I drive a 00 Civic LX 4D 5Sp, its got close to 174K miles, it burns about a quart every oil change (3000 miles) and besides that, the engine runs great. I wanted to swap to a B18B, but if I could work with what I have, I prefer the latter. I wanted to run a stock engine w/ a turbo setup and Y8 intake manifold. I work at Acura and the techs say the engine is very reliable and should be able to run for many miles. So now I'm coming to the board to see what you guys think.

Jason

 

I turbo'd my car with a garrett t3/t4 .57 trim for over 2 years no problems on 10psi, daily driver. put over 24,000 miles since being turbo'd on my civic, now has 190k

 

i have a d16z6 turbod for the past 4years rolling over on 300k miles now...... but i built the block, stock head stock tranny, 10psi runs great daily driver

 

Do a compression and leakdown test. As long as the engine is healthy, it doesn't matter if it has 30,000 or 3,000,000 miles.

 

Exactly. This is all you need to do to tell if the motor is healthy

 

Thanks for the info guys. I'm going to get the compression checked at work, and then I'll make my decision.

 

i just turboed my car i got a 94 ex 210,000 miles stock internals. runs fine. obviously smokes a lil when u get on it and im runing 8psi. u should be good depends how much boost. and how hard ur gonna run it. so far i got 1000miles on car and still runs fine. and i run the **** out of my car lol

 

I'm thinking about running a TD05-14B from a DSM @ 8psi. Hopefully its not too much for the stock internals.

 

Thats how I started with a 14b turbo running pretty much everything of a DSM. Well I got addicted and I have a feeling it might happen to you. Before you know it you will be pulling out the motor getting ready for a rebuild and bigger turbo.