I’ve been planning and collecting parts for around 10 months now, and I’ve finally started putting it together.
Stock LS B18A
Custom stainless tubular manifold
DSM 14b turbo
JRC 8" FMIC
Custom IC piping
Custom exhaust
DSM 1g BOV
Oil line kit from Stan on H-T
J&S Safeguard
12" Slim fan
DSM 450cc injectors
Walbro 190 in tank fuel pump
Uberdata
Bilstein struts
Neuspeed springs
Solid motormounts
I’ve worked on it for 2 short days so far and I have the intercooler test fitted and tacked in place, cold side of IC piping tacked together, part of the hot side tacked together, and the fitting welded on oil pan. I did the injectors, fuel pump, and ecu chipping a few months back, so all of that stuff is out of the way, as well as the suspension, safeguard, and gauges.
I’ll get some pics posted up tonight or tomorrow, and hopefully it will be running midweek.
Sounds like yo going to have a good setup what what it is… I have almost the same setup and i put down 231Whp… Just besure to be ready for having to cut the crossmember if you dont have a full-race crossmember… And you plan on using thwe stock o2 housing for the 14b
Yea I already knew that I’d have to but the cross member so I’m prepared.
Up to now I’ve gotten the intercooler permanantly mounted, all of the IC piping tacked in place, slim fan mounted to be a pusher and oil lines plumbed. Hopefully it will be up and running on wednesday as I planned, possibly with or without a full exhaust.
Any more pointers from here on or things that I should be looking out for?
There isn’t much to take pics or right now since stuff is just tacked together, but I’ll get some as soon as I can. I’ve been on here and honda-tech for a long time reading up on peoples projects and looking at their pics for ideas, so I’m more than willing to post up whatever I can to help everybody else out.
The cold side of the IC piping was easy and went together quick, since I just basically followed the route of a cold air intake. The hot side was alot more difficult. I have the compressor side of the turbo on the passenger’s side, and the outlet faces up , so I ran a J-pipe off of that, and then straight across and had to cut through the frame(which was a HUGE bitch to cut through).
Besides that problem, everything has gone together really easily. Notching out the crossmember is pretty much the only difficult thing I see left in the project. Everything else SHOULD go smoothly.
I’d like to thank all of the more experienced guys on here who have threads with alot of good info and the turbo guide as well. There’s alot of good information around here.
Haha nice. I did that too and man oh man. Used a hole saw and industrial drill and went at it like mad. Although I cried for a while after I broke through the first layer only to hit a second layer of metal… lol :gunright:
I unfortunately didn’t have a big hole saw, or ride to go buy one, so I cut 4 holes with a small hole saw, and went at it with a sawzall…and also realized that there was a second wall to go through. Looks crappy but oh well. I’ll grind it down and throw some touch up pain on it.
I really wanted to run it down through the hole where the freon canister was, but the stupid power steering lines were in the way(which I was close to ditching but decided to keep).
Today’s plans are to run the vacuum lines, mount and wire the knock sensor, and start on the exhaust.
I just got the car running tonight. It’s just running with an open downpipe right now, but everything else is together and I got a chip burned at put it.
Car started up and ran fine on first try. I have a leak at my oil return, but I should be able to fix that easily. Besides that, everything seemed great. Tomorrow I need to pain my IC piping, set up the J&S, fix the leak and get it out for some driving.
So I got everything together and went out for a drive today, but I still have some work left to do. One of my intercooler pipes pops off as soon as the engine torques because it’s clamped on part of a bend, so I have to fix that. I also have an oil leak no related to the turbo at all that’s pretty bad. And my radiator sprung a bad leak and sprays coolant everywhere and overheats. Sooo I have some work left before I can boost.
Figured I’d give an update on my status. I got the new radiator installed, and finally got my charge pipe to stay on. The oil pan gasket is still leaking, but I’ll take care of that sometime soon.
We got it out for a drive today on a guestimate of a basechip and just made a couple of pulls. It’s not getting boost until sometime around 4000 which I’m attributing to tuning, but either way it still felt fast as hell. Tonight we’ll be out and with the wideband and getting it tuned
If you ever need tuning help…I am originally from the Watertown area so I make it up through Syracuse quite often if you wanted to set something up when you were all done.
Unfortunately I’m in MA for school right now and won’t be home for awhile. But luckily I have a friend here that is pretty good with tuning. Thanks alot for the offer though!
I could use an opinion on something though. At full throttle pulls, it’s only reaching 5psi, and not until well after 4000 rpm. We’re thinking that the wastegate is hanging open a bit and/or there’s alot of boost leaks. What do you think?
I’ll get it pressure tested in the next few days and see if we can eliminate boost leaks.
It’s the stock 9 psi spring in the wastegate. I have a manual boost controller that is sourced from a 1/4" vacuum line on the front of the intake manifold. I’m not positive in the BOV is functioning properly. It’s just a 1g DSM that I bougth super cheap. Any good way to tell if it’s working right? It sounds alot different than any DSM BOV I’ve heard.
Hopefully pressure testing will tell me alot. My boost gauge jumps right up to 0 psi, but doesnt start building any boost until after 4000, and hits about 5psi at redline. Any other suggestions? I really need to get this car running decently since it’s my daily driver.
how did u get the car to run with the 450cc injectors before the turbo was installed? when i did that, my ecu went into limp mode. also, what does that fuel pump do, exactly?
The fuel pump flows more than the stock one, so it is able to feed the larger injectors. Stock injectors are 240 cc/min whereas I’m running 450 cc/min, so they need alot more fuel.
Looks like he already converted