Supercharging civic

[PopadocD15B4]

from my lack of knowledge of forced induction i have been told that turbocharging a carburettor engine is difficult and wont give good day to day driving for what reason i dont know, so maybe supercharging a
carburettor engine would be better, thus the internals would need to be changed right? as im in perth W.A i was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction for parts like suspension, conrods, pistons, bearings ect as i am planning a buildup of this engine if the verdict is right. thanks pplz any help is appreciated.



Paul

[nugget666]

how much more power are you looking at should be pretty safe using stock internals on 5-8 psi... depending engine condition

[iamhappy46]

which supercharger are you going to use? blow thru setup(supercharge blows into carb) or draw thru setup(supercharger sucks air:fuel mix thru carby and forces into engine)

Either way is not going to be easy.

[PopadocD15B4]

eventually i will rip out the engine and completely rebuild it gett he head bored out and chuck larger pistons in redo the gaskets bearing maybe valve springs and all of that , if i have the engine out ready to rebuild i may aswell chuck some new internals in there but i dont know where to start and what the prices of forged internals will be, as of the supercharger i have yet to make up my mind. any suggestions?

i personally dont know of yet which set up i will use so i am trying to do some research and come up with the best possibility.

thanks.

paul.

[saxman]

forced induction is going to make things difficult enough as is with the carb... a supercharger is only going to make things even harder.


honestly, I'd suggest converting to fi, and going from there

[PopadocD15B4]

your right on the conversion too right and i av contemplated the fact over and over its just i ahve no idea on converting to efi as i have a carburettor'd engine /setup also finding a decent front cut/swap in perth is difficult az.

[saxman]

I think you'll find it'd probably be easier to fabricate an efi set up from scratch(I wouldn't seriously suggest trying to fabricate efi from scratch, just trying to make a point) than to try to build a reliable forced induction carb set up

[iamhappy46]

Find a damaged EG Civic GLi with the D15B7 and build the engine up from there. The B7 motor is a much better design than the B4.

This way, you can rebuild the B7 while driving the B4 into the ground ;)

You should be able to swap the entire wiring harness and EFI fuel system over that way ;)

[IN73GZ]

rip it out and chuck in a b series motor, much better base to start from.

[strafe]

I'd go EFI. Find a half cut and transfer everything accross.