I am thinking of doing this and have herd somethings. I am thinking of leaning the way of of the super cause of the instant power through most of the rev range. Can anyone give there two cents and pro's and con's.

 

There's just too much to talk about between the two. Read....A LOT about each system. Me being biased would go the turbo route.

 

i say turbo but that just my view
why u can stay out of boost if u need to and save mpg and when u need it hit boost and get power [i am not turboed but one of my friends is in a sti]

 

Supercharger has it limits as this is belt driven. You can only get so much boost and you are tapped pretty much. A Turbo system=Sky's the Limit. If you keep it under 6psi you shouldn't even need a tune. But, if you go over you should seek a professional to tune the application for sure. Full Race has customers have over 400hp on the dyno all day long and smoke EVO's and STI's. These cars all have stock motors and one guy I heard just turbo'ed his car for the first time with 70k on the stock motor. Now it has over 140k and still running strong with no issues. Just really impressive what you can do with the stock Civic motor, AWESOME! Tell me what other car you can do that and more then double the horsepower. Slim and few.

 

I had a comptech stage 2 supercharger on my car for 5000 miles. Took it off, sold it and built a turbo kit for it with a TDAutowerks manifold. Been turbo'd for 10,000 miles now and love every minute of it.
Yes, you don't have the instant boost of the supercharger, but you have the huge smile 2 seconds later when you've hit full boost on the turbo and it actually pulls all the way to redline.
9psi on comptech supercharger 265 WHP
10psi on precision 6262 turbo, 384 WHP.
I built my complete kit, exhaust, electronics, injectors, everything for $4000.

 

worst piece of advice ever.

 

Anyone of any thoughts about the Swift Racing technologies or have any other recommendations for turbo kits.

 

anything but Swift. Unless you got like a year to wait to get your parts.

 

I've got the SRT CUT kit... probably the best kit money can buy. It's all inclusive to EVERYTHING you need and supporting mods, including gauges, turbo kit itself, clutch, exhaust, etc.
The wait time isnt too terrible. But you have to understand that the craftsmanship is worth it.

I'm running 440whp on the SRT (Swift racing technologies) kit on a stock motor, and I'm about to build the motor and trans and crank up the boost a bit more in the near future (500+whp club anyone?)

bottom line:
Do your research. Look at hidden costs (such and things not included in other kits that are "optional" on the website, but really arent in a good setup. (wideband, boost gauge, boost controller, flashpro, clutch, exhaust, injectors... etc)

 

Lmao, 5psi and no tune, everyone should do this

 

If you don't mind how much did you shell out. Psi running, actually saw some of there videos and was highly interested in there kit.

 

i got the kit on one of their special sales... it was like $6500 if I remember correctly. only other thing I spent money for was tune since I put the kit on the car myself.

 

Thanks how much psi are you running.

 

Anyone know a good tune shop in the Seattle area that specialize in Honda? I need to find a good one to do the tune when I put that kit on my car.

Also how long did you wait for that SRT CUT kit?
Did you change out your axels after?

 

what would be a good brand for a turbo setup

 

AJP ftw

 

Running 14 psi on old kit... I'm building motor now with new kit (v2 KIT)

a guy ran 460whp @ 12psi on new kit..... and that was on a stock block. I cant wait to see what 10:1 compression, forged internals and built head w/ nasty turbo cams will do.

 

Jotech > SRT v2 > Full-Race.

Turbo > N/A > S/C

 

300hp and 200tq is more then enough for the 8thgen chassis to eat 75% of the cars on the road at any given time.

Ive seen plenty of trannys blown on 8thgcivic with big hp/tq Turbo builds so to me its not worth the headache. You can build a solid Turbo set up with no issues but there is always the temptation to turn the boost up and it could cost you a lot of money in the long run.