Hi, I'm having a on my car club site a discussion about turbocharging. www.londonautoclub.org

This is what my friend wrote on our forum:

"hey bart it doesnt matter how many kms on your engine. i now ppl who have over 200,000kms on there b18b and they runnin like 10psi and it pulls fine. ppl get always think kms make the diffence not true. u can have a car that has over 200,000km and then have the same car with 133,000kms thats worse conditions. dont judge by kms how good your engine is in. "

and this is what I wrote to reply to that post.

"guy, think about it, if somebody turbocharged YOUR acura or my ex-integra at 400,00+km's, what do you think would last??? it does matter how old the engine is because the older the condition, the more used up. Let's base this on Martin's civic. If he turbo charges his car at 200,000+km's, your saying he just needs to have to turbo charger put on and he can run 8-10 PSI??? You need work on your engine depending on how old it is. "

What would you guys do since most of you know your stuff about turbocharging cars. I'm looking for some views on who's leaning towards the correct way of doing it.

Would you guys rather just bolt on a turbo on a car with 200,000km's+ and do NO engine work,

or


would you guys do some engine work, such as forged pistons, rods, crank, crank bearings, etc...

thanks
bartek

 

It all depends on how the motor was cared for...

8psi would probly last on the car. There are many people on this site that didn't turbo there car til it was over the 100,000mi mark and there cars are running fine...

 

180,000...never touched the internals and still running fine...compression is the same as before :knock on wood: