator went bad, greddy makes replacements however for about $130. I'm not saying it is going to go bad for sure, but alot of guys that have this kit have had that problem so don't panick if it does go out. You will know when cuz you will spiking higher than you want to and possibly have vacuum issues (my personal experience). Over all its a good turbo to make some decent power. Good luck with it.

Just get the greddy type-s bov...it comes standard with most mid-power greddy kits