turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

So my dad is letting me have his CRX HF. I was originally going to put a jdm d15 or a z6 in it, but I've been reading these forums a lot lately and now I'm itching to turbo it. I want to do it on the CHEEEAP (like 750), and was thinking about turboing the stock HF motor (d15b7). Once I get a working turbo setup, swap in a zc or si tranny/good clutch and have some fun. I'm not looking to post monster numbers, but I'm ready to put a hmt setup together and learn a little.

Before I turbo this car, I'm going to do compression/leakdown test to see if the engine is healthy enough for FI. If the numbers are too shitty, I can swap in a good motor instead of boosting.

Since I'm going uber low budget, I'm going to go to ebay for pretty much everything but the turbo/adapter plate for hf manifold.

Sound like a good/cheap/fun project, or a waste of time?

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

do it anything can be boosted

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

Boost it, find a D16A6 and swap it in when your ---- blows. ;)

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

glad you two agree with me. I was also thinking that a short-geared tranny would make more of a difference than going from the d15b7 to the a6 would. As long as i don't get horrible comp/leakdown numbers, turbo it is!

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

boost it, you can easily do it for 750

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

boost the 62 hp motor and make 80 hp



Those 8 valve heads are hot

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

thanks for the support! I guess I should also get drag radials to handle the massive power.

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

You dont need drag radials

Your clutch is probably going to be ther first thing to go, Id budget that in, throw a stage 2 in there from gripforce on ebay and youre set for $140

Boost it forsure, but dont expect much

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

My mom has a 90 model, and I want that car so bad it's not funny...It's really clean, I think it has like 170k miles...She makes good money and I'm always trying to talk her into gettin' a hot new ride, but she loves her rex. Hell, as good as it runs and with gas prices being what they are, I can't really blame her...I would definitely swap the car to multi-point injection, but other than that, hell you don't even have to fab up or buy a manifold...

Re: turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
 

I was joking about the drag radials, I'm expecting very little. I just want to turbo something, and this is what I got. If i put in a new clutch, the HF tranny is gone though. The gears in that tranny are long as hell.