Afher some fun with the turbo acura el my budy finnaly got it painted and it sold just under 3k. He already had his mind set for a turbo d16 but this time, the goal is in the 500 whp range.

so the main idea behind this car is light chassi, built engine/tranny, big turbo (for this engine anyways) and lots of fun.
not sure on witch management system to use yet.

the weapon of choice is a 1990 honda civic hatch, witch had been striped, roll bared, had rear disc conversion and after market suspension installed by the previous owner.
the shell was bought with a bunch of parts and goodies. i say shell but its a complete running car.
the turbo has also been purchased
sry about the shitty pictures they are a cut from phone screenshots

do you have a flip phone?
monster energy racing, bro

gl!

why no b swap? the d series is a TON of work to hit 500 hp, might as well do that much work on a worthy motor in my eyes. And a b18 is only $400-500 for a lower mileage one. And 150 for mounts.

this always come up, the d series is way cheaper in the end no mater how you look at it.


haha no the pics are screen shot my budy sent me trough text message and i zoomed them to crop out all the other stuff

Why no K swap?

Not trying to make 500 hp no.. Yes a d series is cheaper to make 200-300 but when you start getting to 500 whp where the d series will start to top out you are talking serious cash.. The b series will get there a lot easier and cheaper in the end. Make a post on the d series forum to see how much this is actually going to cost you to make 500 whp out of a d swap.

This post was edited by DuckManParkey on Dec 13 2015 11:15am

Jesse would be proud.

nah a vitara build on a d16 will get you 500whp easy and cheap

Wont be easy, will have to go to a really good tuner.

I dunno if they are having the internal work and such done at a shop, and having it professionally tuned. i don't get why you would skip on on just spending a little bit more and having much more potential. Since all the motor work and tuning will cost the same. Why not spend 2000 more to have a built b series that will hit 500 whp a lot easier than a d16.. And have a lot more potential to go even higher.

He has the turbo already also, and for 500 whp with decent spool he is going to want a gt30 turbo to make 500 with an equal length turbo manifold.

OP what turbo did you end up getting? What tuning software you going with?

we dont know wat we are getting for tuning software yet but we will tune it ourselves, the first build went way better then we tough.
the turbo is 63/68 garret gt35 82r with tial vband exhaust side.
the manifold seems to be some weld it yourselft kit i dont know about.
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