I have been reading up on and turbos and it seems to me that turbos only help medium to top end right? So it really be impratical or not every beneficial if you don’t keep it above atleast 3000rpm. I just want to know if there are any benefits for normal econmy driving.
well if you get a decent sized turbo listk most ppl do then yes, most power will be found int he mid and top end. But picknig your turbo to your driving style has a big aprt of it. You could slap a 14B turbo on your car nad have nice low end. or a nice ball bearing turbo.
correct me if i’m wrong but the TSI Extreme Kits on www.turbo-kits.com, have the Ball Bearing T25, so it should spool up insanely fast, and have virtually not lag, and should pull well to redline, and have a linear powerband, or at least that’s how this T25 on my friends CRX is and it’s not even Ball Bearing!
mine isnt turbo yet but ive red a lot… as for the t25 its a really small turbo, maybe full boost under 7lbs at 3k. But man i dont think you want that turbo on a daily driven with more boost cause youll be spinning all the time, and as for fuel economy… real bad! My best choice is a T3-60 wich goes fully boosted at maybe 3500… and will not run out of breath. Dont forget to get equal lenght manifold this makes you gain maybe 500rpm boost launch.
As for fuel economy, if you dont play much with throttle, you’ll get maybe 11L/100km on street and 7 on highway (pretty efficient while cruising!)
this is what the srt-4 does with td04 (similar to the the t28). Hope this helps…
7 street, 11 highway? Dude, the SRT-4 gets 22 city and 30 highway. Check it out for yourself on www.fueleconomy.org. Stock, the Integra gets 25 and 31. So how could a turbo really affect your gas mileage that bad?
Lol dood you’rs getting WAY too bad gas mileage. I jsut got 500kms to a tank without heavy ripping. with ripping/racing I get 400. LOL. somethings wrong with your setup.
You guys are arguing between liters/gallons and miles/kilometers.
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an equal length manifold will INCREASE spool time. a LOG mani will DECREASE spool time.
well a gain is usually something you want, unless is weight. So my point, 500rpm gain is 500rpm less… 
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oh and i live in Quebec wich is KM per 100km for fuel consumption…
many people GAIN mpg with turbos actually. mainly while cruising. 1 or 2mpg, or nothing. of course when you need power, power needs fuel, so that will undoubtedly drop. maybe half or so depending on the setup and person?
anywho, these will be easy to understand and the least of your concerns once you are serious about building your setup. Maximum Boost explains all this, so the next step is to pick up that book. RTFMB! good luck.
im running a fairly large turbo on my b18b, a t3/t4 57 trim .63 turbine a/r. 10 psi hits at a little over 4k rpms, and below 3k i dont see any boost. id honestly rather have it like this for daily driving. my last setup had a smaller turbo and i would go into boost just going up hills in my area, that became annoying and was killing my mpg, cause i would boost no matter what. normal driving i see around 22-25 mpg, but when i get on it, them damn 550cc injectors do a good job of emptying my fuel tank