I have a B18c1 in my 96 hatch and am planning on going turbo. I have heard a lot of good stuff from both revhard and FMAX. What's your opinion?

 

DRAG

 

Fmax killed Drag on the dyno charts. Fmax not only had a higher peak hp but had a lot more hp trought the power band

 

Jackson Racing

 

I think you answered your own question. In my opinion, do a custom turbo kit.

 

FMAX kits can blow me, drag or rev-hard

 

drag can blow me....rev hard

 

revhard and fmax can blow me... DRAG3 babY!

 

hey, dan... how come you have 101% and i only have 98%! i should advertise Jackson Racing alot more! hahaha

 

so are you gettin this info from those funky charts from the fmax site? Fawk fmax and get a drag or custom.

 

wanna bet ?

 

You have been wrongly informed..

art

 

go rodrigo.....GO

 

All are very nice kits, with the exception of fmax's mf2 or whatever they call it. It sucks major *****! I think your best bet is to do a custom kit. Get all the parts you want or familiar with. It may cost more but in the end you will be happy. Just ask around for the individual parts from peeps and they will tell you what they think is good. And also find a good shop to make you some nice mandrel bend piping. Here is list of stuff I think are very good.

Turbo- t3/t4oe from either innovative turbo, turbonetics or any others.

Wastegate- Tial (35mm will be good enough), HKS (make sure you get a real one, there have been fake HKS wastegates flooting around).

Intercooler - spearco, Apexi, XS Engenering.

BOV- Tial, or greddy. Basically all do the same thing and most will be good, it wil all depend on what kind of sound you like.

Manifold - This all depends on you. Do you want a better flowing, equal length manifold, but tends to crack, OR a cast iron manifold (log type) wont crack as easy (but tends to flow poorly or not as efficent). Equal lenth, tublar manifold tends to cost more then the cast iron counterparts. I would go with a tubular, equal length such as kooks, kiwi, bellaray.

FPR- Paxton, Aeromotive. Forget FMU's, don't like them!

Fuel Pump- Holly intank 255 lph or Bosch.

Did I forget anything?

HTH and GL with your project.

 

Not to call any of you liars but can you show any numbers where drag or revhard beat out Fmax? If you can please show so I decide.

 

Stock kit to stock kit, the fmax doesn't have the necessary hardware to be able to produce more hp than a drag kit.

fmax uses a straw-sized dp and retains the stock cat. drag uses a 2.5" dp and lets you decide if you wanna use a cat or not.

there is a reason that most of us in here are drag ******, its cause we've used the system, it makes great power, and is reliable.

Tom

 

if you line me up with any integ with the same mods and a revhard or/and a fmax kit... i can show you what a DRAG can do. even puttin me up against a built turbocharged hybrid would do fine... i just have to turn up the boost.

 

This was my very first dyno, nasty IMO, without any tunning. I just slapped on a rev-hard turbo kit on a stock 98 GSR. I show you this, now you find me a fmax dyno that has more than this. BTW, yes it is in STD and not corrected but it was 104 deg when I dynoed so corrected would have netted me higher whp, but not much.


art

 

i agree, fmax dp sucks. too small and wg dumped right after the turbo. the mf2 hasnt given me any probs tho.

i met a guy w/ a revhard on his b18b and he said he dynoed 175 whp and 165 ft/lb @ 7 psi i think. i was kinda disappointed to hear that but i didnt ask him if it was tuned or not, and i think he had an e housing (looked a lil bigger than my b housing) so maybe the later boost and early redline hurt him too.

 

fmax, drag, revhard can all blow me! custom turbo kits 0wn j00

 

Im going to have to say custom.

-ryan

 

Thanx for the info on the revhard. which stage do you have?

 

F-Max's downpipe is like 2 inch diameter or something. I saw it on a friends friends car and it was tiny!

 

Yep yep! A nicely chosen custom setup with standalone fuel management (i.e. Hondata, AEM, Haltech) will ownz joe mommaz azz!!!

 

of course custom is better...