ive been a long time lingerer of g2ic. im usually over at homemadeturbo.com or honda-tech. i got love for the g2 integra, and i’ve been turboed now for about 6 months.
stock b18a 157k original miles
airesearch t3 .42 .48 w/ internal wastegate @ 5psi
custom manifold cheapturbolines.com oil line kit
sequential BOV w/ 2.5 inch charge pipes
3 inch downpipe, carsound high flow cat, thermal 3 inch catback exhaust
walbro 255lph & b&m FPR/FPG
hawker battery w/ bungee tiedowns :giggle:
civic half size single core radiator w/ slimfan
cheap bar and plate intercooler
street tuned with turbo edit
best e/t 14.2 @100MPH w/ 2.1 60 footer, this was before it was tuned.
my plans for this car in the coming month is a fresh new head- (3 angle valve job, resurfaced, all new gaskets, skunk2 intake mani, 64mm bored throttle body, more boost .
hopefully my stock block will handle a few more pounds of boost before it blows.
yes im pretty sure it is. i pulled that turbo off a saab9000 (i had the turbo rebuilt) and right by it was a turboed volvo. i decided to take the emblem and stick it on my car.
i know it doesn’t go along with the sleeper look, but when people see the FMIC and hear the BOV, they know its not a sleeper anymore… heh
thats just beautiful, gotta love those blades and your block can take 10-12 psi safely so dont worry, as long as u got a good tune and running a little rich like 12:1 (max) a/f ratio. I am gathering my parts so next spring i can put my kit in too. I have a few questions. Does your car overheat with that rad? I see u ripped out A/C as well. How did u run your intercooler piping on the hot side? and I just love where u put the battery. Whats the size of the battery u used? is it big like a civic battery? I got ABS so I dont know if I that can work for me as well but sure worth a try.
12:1 is not very rich…A good tuner will probably push a little leaner than that, but that’s about as lean as I personally go on my car. And lets not get into another “how much psi can a stock motor handle” argument. We should all know that the limitation is power by now.
Either way though, real nice and clean looking setup. Did you make the manifold? I didn’t even think of doing a design like that when we made mine. We made a 4 into 1 collector which was a huge bitch.
18 Oct 2005 14:14:52
busted B18 thats just beautiful, gotta love those blades and your block can take 10-12 psi safely so dont worry, as long as u got a good tune and running a little rich like 12:1 (max) a/f ratio. I am gathering my parts so next spring i can put my kit in too. I have a few questions. Does your car overheat with that rad? I see u ripped out A/C as well. How did u run your intercooler piping on the hot side? and I just love where u put the battery. Whats the size of the battery u used? is it big like a civic battery? I got ABS so I dont know if I that can work for me as well but sure worth a try.
I hear the stock b18a/b blocks can handle up to 14 psi safely, but do remember my engine has 157k miles on the stock block so im sure its more prone to spinning a rod bearing or such. You also need a bigger mapsensor to run more than 11 or 12 psi i think.
For some reason the relay for my fan never seemed to work so i have a toggle switch hooked up for the fan. It has never overheated with the fan on, but if i forget to turn it on during stop and go traffic, it will definately creep up. I’m hoping with the cold weather it will help keep the temps down. I think im gonna try to get some water wetter and see if that helps.
the piping comes off the outlet of the turbo into a 90 of rubber exhaust tubing into a 180 ubend, and it circles up right past the windshield wiper reservoir. had to cut some metal on the front of the car, not much.
the battery is actually a powerful marine battery, i forget how many amps it puts out, if you’re interested ill try and find where i found that. it cost me about 60 bucks with 2 terminals.
There are huge threads on here concerning what our stock block can handle. I hate bringing this up, but I hate even more when I see misinformed people putting a psi limitation on engine durability. It’s HP that causes suff to break, so depending on the turbo and setup it’s a different given boost pressure that achieves that power.
I also had the same problem with my fan relay. I just hard wired mine direction to the ignition, so it’s on whenever the car is on.
The marine battery is an interesting idea. I have a friend who uses a lawnmower battery with no problems at all. I’m cautious to go with that idea, but this battery lasted him 2 years through cold new england winters.
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