About to start my first turbo build... b16a

[lookingforboost]

what a great thread :P this is by far one of the best i have read information wise just caz i can +1 rep for everyone

Limbo is spot on the money and with the 2876R you would be hard pressed to fit that one in the engine bay :P

The GT28RS will be prefect for what you want, and all the effeciency maps are avalible from Garrett as well as the comp maps and hp rating

Luke so pros use the GT30 hey...... i'll remember that :P

[Limbo]

just rem that pros also don't drive their car as a daily driver

[B16]

Thursday's not good form me Brad, sorry, Wed or Fri - I'm at Jambo for the whole weekend.

I know about efficiency maps but didn't really think that a really under under efficient turbo would creat that much excessive heat. There you go, learn something new everyday!

I was also thinking this was a pretty awesome thread, some bloody good info in here.

[FastFwd]

Yeh this has been a great thread...

its rarely you get someone saying "i wanna turbo my honda" and then actually having the money and time to back that claim up. Theres guys on here daily that post things like this but it sounds like you have the money and commitment to go ahead with it and i feel good that our advise will actually make a difference this time and not just go to a dead ended project.

Brad also remember we have only chatted about the power plant side of things. Theres alot to keeping 160kw stuck on the tarmac. Im only running 168kw atm but i have 235's at the front with an MFactory LSD and a Racing Series Exedy clutch and i have no traction at all in first and occasionally second.

What you done to the suspension?

also alot of people talk about brakes, I've only upgraded the fronts to the b16a2 setup in my eg and just some Sports pads and i dont have any problem with stopping. Some people upgrade to massive setups but imo i dont think its necessary well not for my car anyways. I would know if my car felt like the braking wasnt strong enough and if it did then i was upgrade but mine seem fine.

what brake upgrades you got?

also what tyres you running?

[MacDiZZle]

Yeh this has been a great thread...

its rarely you get someone saying "i wanna turbo my honda" and then actually having the money and time to back that claim up. Theres guys on here daily that post things like this but it sounds like you have the money and commitment to go ahead with it and i feel good that our advise will actually make a difference this time and not just go to a dead ended project.

Brad also remember we have only chatted about the power plant side of things. Theres alot to keeping 160kw stuck on the tarmac. Im only running 168kw atm but i have 235's at the front with an MFactory LSD and a Racing Series Exedy clutch and i have no traction at all in first and occasionally second.

What you done to the suspension?

also alot of people talk about brakes, I've only upgraded the fronts to the b16a2 setup in my eg and just some Sports pads and i dont have any problem with stopping. Some people upgrade to massive setups but imo i dont think its necessary well not for my car anyways. I would know if my car felt like the braking wasnt strong enough and if it did then i was upgrade but mine seem fine.

what brake upgrades you got?

also what tyres you running?

Thanks Reece...

Yer i have thought about all that stuff... i have tracked the car for the past 6 months and it currently has coilovers sold for dc2's all round. i dont know the spring rates but they are bloody hard! i hate driving to work everyday in it!

For brakes i have da9 hubs and disks on the front and back as well as da9 master cylinder, booster and prop valve. im going to go 20mm bigger tho up front with accord disks and prelude calipers! it should just squeeze under my 15" wheels.

i also have ebc greenstuff pads and penrite sin brake fluid. the brakes go really good at the moment and i can thrash it all day at sprints till the rotors are almost glowing and still cant notice much brake fade.

for wheels i have 15" ce28 replicas with 195x50x15 potenza re001 tyres

My gearbox crunches in third and i really want a type r box so i can get the good gearing and the lsd in one hit... the other option is to pull apart my gearbox and replace the syncros and put an lsd in it but im real nervous about it... i dont wanna wreck it lol. is there any gearbox retoration threads getting around that anyone knows of that i can use?

ive also got a lightweight flywheel and gonna get a exedy heavy duty sports clutch.

my shifter is real dodgy... the shift linkages are just cut and welded stinge bucket ones and it makes gearchanges really sloppy. if anyone knows where you can get off the shelf shift linkages for a b series ed civic it would be great if they could share.

[Lukezen27]

I have close the same setup as FastFwd

MFactory LSD
Exedy Sports organic clutch
ITR Brakes
TEIN SS Coilovers

Light weight flywheel is a waste of time on a boosted Honda IMO

All this stuff makes a huge difference in getting power to the ground and also stopping that power

You need a DC2/EG6 shift linkage bra

[FastFwd]

Ok dont be scared to open the box yourself. I opened mine for the first time and replaced my LSD with the Mfactory one. I accidently droped the gear shaft and all of the gears and sincro's fell apart and i was thinking how the fek would i put all this back together. Found a workshop manual on the net and i just had the order and i just placed it back together and its fine.

Theres alot of small tricky things when opening the gearbox which i had problems with but i got a video off stefan (zeforce) which he also used. Its a step by step guide into replacing gears and change the LSD in a b series box.

Im pretty sure all the b16 series boxes are similar in make but the only difference is the gear ratio's in some. I have been told that the tyre R ratios are alot smaller and are good for track but not for drag.

You might be better off just getting an LSD and some new syncro's. Will be alot cheaper than buying a type R box.

[FastFwd]

I have close the same setup as FastFwd

MFactory LSD
Exedy Sports organic clutch
ITR Brakes
TEIN SS Coilovers

Lightw weight flywheel is a waste of time on a boosted Honda IMO

All this stuff makes a huge difference in getting power to the ground and also stopping that power

You need a DC2/EG6 shift linkage bra

I got the race series clutch luke...i was too scared to go sports organic cos my last clutch was organic and i didnt have much luck with it.

race series not as bitchy to drive daily as people said it would be.

[FastFwd]

But yeh brad the Mfactory has worked well for me so far. when i boost it up to 20+ and theres 220kw atw's ill see how it holds up then but for now at 10psi its running fine.

[Lukezen27]

I got the race series clutch luke...i was too scared to go sports organic cos my last clutch was organic and i didnt have much luck with it.

race series not as bitchy to drive daily as people said it would be.

Yeah I had the MFactory race clutch that lasted less than 2000km so I've gone the other way lol

Plus I hated the drive

I've cheated though as I'm using the MFactory presure plate with the organic clutch plate

[FastFwd]

Yeah I had the MFactory race clutch that lasted less than 2000km so I've gone the other way lol

Plus I hated the drive

Yeh that was a b1tch for you hey...it annoyed me reading your threads about it.

I had fidanza sports organic before. US brand but i will only stay with exedy from now on.

Yeh i could imagine that people would hate the ride of my clutch but im not easily annoyed.

[Limbo]

i also had the link but i didn't do it cos i didn't wanna get dirty
Also hanny's did mine cheap