I am beginning to have second thoughts about turbocharging my lude. She(H23) has 105,000 miles on her and i was hoping to use the turbo at low boost with stock internals. Im afraid now that im gonna detonate pistons. Any advice guys.


Also the turbo i am using is the same turbo that came off the old 2.3turbo Thunderbird turbo coupes. Would there be any usable parts from the turbo if i can get my hands on a junked turbo coupe.

 

Did you ever get a compression and leakdown test? How'd that turn out? You may want to consider a rebuild before going through with this.

 

Get it resleeved and put some forged pistons in...you can't go wrong!

 

Nitrous is great. I thought nitrous was great too until you get 40 year old wannabes asking you have NAWWWWS.. *sigh* anyhow, nitrous is a great mod if you're wanting to avoid turbo.

I'm saving/shopping for turbo stuff now.. but I wouldn't get involved in this route unless you have the money to build if need be, and you should plan on building in the future. The f-max kit looks like a good deal as it avoids fuel bandaids onto the stock ECU, at least until such point as you go standalone. There have been a few good stories about the kit here. Get a tial wastegate.

Only thing I can tell you is have it tuned and invest in a wideband O2, EGT and something that will kill the ignition if detonation gets bad or you go lean. If you're not detonating and not running lean, watch your IAT.. 6psi should work for awhile.

We need some good FI prelude stories though.. there's a lot of bad karma going around these days.

But hey, nitrous works great.. but it doesn't go PSSSSH..

 

i have i h23 with 112,000 miles with turbo, blew it up after like 2k and now i have sleeves rod a pistons, now im not worried about blowing her up

 

ya ya.. boost it, blow it, rebuild it, boost it more!!!! is a plan rite there.

 

If you really are considering using that turbo you might need to get a new flange welded onto the exhaust manifold and some custom piping but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. Though if you're considering turboing and worried about blowing it, don't do it. If you really have worries about blowing your motor (no second car you can borrow/rent, cash flow, etc) don't even try doing this especially on a high miledge motor. If you can stand having the car down for about 2-3 weeks if it blows then go ahead with it.

 

hmmm. i do have a jeep i can borrow if god forbid the inevitable happens. but i am short on the fundage if the engine blows. i might be pissed. ill even run it at lower boost untill the money comes for the piston work.The guy i talked to at honda said i should redo some valves before i drop the turbo in. Valvetrain=money. any suggestions.