*****____I'm making this an ongoing project journal. Enjoy.____*****

or I don't really care either way.

Yup, being fast comes with a price tag. Turbo blew its oil seals and began to spew oil into my pipes. Turbo basically was dying. So I went ahead and removed turbo and pipes. Since they were off in order to clean out all the oil I decided to paint the pipes a nice shiney black.

Here is a few Before pics and hopefully in the next couple days I'll post more and more After pics. I took WAY more pics than what i'm posting. I would host a whole **** load of pics but with 56k it takes too damn long.

Car before with ugly charge pipes.

Waiting to be put back on.

Took turbo off and began disassembly process.

Look at all them cute lil parts.



Hopefully when its all said and done my lightweight lil CRX will be making near 200 horsepower and a lil less than that in torque. I just need to work out a few tuning bugs and I should be getting into the 13's in the quarter mile. Assuming my clutch can hold and I can get traction.


Modified by CRXDrew at 11:26 PM 2/23/2005


Modified by CRXDrew at 11:27 PM 2/23/2005


Modified by CRXDrew at 8:17 PM 3/27/2005


Modified by CRXDrew at 11:46 PM 4/7/2005

 

Yup... still waiting on rebuild parts for the turbo... pissed because it was 50 degrees out today... woulda been nice driving weather.

mmm... black

front mount intercooler... as seen on the best high horsepower cars.

New filter setup... I was using pantyhose and a mesh screen before. lol.

Homemade Manual Boost Controller... Home Depot- cheap and effective.


wOOt.

 

Thats definetly a DIY setup, I would advise changing the pipes for something better but other then that

 

Oh yea, the crush bends... oh well. They were cheap. I'm not looking to create the fastest dseries on the planet. Just wanted to make it more fun.

 

wish I still had my crx . looks good keep us posted when you get some hp numbers in!

 

Thats the best boost controller I have ever seen

 

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Hehe, saw the **** and wing nut on an ebay controller... hehe... made mine for way less than what they were selling it for

 

jcwhitney.com

they sell mandrel bends costs less than 65 bux to do the whole car

 

hahahahah I love the pantyhose setup On my friends old setup we had a doorag inake. lol...

 

Yea... jcwhitney I know. I'm no noob haha. I know I could have done it for under 100 bucks but instead I chose to go the under 30 route. College freshmen here so I decided money could be spent elsewhere.

Now can we lay off my ghetto pipes

 

great work, i like it.

 

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ha,that was funny.what turbo u runnin?

 

seriously though,who cares if he uses crush bends,i'm sure he is not running more than 12psi

 

i wouldnt worry so much about the crush bends as i would the home depot couplers! i tried one and it popped off constantly.. but a neat looking project youve got there. what kinda engine management are you using?

 

-I'm using a TDO5H 14B. And yea... definitely less than 12 psi.

-Currently I am running a chipped ECU. Many thanks go out to my friend Rory. I don't even know his name on HT. "maximumstrength" maybe? Right now I am running his basemap which is off in a few places. Hopefully by next summer I will have a wideband and then the real fun will begin.

 

how is your oil return?

 

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haha im diggin it too

its a home made setup, its a in my book, looks good man. i like the black and red

so what are you using for manegment, turboedit?

 

My return line was a 3/8 oil safe rubber hose. Now it is a 1/2 inch rubber hose that has a much bigger ID than the previous 3/8 hose. Its the red kind from Napa. Its really tough and hard to kink.

 

Oh yea, and its TurboEdit for management.

 

UPDATE:

My rebuild is complete. It went well, and I no longer burn oil. I also know how to take a turbo apart. Everything looks cool and I'll post up pics when I get back to school.

The next project on the rex: welding up a new dp

In the latest Harbor Freight catalog this particular welder has been marked down even more. It has gone from 200 to 119 to now most recently 79.99.

http://www.harborfreight.com/c...44567

Its just a flux core wire feed welder. Online the price is still 119 but i called an HF store a few minutes away and they said that they would honor the price in my catalog.

I'll pick it up tomorrow and screw around with it. That leaves me just enough time to get a hang of it before I go back to school.... which means I won't do anything productive with it until spring break.

This thing ought to be ok for making 3" dp for my turbo. I'm thinking of making "whitey bends" (some guy coined the term on HMT). Where I can use my chop saw on a bunch of straight pipe and weld it all back together. I can get any angle I want AND practice my welding on something that I really don't care about appearance wise.

 

Well if you can learn to lay a good weld "whitey bends" would be better then crush bent.

 

I never got around to taking more glamour shots... maybe later. I'll take some cool ones when I get back from school.

 

looks good...

 

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very nice, props to you for doing it yourself while going to college

 

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wOOt! University of Illinois Basketball: #1 and undefeated

too bad I can't ******* get tickets