Hey everyone. I was reading an older issue of Import Tunner and there was a big write up about the Edelbrock SOHC turbo kit and I was wondering if anyone had any real world experience with them yet. The mag said the car tested was making 175.7Hp and 141.5 TQ. So does anyone know where I might find any info on it or where it can be purchased at? I was looking into building a junkyard kit but this looks like a really good deal for all you get.

Cheers,
Dan

 

its a good deal, but import tuner didnt tell u that edlebrock has an engine management problem did they?

with most junkyrad set-up, the price usually comes out to a new kit anyways. its the components that make the diff. get a kit like drag or rev, whos got most of it. only thing u would need to upgrade would be fuel management. one word (HONDATA). with that in mind, my drag kti should be making well over 200whp after i am done.

 

edlebrock is the most complete kit on the market , but in my opinion its overpriced ,and not tuner friendly , so if you want to up the boost and dyno tune , this isnt the kit for you.......junkyard kits are far cheaper and pretty good , but fuel management will be the most important decision . you do NOT want to skimp on fuel management on a junyard kit . for a sohc turbo , go greddy you cant beat it for the money...... its very tunable , and you can add ur own blow off valve and intercooler of ur choice . theres a guy on HT selling the sohc kits for like 1400 shipped to your door . dohc id go revhard or fmax . both good kits ......

 

What kind of engine managment problems are they having? When I was reading the article I was wondering about how tunner friendly this kit would be. I was really drawn to this kit because of it comming with an intake manifold and the ease of instalation. What is the kit going for? The mag said like $3,500 I think but I havent seen a price somewhere is actually selling it for.

Cheers,
Dan

 

Greddy also has an ODB2 SOHC turbo kit, out now too with e-manage and injectors included here:

http://www.groupbuycenter.com/buy.aspx?id=13364

The Rev-Hard kit is not as compete as they claim, my friend installed one on his 1996 GS-R, and the final costs ended up being about $4000, after tuning w/ hack, and exhaust and wastegate mods.

Here is the thread where someone had Edelbrock troubles.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=689002


Modified by mey_xanng at 4:21 AM 12/5/2003

 

"theres a guy on HT selling the sohc kits for like 1400 shipped to your door"

Who is this man?

 

just make or get a good kit. then upgrade fuel management to hondata. hondata will fix almost evrything that occurs with turboing a honda car. but its a lil expensive. BUT u will make madd power. make u **** in ur pants

 

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check the group buys section , and check the classifieds on turbod16.com


and the edlebrock kit is NOT tuner friendly

 

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dood hondata isnt the god of management , if you get greddy it comes with emanage which is just fine......hondata is a piggyback just like emanage is

 

A lot of people bitch about how crapy emanage is too

 

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Dan</TD></TR></TABLE>


The issue was with the piggy back management system. They have cleared it up. And for the people complaining about tuning, you can get the kit without the piggy back management system, allowing you to install your own, and run much more boost. The other great part about the kit is that it comes already with a intake manifold designed to take two sets of injectors. So they you can really efficiently get to extreme power if you were looking to drag a D-series engine. The kit rocks as far as i am concerned, just waiting for the price to stabilize.

 

Since the kit is E.O. legal, you can't ship it with the ability to tune it, otherwise you don't get a CARB E.O. number. You can buy some extra parts (inexpensive) to retune the piggyback, and add a electronic boost solenoid and program a boost map.

The open-track turbo kits will be even cheaper than the CARB legal kits, but come with no fuel manangement. Since when you want to build power, everyone has their own preference to what engine management to use. They aren't selling those kits yet, but said that they would in early '04.

 

quick question. i'm about to get the edelbrock kit, and i currently have a magnaflow 2.25in catback system. i know the small piping will affect spoolup time, but is it going to limit my peak power/boost? if so, by how much? after finally saving enough for a kit, im getting impatient and i wont be able to get a 3in exhaust quite yet. just hoping this will hold up for a month or so.

 

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Hondata isn't God, and it also isn't a piggyback.

 

You don't need 3 inch exhaust, mine is 2.5 inches. I think yours will be fine for the stock boost levels, especially over stock exhaust.

 

at what boost level would i basically NEED to upgrade my exhaust system? I read a post by you, marauder, saying you could run 9psi pretty safely just by turning up the boost with an mbc and making sure your fuel pump is in good working order. could i run 9psi effectively with my 2.25in system? also, what exhaust system did they use when they dynoed to get the advertised 170-176 whp?

 

I would think you wouldn't need to upgrade the exhaust until you get over 10 psi of boost. Below that you might see a slight gain, but not much, especially if you still have a cat.

A few cars ran power numbers for the 170-175 hp. One was my car, that has a 2.5" custom cat-back with a 3" race muffler and still the stock cat. Another car that still has the stock cat used a 2.5" custom cat-back with a standard muffler (forget which one).

As long as its larger than stock, you'll be okay.