turbo my stock CRX HF - stupid or a good project?
05-13-2007, 03:05 PM
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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?
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?
05-13-2007, 04:13 PM
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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!
05-13-2007, 07:59 PM
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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
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
05-13-2007, 08:55 PM
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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...
05-13-2007, 09:32 PM
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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.
