How well will this go?

[hondavti25]

if ur going to go turbo and all. Y not just spend the money on getting better brakes first, won't make it go faster but surely its something that needs to be done later

mm yeah aggreed even now the ej8 brakes arent to strong i find in certain conditions although ive driven in worse but when you say new brakes ... meaning? new pads calibars what? convertion from drum to disk at the rear?

[simonnowis]

if the exhaust piping sizing is too large you will def loose torque however you will gain abit of topend speed. is really depends on what you like. but getting a reasonable size exhaust is recommended, not too large.
hey u said u have no cat? isnt it illegal to not have a cat installed?
u can get better front brakes, for the conversion rear disc brakes its not goner be so easy.
good luck on ur car though, i love a modded civic coupe.

[hondavti25]

sorry i have the stock cat installed atm but i havnt got an after market one as yet looking at an xforce one maybe

[simonnowis]

get magnaflow, i heard they are pretty good. pricey though. i saw on ebay someone selling 2 new magnaflow cats for 150. i was goner purchase one, but decided to sell my car so pointless. try to get one for cheap if you can, aftermarket will always be better then stock in exhaust flow. since your goner get turbo you might need bigger piping so ull be wasting money. only spend on stuff u would keep after going turbo. maybe cosmetic like recaro bucket seats or sumthing. lol

[hondavti25]

for the price of some of those seats i can get half a turbo set up :P and in that kinda thing i am got skunk2 shortshifter maybe some new apexi lcd guauges or something ...

[040501912]

better of saving ur money up, get a decent turbo kit and built ur engine.

dont bother getting any thing yet, if you going to turbo it next year. Save ur money first. then blow it when the plan began .

when you are getting ur item now, the chance of it getting removed and sold again is big. it happen to me LOL !!!... I changed my Exhaust system like 3 times =.= a nice 1000 bucks gone to nothing Tuned VAFC gone to the drain too damn .. i lose like $2000 worth of part and labours coz im upgrading to TURBO.

Well my point is, keep ur car engine bay as is. dont bother getting any thing yet. you might want to upgrade ur brakes and rims, or some light interior, ie. bucket seats LOL

*hope it helps*

[simonnowis]

haha yeh, i dont know why the hell i spent 1100 on exhaust and alarm on my car a month ago when im selling the car now.. making a loss from the mods plus loss from sale. lol

[040501912]

Big boys toy is expensive huh? LOL .. that is car, once you got the common type of sickness "MODIFYING SYNDROME" nothing cant stop it LOL !!

well.. insted of having a Throttle body, get ur self a Good Boost controller LOL!! or a nice ECU to hold the turbo instead of VAFC

[eKKy]

EJ8 brakes aren't that bad. Having said that, upgrade at least the rear drums to discs or a get ITR brake upgrade package if you're gonna go turbo.

Also depends what direction you wanna go with your car, the other mods you can perform. eg. handling, ICE etc.

[hondavti25]

yeah well to fill yas in my plan is
2-3 bolt on kit greddy or revhard one of the 2
upgrade cooling
upgrade brakes when i can afford it
lower it and rims
then maybe seats if i feel like i havnt spent enough lol
then latter on internals act to get more power

[simonnowis]

i dont really know much about the bolt on turbo, but you should really think about the brakes. do the ej8 come with rear drums or disc? im thinking drums from what i remember..correct me if im wrong. but anyway you'll need better brakes to compensate the power. wouldnt wanna get into an accident and have your whole project wrecked.