I think my choice of a turbocharger was horrific . I chose the SC61 for my B16 and honestley there was a lost of power but the lag was horrific for my taste. Im upgrading to a GT2871R shortly . I also for soem reason forgot to tighten the tbolts on my charge pipe and that sucker blew off so fast .

 

My biggest regret was going with stock injectors and relying on an FMU/uberdata basemap/walbro pump.

The ring lands cracked off in cylinder 2 on my GSR.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by B18C Turbo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My biggest regret was going with stock injectors and relying on an FMU/uberdata basemap/walbro pump.

The ring lands cracked off in cylinder 2 on my GSR.</TD></TR></TABLE>

after how long I drove my car with a very rich basemap for about two weeks. I was not boosting though .

 

&lt;-- building first turbo setup piece by piece.

I'm in for this! It would be cool to see some of those high power setup owners speak up about their first time too.

 

Mine was running a built motor on an SAFC cause I didnt want to wait to buy an ECU, motor made it about 12k and needed to be re-done.

 

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The ring lands cracked off in cylinder 2 on my GSR.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Agreed. Not being tuned right out of the box and not having a second car to drive.

After fixing these two problems I can sleep better at night these days.

 

my regret was not boosting it earlier

 

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Agreed. Not being tuned right out of the box and not having a second car to drive.

After fixing these two problems I can sleep better at night these days.</TD></TR></TABLE> this freaks me out a little bit...... i dont have a choice though. to many things working against me on the whole back up car front. lack of funds, no place to park it being the main ones.

 

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X2..... NA&lt;FI. I spent over $2000 trying to makey car fast NA, then like a dumb *** bought a GReddy kit. I kick myself alot over the decisions i have made.

 

I don't regret a whole lot.....i should have gotten a 3" exhaust and DP, but at the time i couldn't afford it. Now that i have the money, i'm upgrading to a ramhorn, 3" exhaust and eventually i'm going to build the engine....

no regrets....i didn't have the money to do anything different

 

My only regret with my sitaution now, is not building the block and doing everything the "right way" in the first place. Spun a rod bearing and now building the block for more boost. Since I have new hp goals, I've had to change almost everything in my turbo setup, sucks that I didn't even get to drive that much on my projected 300hp setup, maybe 50 miles? Lost so much money on the switch...

Lesson to be learned: although there are too many success stories with stock motors, you could be the 1 in a thousand person to have a motor that couldn't take the added stress. BUILD YOUR BLOCK THEN BOOST THE SHIET OUT OF IT .

 

Not running a good return line and messed up my first turbo I'll never do that again!

 

Did any of you guys regret buying a greddy kit for D or B series?

anybody regret not piece-ing their kit instead of buying a kit?

 

Im regretting buying a 35R, I think i should have gotten a 30R, but whatever, the power potential is way higher but its a street car so lag is an issue.

 

whats the rest of your setup?

which 35r .63or.82?

if you want to sell pm me i may know someone interested

which gt30 would you want to trade for?

 

forgot to sign up

 

I hope I don't go and regret this... lol.

 

I regret not getting started 2 yrs ago when I had almost all my parts. I then lost interest b/c of other personal things going on. I bought a new car that I regretted and sold all my parts. Now I'm in the back of the line when I damn sure should be close to the front.

It seems like I'll never get to build another Honda again.

 

i regret ever buying an ssac manifold.

i also regret going to the darkside(cause nothing else will ever be good enough)....but only until the needle is blurring out of vacuum and diving to the big end of the gauge, all while my speedo needle is moving just as fast as the tach needle

 

I regret buying my drag kit so I am in the process of getting this setup done.Full build and new turbo setup with tuning but minimal headwork.I think the headwork is going to be my mistake on this build.

 

i regret being ghetto about ****

but its the best way to learn from mistakes.

 

oh and also i regret not doing the brakes and suspension of the car BEFORE the turbo! thats a BIG ISSUE!

 

regret buying ssac manifold

 

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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nickromeo &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">oh and also i regret not doing the brakes and suspension of the car BEFORE the turbo! thats a BIG ISSUE!</TD></TR></TABLE>

That's what I'm doing. Suspension and brakes then the motor to match. I'm picking up the first part of my SOHC turbo tomorow. It will probally be another year before I get it on though. Oh well.

Great thread. BTW